The US is not keeping up with the technological advances made in small unmanned aerial vehicles - drones, and must update its regulations to ensure their safe use, US President Barack Obama said on Tuesday in his first comments on drones after one crashed on the Bijela field on Monday. houses.
Obama said that drones, if used properly, have the potential to enrich people in ways that were unimaginable just a decade ago. Now, the federal government needs to ensure that they are used safely in the US and do not invade privacy.
"We do not yet have a legal structure to regulate the use of drones both globally and within individual countries," Obama said in an interview with CNN, AP reported.
He said that part of his job in the last two years of the presidential mandate is to create a legal framework that will ensure the good side of using drones and minimize the bad.
The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency said Tuesday that the man who was flying the drone was an employee of theirs, that he did not work with them at work and that he was using it privately, off-duty. The agency stated that it takes the incident very seriously. The identity of the person who operated the drone has not been released.
That person from Washington has reported to the US Secret Service that he is responsible for the drone that crashed into the White House yard.
He then stated that he was using the drone recreationally and that he did not intend to send it over the White House, AP reported.
Secret Service spokesman Brian Leary previously announced that it was a "quadcopter", with four propellers, about half a meter wide.
According to Leary, the "quadcopter" was flying very low before crashing on the southeast side of the White House at XNUMX:XNUMX a.m. local time.
Obama and his wife Michelle were not in the White House at the time of the incident because they were in New Delhi, on an official visit to India.
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