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Qualcomm recently released a platform which has 5G and decent compute, which could be used for this. https://www.qualcomm.com/products/qualcomm-robotics-rb5-plat...

Likely would have to build some autonomy into the system to handle scenarios where the communication gets patchy or the user is about to crash into something.

Now you only need to install 5G on the Grand Canyon.

sit on the couch at home and fly through the Grand Canyon

And ruin it for everyone who actually spent the effort to go there in person.

This will be the reason they will start letting people bring shotguns to national parks.

Who's going to let random Internet users fly their very expensive drone?

I smell a SaaS ( or FlightaaS ) here!

This was actually a thing a couple years ago. I tried it out a couple times and it worked really well: https://www.flythere.com/

Basically the gave you a big "box" of air space that had 0 obstacles that you could fly around in. It's impossible to crash the drone and it takes off / lands automatically.

Yeah it’s called a sim.