Comment from John Doe
Drone Co.OpposeIndividual
Summary: The commenter argues that the proposed regulations are overly restrictive and will stifle the commercial drone industry by maintaining visual line-of-sight requirements. They suggest that the rules are excessive compared to other transportation technologies and advocate for easing these restrictions to allow for viable commercial use cases like long-distance transport.
This law is absurdly restrictive within the context commercial use. The purpose of using a drone commercially is to transport things cheaper than via human actuated transportation, which necessitates travel beyond visual line-of-sight. How is it that an agency of government with analogous responsibilities to FAA is willing to experiment with driver-less cars, which is an exponentially more dangerous, while the FAA is too afraid to allow drones the same privilege? The way this law is construed does not encourage any serious commercial use of drones. In fact it appears the only thing one could compliantly use a drone for is delivery of beverages at a lemonade stand. Further more, how is it that you have already found 42,000 pages worth regulatory need for a brand new product. Thank God the FAA didn't exist when the first commercial flight took place otherwise we'd have ever gotten off the ground. If you want commercial drone flight to be a legitimate line of business you need to ease off of the Visual line-of-sight requirement other wise you will kill the industry before it ever begins, or you will make criminals of entrepreneurs.