DJI ViewPoints Team Weighs Cost of Banning its Drones in America.

[The Droning Company]

Don’t Ground Innovation

 

[Felix le Chat]

This is an old chestnut I'm familiar with.

Step #1. Set a deadline with the stipulation that if the action isn't completed by that deadline: consequences are automatic.

Step #2. Bring the responsibility for undertaking the action into the bureaucratic system and fail to allocate an appropriate body to undertake that required action for the first six months.

Step #3. Pass the buck from one department to another for the next six months until the deadline passes.

Step #4. Pass it off as an administrative error but still blame the manufacturer for non compliance.

Step #5. Issue the blanket ban you were intent on enforcing in the first place.

 

[GadgetGuy]

This is an old chestnut I'm familiar with.

Step #1. Set a deadline with the stipulation that if the action isn't completed by that deadline: consequences are automatic.

Step #2. Bring the responsibility for undertaking the action into the bureaucratic system and fail to allocate an appropriate body to undertake that required action for the first six months.

Step #3. Pass the buck from one department to another for the next six months until the deadline passes.

Step #4. Pass it off as an administrative error but still blame the manufacturer for non compliance.

Step #5. Issue the blanket ban you were intent on enforcing in the first place.

Yup. Pretty much a forgone conclusion now. DJI realizes it, too! Only 30 days to complete the audit guarantees no opportunity for completeness and response and further investigation. It is very difficult to prove a negative without a lengthy, exhaustive investigation.

"We conducted the audit, and couldn't prove no security risk within 30 days, so there is still a risk present. Besides, we are fairly certain DJI's innovation and low pricing presents an economic threat to the US because they are so much better than we are. So, we are shutting them down in the U.S. QED."

 

[Felix le Chat]

Yup. Pretty much a forgone conclusion now. DJI realizes it, too! Only 30 days to complete the audit guarantees no opportunity for completeness and response and further investigation. It is very difficult to prove a negative without a lengthy, exhaustive investigation.

"We conducted the audit, and couldn't prove no security risk within 30 days, so there is still a risk present. Besides, we are fairly certain DJI's innovation and low pricing presents an economic threat to the US because they are so much better than we are. So, we are shutting them down in the U.S. QED."

Take heart in the fact that American drone owners will not be the only ones to suffer... You're just heading down the path a bit in advance of us on the other side of the pond. The "...special relationship..." guarantees that whoever is supposed to run Britain will roll over and follow suit as soon as HMV shouts "...HEEL!...".