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While american cities are a nightmare to walk, I feel like this is a bad example, like his complaints are that the pavement is next to a road and he needs to walk a bit further to get into the park. This isn’t really unusual anywhere.
There’s giant areas of the US where there’s no pavements at all and there’s a lot of things you can’t walk to, like supermarkets or pharmacies, because your nearest one might be an hour or two walk away.
This article seems to be trying to make the use of drones seem ominous but that’s really simplistic. A drone is a tool. They talk about flying drones over large gatherings but before drones they’d just have a dude with a camera go up a tall building.
When there’s large gatherings it can be helpful to spot crowd surges or crushes to be able to see things.
Of course these things are open to abuse, but how many cases of abuse have we seen with basic police on foot?
It’s not the technology we should be worrying about but the officers who are abusive.