At least initially - merry Christmas, exactly. And I haven't gone through all 300 pages of this yet, but my sense is that. RULE: I think in the short run, it contemplates there being some limitation on who would be able to access this drone-tracking system. SHAPIRO: Is this something that only officials would be able to identify? Or if there's a drone flying over my house, would I be able to, like, point my smartphone at it and find out who it belongs to? But I do think, you know, technologically, that this is absolutely feasible. So there's a lot of people who will have to take that step. I think there's roughly 1.5 million registered drones in the United States already through the FAA. And of course, it's going to be a bit of a hassle and inconvenience for all of those millions of people who have already bought a drone. RULE: I do think this is going to be pretty easy to retrofit onto existing drones. SHAPIRO: Would it be pretty easy to modify a drone to put in this technology? Or if somebody has an old technology, are they going to have to buy a whole new drone? So it's no longer necessary to actually physically have the drone in your hands to tell who owns it. The difference here is that now the drone that's operating up in the sky will have something that will be sending a signal that is going to transmit information about who is operating that drone.
RULE: The difference here is that before, you were required to put something on the drone, physically on the ground so that if the drone fell out of the sky and landed in your backyard or landed on private property, that the finder of that drone would be able to look and identify who its owner was. Why did the FAA decide it needed to go farther? SHAPIRO: There was already a regulation since 2015 requiring most drones to be registered. RULE: Well, the most important part of this is that going forward in the next few years, every drone that's larger than 250 grams, or a little over half a pound, is going to have to have some sort of identification or tracking system on it that would allow the FAA or law enforcement or others to identify who is operating the drone, which of course, makes tons of sense because otherwise there's no way to tell who owns that drone that's flying above your backyard. SHAPIRO: This proposal is more than 300 pages long, so give us a couple highlights. Troy Rule studies drones at Arizona State University's Law School. Yesterday, the Federal Aviation Administration proposed new regulations that would require almost all drones to have technology allowing them to be tracked at all times.
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