- Title: Drone experts say rules difficult to create, implement
- Date: 20th April 2016
- Summary: MAKUHARI, JAPAN (APRIL 20, 2016) (REUTERS) INTERNATIONAL DRONE EXHIBITION SIGN READING (Japanese and English): "INTERNATIONAL DRONE EXPO" DEMONSTRATION OF FLYING DRONE DRONE READY FOR FLYING DRONE FLYING MAN CONTROLLING DRONE DRONE FLOATING IN AIR (SOUNDBITE) (English) RESEARCHER AT NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS, ARTUR GONCALVES, SAYING: "I guess it would be really hard. You could try to implement some kind of restricted zone and then every drone would have to avoid itself in that zone but then people would just work around that system and hack their own drone so it would be really hard to technologically prevent the drones from flying over a certain area." DRONE (SOUNDBITE) (English) RESEARCHER AT NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS, ANDRE HOLLIDAY, SAYING: "Obviously, this a technology that can and has the potential to be dangerous so you have to set some kind of rules about how people can use and where people can use it. At the same time we don't want to restrict people's ability to, first of all, to innovate and second of all just to exercise their basic rights to do what they own with their own property. I think when we talk about these issues of regulation, things tend to get compressed, simplified view where we talk about is, is there too much or not enough regulation." DRONE AND SCREEN (SOUNDBITE) (English) ORGANIZER OF DRONE MEETUP TOKYO, VALENTINO KOBAYASHI, SAYING: "Drones are threat to airports, threats to personal safety, security and it's a very tough question so I cannot give any answer. How is government doing because it's really not an easy thing." VARIOUS OF DISPLAYED DRONES VARIOUS OF PEOPLE WALKING AT EXHIBITION
- Embargoed: 5th May 2016 11:36
- Keywords: drone rules airport London
- Location: MAKUHARI, JAPAN
- City: MAKUHARI, JAPAN
- Country: Japan
- Topics: Government/Politics
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- Story Text: Drone companies and experts at the Third International Drone Expo near Tokyo on Wednesday (April 20) struggled to think of ways to how best regulate drones in order to assure the safety and security of those nearby.
In the wake of a British Airways passenger aircraft hit by what most likely was a drone as it prepared to land at Britain's Heathrow Airport, there is increasing concern about the risks posed by the rise in civil drone use.
The possibilities of drones and their use are great, but some are wary of how binding regulations of flying unmanned aerial vehicles are although rules have been tightened the world over in response to safety concerns.
"I guess it would be really hard. You could try to implement some kind of restricted zone and then every drone would have to avoid itself in that zone but then people would just work around that system and hack their own drone so it would be really hard to technologically prevent the drones from flying over a certain area," said Artur Goncalves, 23-year-old researcher from Portugal now studying at National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo.
Others worry that governments may over simplify the issues and restrict drones too much.
"Obviously, this a technology that can and has the potential to be dangerous so you have to set some kind of rules about how people can use and where people can use it. At the same time we don't want to restrict people's ability to, first of all, to innovate and second of all just to exercise their basic rights to do what they own with their own property. I think when we talk about these issues of regulation, things tend to get compressed, simplified view where we talk about is, is there too much or not enough regulation," said Canadian Andre Holliday, also a researcher at the National Institute of Informatics.
"Drones are threat to airports, threats to personal safety, security and its very tough question so I cannot give any answer. How is government doing because it's really not an easy thing," added Valentino Kobayashi, organiser of Drone Meetup Tokyo.
In Japan, regulations have been tightened to ban drone flights in crowded residential areas, which include entire areas of Tokyo and other major cities, following an accident, where a drone was dropped on a roof of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's office building last year.
Police said the pilot of the BA flight from Geneva had reported that he believed a drone had struck the aircraft before it landed safely on Sunday (April 17) at Terminal 5.
Britain's Air Accidents Investigation Branch confirmed on Monday (April 18) that it had launched an investigation into an incident involving an unmanned air vehicle and a passenger aircraft at Heathrow, Europe's busiest airport. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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