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             Newcome (2004) wrote a brief introduction into the history of the unmanned aerial vehicles, what people in the popular culture call drones. He writes about how children’s rubber band toys, where you twist the propellers of an object that is connected to a rubber band and it flies, and how similar that is to the new designs for UAV technology. He discusses further that that the “aerial torpeido” was the beginnings of today’s unmanned missiles.



             One major benefit is the ability to keep better track of environmental changes. UAVs are currently being used to track deforestation and asses changes in forest cover. The areas where species are inhabiting. They are even being used to test for greenhouse gas emissions (Koh & Wich, n.d.). Another major use for these drones is photography. These are being used as tools for photos of cities, landmasses, and other aerial view images. The photos are helpful in things like river photographs, seeing where a river is flowing (Flener et al., 2013). The pictures are really helpful in other ways too, they are used in military actions to take pictures of places that military troops need to go or need to be sure that things are normal in a location they do not want to go. This is where things get more complicated, with this great positive nature, the power is too great for it not to have a negative alternative.



             When survey, a majority of the Australian public did not see the technology of drones more “unsafe, risky, beneficial, or threatening” than the manned versions (Clothier, Greer, Greer, & Mehta, 2015). There are many that believe that the new tactics will bring about an era of intense war. The questions that surround us are on the subject of what limitations are there on UAV usage. Overseas in militaristic actions, it saves soldiers’ lives, but here in the United States, many believe it usage can put people more in harm’s way as terrorist tactics can be easier to implement, as well as the right to privacy written in the constitution (Kaminski, 2013). What kind of limitation are there on police usage of UAVs? Because they are an emerging technology, there really is not a lot of oversight into this area (Kreps & Kaag, 2012).