And peace broke out all over the world

“The Department of State issued its ‘Joint Declaration for the Export and Subsequent Use of Armed or Strike-Enabled Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)’ on Oct. 5, and it’s been signed by 45 supporting nations. The declaration stipulates that the international community ‘must take appropriate transparency measures to ensure the responsible export and subsequent use of these systems.’”

http://breakingdefense.com/2016/10/states-new-armed-drone-policy-confuses-ends-with-means/?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=35694125&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8p4EBsRk0Zlru6MSv2WRN2ufYtehbJOHlhG3OGzShqW0T2o-nEIZZ-QWDmZfzzZ1sndJ-EW5akp_RFlLHt-wrB9BqpZA&_hsmi=35694125


“Many U.S. allies such as Britain, Germany and Australia were among the countries that signed the declaration released by the U.S. State Department.

“France, Israel, Brazil, Russia and China, among other countries, did not sign …”

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-drones-idUSKCN1252IG

(Interesting that the U.S., which invades the air space of other countries and uses more drones to kill more people than all other users combined, comes up with an end-use piece of paper.)

Wow! This UAV does really neat stuff!

What about the human interface?

Oh, we’ll fix that later.

“Many presenters at the workshop were looking at intelligent software agents that could take some of the burden of directing unmanned systems off the shoulders of the human operator. The solution that seemed to excite the panelists the most was the idea of giving the robots a ‘playbook,’ a set of standard responses to common situations that the human operator could invoke when appropriate, like a coach or quarterback having a football team run plays.”

http://defense.aol.com/2012/08/07/too-many-screens-why-drones-are-so-hard-to-fly-and-so-easy