Put down the batteries and step away from the tiny car.
Remote-controlled vehicles are more dangerous than you might think. For starters, you don’t need a license to pick up a remote and start driving stuff. With enough money, anyone can drive whatever RC vehicle they want where ever they want.
On top of that, the hobbyist community is huge, motivated and full of people with crazy amounts of downtime spent trying to supe-up whatever gadget they are currently tinkering with.
We don’t let most 13 year-olds near sharp eating utensils at dinner yet we are suppose to believe that it’s totally cool to let them control model fighter planes equipped with rocket boosters? In the words of John Oliver, “How is this still a thing?”
I think that we can all agree that the following people should not be allowed to go near RCs.