Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by desdiv 4140 days ago
No one - not a single person as far as I can tell - in the community calls them "drones"...

It's not entirely unanimous though. A popular UAV community site is called http://diydrones.com/

This is analogous to the euphemism treadmill. Pretty soon "UAV" will become too dangerous sounding and the community will switch to another label.
1 comments
nakedrobot2 4140 days ago
Yes you're right, lots of beginners are coming over from "the public" and still call them drones.... And there are a lot more of them than experienced RC folks.... so I'm guessing that maybe the word "drone" will grudgingly be accepted.

Yes, lots of blogs and sites with "drone" in the domain name... part of our google-seo world I think.

link