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DJI voluntarily created its geofencing feature, so it makes a certain degree of sense that the company would get rid of it now that the US government no longer seems to appreciate its help, is blocking some of its drone imports, calls DJI a “Chinese Military Company,” and has started the countdown clock on a de facto import ban.

That sounds exactly like how Trump does business, tit for tat and quid pro quos.. thats also why Zuck is acting out - gonna be a wild 4 years

They were about the only hobbyist level drone manufacturer that was doing any sort of geofencing at all. Unsurprising they stopped when none of the other companies saw repercussions for not doing it.

I kinda hate this. What I'd really like is the option to turn it on or off. I live near an airport airspace boundary and it's nice to have that wall keeping me from straying into airspace I'm not authorized for, but at the same time, sometimes the drone freezes and won't come back, so it'd be great to be able to get full control back temporarily.

Their reasoning is to give responsibility back to the pilot. A responsible pilot might want that guard rail. Having it as an option only makes sense.

So, just like how pretty much every other drone manufacturers drones already work. Somehow people only give DJI shit over this and develop a curious blind spot about everybody else.

It is trivially easy for anyone with thumbs to kit-build a drone with no regulatory compliance whatsoever, in nearly any size, with absurd range and capabilities, for just a few hundred dollars. Despite that state of affairs having been the case for years, this has mysteriously failed to cause the Earth to fall out of its orbit into the sun.

You know, they've been dropping a lot of ordinance with cobbled together drones in Ukraine. Just sayin, for no reason in particular reason.

This will last exactly as long as it takes somebody to fly a drone into the side of the White House. Not any kind of special drone, just some idiot trying to get a cool shot for their YouTube channel.

Replace the plastic blades with sharpened metal ones, and you got yourself an anti-personnel terrorism machine.

I don’t see how this could go wrong…

This is a weird response to the drone hysteria in New Jersey.