Drones

Dr_Colossus

Decent impartial article for once from the Independent

https://www.independent.ie/regionals/dublin/dublin-news/stop-flying-over-our-homes-dublin-15-residents-push-back-against-drones/a884680005.html

daymobrew

I don't think the article is very impartial - Seamus is a member of the Drone Action group and I think that his counting of drones is suspect.

The sound in the TikTok footage sounds boosted. Why don't people opposing download a decibel meter app and post impartial results.

blanch152

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123927018#Comment_123927018

Some of the claims are strange.

Domestic Cats are a bigger threat to wildlife yet nobody is proposing to ban them.

Then they claim that priority is being given to drone operaters over the needs of local communities, but if local communities didn't need or want drone delivery, there wouldn't be drones.

A lack of intellectual rigour in the article.

Ash.J.Williams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123698739#Comment_123698739

What if you're lashin the missus out if it out by the bins?

Jacketpotato

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123928085#Comment_123928085

I mean, it says he lives near to a site, so you would see more from all the sites drones criss crossing compared to somebody on the outskirts. 25 journeys up and back over a day doesnt sound ridiculous as a media soundbite of the peak worst case scenario on a weekend during game-day events which is the example being talked about in the article. This summer it was a right issue.

Audio quality gets compressed and pick up some sounds more than others. record yourself and listen back to your voice while the kettle is on. You will sound different, the kettle won't be as noticeable either. And i doubt a free app would be accurate to stand over the results for much the same reason.

I would be just as skeptical of the company though, they have every reason to want to downplay the noise and exposure complaints and seem to regularly do so if you read other news article. Again a lot of this criticism around disturbance and scale up fears would be avoided if they didn't just fly straight over a line of estates back gardens and all, its shooting themselves in the foot. Alternatives would still present its own problems if scaled up significantly but the big criticism seems to be how they operate and the noise or privacy from that during both fly over and nearby delivery.

RoryMac

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123927018#Comment_123927018

I stopped reading at cul-de-sacs, the correct plural is culs-de-sac

If they can't get the basics right, how can we trust them