[alcuadrado]

Missiles? What if in that 1-second latency a car full of innocent people appear and they get killed?

[noir_lord]

Then that would be "collateral damage" which is such a lovely euphemism for "we blew a bunch of innocent civilians to chowder but hey we are the good guys".

[eCa]

There are two latencies:

* For the fire order from the command central to the drone.

* For the missile from drone to target.

I'd guess the later is greater than the former.

> and they get killed?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateral_damage

[olympus]

It's not so much a latency issue but a field of view issue. Cars don't really go that fast and you'll see them coming way ahead of time as long as your camera is zoomed out far enough. There are procedures in place to reduce the amount of stuff like this happening, but they haven't always been in place and they don't work 100%. But it's not like it's an issue that nobody has ever thought of, it was happening even before the rise of the drones: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grdelica_train_bombing

[jfoutz]

Well, If you're Bryant you feel bad. Reddit tears you apart. It's a pretty thought provoking article. I thought it was worth reading, at least.

[TsiCClawOfLight]

Those missiles are laser-guided, and the Drone flies following way-points. The only time were the latency actually comes into effect is between the firing order and the actual launch - Hellfires are F&F.