{"id":13521,"date":"2015-02-20T03:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13521"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:07:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:07:24","slug":"42-percent-of-americans-are-wrong-about-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/42-percent-of-americans-are-wrong-about-drones","title":{"rendered":"42 Percent of Americans Are Wrong About Drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/authors.faine_greenwood.html\" rel=\"author\">Faine Greenwood<\/a> \u2014 Slate<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"text text-1 parbase section\">Drones are inescapable in today\u2019s media, whether they\u2019re crashing on the White House lawn, soaring over bubbling Icelandic volcanoes, or being sold at the mall as a hot gift. And as a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipsos-na.com\/download\/pr.aspx?id=14209\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters\/Ipsos online poll found<\/a>, when it comes to drones, many Americans are certifiably creeped-out. A remarkable 42 percent of respondents said that they disapprove of the ownership of drones by private citizens. It\u2019s clear this new industry has a PR problem\u2014and if average Americans aren\u2019t convinced that drones can be a force for good, a promising new area of technological advancement could potentially be stopped in its tracks.<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-2 text parbase section\">\n<p>The poll of 2,405 Americans demonstrated that many people harbor \u201cnot in my backyard\u201d sentiments when it comes to drones: Seventy-one percent said drones should not be permitted to operate over the property of others, while 64 percent said they hope their neighbors <em>won\u2019t <\/em>add drone flying to their list of weekend pursuits.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/technology\/future_tense\/2015\/02\/reuters_ipsos_poll_shows_42_percent_of_americans_support_private_drone_ban.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Faine Greenwood \u2014 Slate Drones are inescapable in today\u2019s media, whether they\u2019re crashing on the White House lawn, soaring over bubbling Icelandic volcanoes, or being sold at the mall as a hot gift. And as a recent Reuters\/Ipsos online poll found, when it comes to drones, many Americans are certifiably creeped-out. A remarkable 42 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46615,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13521\/revisions\/46615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}