On 05 Dec 2003 18:21:56 -0800, Bob Fry wrote:

"Jay Honeck" writes:

What next?

- Robotic aircraft flying around US airspace---it's YOUR
responsibility to see and avoid.

- Robotic aircraft flying around foreign airspace launching missles at
the hand of a 19-year old kid back in Florida. Who cares if he
makes a mistakes, they're all gooks anyway, right?

-Nanotechnology gone awry. Oops, shoulda tested that one a little
more thoroughly...it goes berserker inside people with too much/not
enough hormones/white cells/red cells/whatever

etc.

OK. What wil it take to enact a law that makes a unmanned drone's
controlling agency automatically liable for any midair "incident" or
collateral damage ?