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deep in the ontario countryside lives a man with very particular tastes he likes things fast high-tech and a little bit out of control inside the mansion a stuffed moose sports a top hat a colossal chrome rifle adorns the wall dozens upon dozens of knobs panels and plugs help him craft those special sounds oh and drums lots and lots of drums I was here to meet deadmau5 along for the ride with Sam Shepard the verge of social media mastermind as well as our friend marques Brownlee or his Internet knows him mkbhd neither of these guys had ever flown before smells like New Jersey hidden out here in his newly built home is EDM artists Joel Zimmerman better known as deadmau5 that's me opening the door not dead nice is into tinkering recording songs driving fast cars and flying drones you know like anyone else I I started out of course just grabbing a fan I'm getting a feel for it and then you know realizing how easy it is to control because you know the thing that we kind of I had my reservations about we're you know dudes that fly fixed-wing aircraft and stuff like that you know I'm like ah man you gotta be we're remodeling excuse us and you know they be flying those things and you know is so sensitive on the joystick but those guys like you just drop the remote you know and it's like oh and it's good I'm like okay and I got really comfortable with that so then I just figured you know I might as well just go for it and then try the 1,000 but then more op now was like oh maybe I'll just take the the phantom with the zenmuse on it because I could just get it out of the car and rip it up bro you know whatever and that's like kind of a knob I would be scared to fly the US I still get a little freaked out well he does have some very big and very expensive toys Joel was really interested in flying the newest of the new gji is recently released inspire one quadcopter alright this is are you playing dramatic music and I'm just like also don't don't include the math music my wife told me not to do that the inspire one takes the big lead features at the s1000 and combines them with the run-and-gun nature of the phantom resulting in a unique drone at a new price point so I've flown the DJI phantom before but this is my first time flying the inspire one everything has been pretty much the same the way you turn it on the way you get the controller connected and now I'm going to try and take off and not break this incredible machine so I'm piloting right now and marques is on the gimble operating the camera it definitely is a lot faster and a lot more powerful feeling than the Phantom the controls are super easy because I'm only using one of them for camera control so up-down left-right I basically can follow everything with one finger so I'm going to go up a little bit and as you see when I go forward and then stop it kind of pulls back like it's throwing on the brakes which is a cool feature doesn't drift the inspire one at least for now does lack a lot of the autonomous features found in many of the drones on the market you can't set white points or have the drone automatically follow you both huge features we recently saw at CES it does however feature an optical sensor facing directly down allowing it to fly without GPS making it much safer for flying indoors first we decided to see if it can keep up with Joel's ATV and a few of his other toys it makes you feel like a kid again yeah I was gonna say like growing up we went through a bunch of RC cars and you use it for like you know few weeks few months and then it's like the battery dies whatever but this is like completed football game because flies having that fair dimension to just literally explore see what you can do with it I think that's the age and people like that a lot I could see this doing real well in like sight surveying construction I mean we were like hella wanting some Tim Hortons coffee this morning and there was nobody here and if you had that it could just be like go to Tim Hortons and come back and it came back with the coffee that's a world that's like oh that world is five years away Amazon is like testing that right now yeah I don't know man I'm like I'm so 50/50 on the fence of whether this is just like a hype thing that's just gonna be fun for a hobby kind of is it just a fad where one's like oh I need one and then most people get one or like actually only crash it you don't buy another one yeah cuz you have to be willing to crash it and then repair like that's gonna happen to you it's kinda like an RC car I've never flown anything at all before today but I'd been like a huge fan of RC cars and just racing little cars around and basically like the fact that these are so user-friendly helps a lot where you add that axis but it's not a big distraction because you still have full control it still breaks for you it still stops so much less of a pain in the ass to land of your back that's not a drought go go like over the over that shed not towards the road this is a how we deal with unidentified flying drones on my property take it up a bit Oh think I can get it first time one shot one kill damn like that was a good one in a million that was awesome drones are getting cheaper more powerful and more ubiquitous everyday yet no licensure training is required to fly them the technology has clearly outpaced the law recently after one crashed onto the White House lawn President Obama basically acknowledged there are no regulations in place I've actually asked the FAA and a number of agencies to examine how are we managing this new technology because the drone that landed the White House you buy and RadioShack I mean I have no confidence in the FAA doing the right thing and obviously they busy they're either gonna shut it down or nothing right you know and they can't shut it down it's too big you can't put the genie back in the bottle like everyone already has these crazy powerful units but there are it's hard to imagine a legal framework where we could keep what we have with and also stay safe well that's that's gun control 101 you know we can't stop people from armed robbery but we still have gun stores and you can still get one you know with the sufficient paperwork maybe just some basic training and then when you get certified your unit or your remote or your control apparatus is you know obviously down to your unit and you have a tag or a chip and then that lets you so you would be liable and you have to ensure that unit for any dumbassery like homeboy at Yellowstone Park you know it's like whoops you know we'll technically it's it's legal because you know it didn't say I couldn't you know what I'm like well you're a dumbass and yeah you spend like 10 hours on the flight simulator to get your certification you're flying it the FAA knows who you are and where you are and if you crash like they can take care you know what I mean it's if an incident happens you smack it into a building and you know freak out an old lady or whatever you know then that's that's you responsible for that not not the community not drones just you you know because you're an idiot in the meantime flying drones is an airborne Wild West with pilots writing most of their own rules deadmau5 wouldn't have it any other way