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Self-flying drone dips, darts and dives through trees at 30 mph

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Re: Self-flying drone dips, darts and dives through trees at 30 mph

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This does go a long way to explaining speeder bikes -- the human rider controls the gross movement, but the bike itself does obstacle avoidance. Otherwise, there's no way a regular stormtrooper could fly those through the thick forests of Endor.

I like this theory! I think this[0] may be evidence to the contrary though. It looks like the driver crashes due to inattention.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wSG3m4VNlo&t=2m8s

Re: Self-flying drone dips, darts and dives through trees at 30 mph

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post #16

This does go a long way to explaining speeder bikes -- the human rider controls the gross movement, but the bike itself does obstacle avoidance. Otherwise, there's no way a regular stormtrooper could fly those through the thick forests of Endor.

In video games, there are a lot of clever tricks they use to make the player more likely to hit enemies. E.g. the cursor slows down when you get close to an enemy, and bullets bend towards them. See this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL1_ht1EdAU

I wonder if tricks like these would work on real life vehicles.

Re: Self-flying drone dips, darts and dives through trees at 30 mph

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post #16

This does go a long way to explaining speeder bikes -- the human rider controls the gross movement, but the bike itself does obstacle avoidance. Otherwise, there's no way a regular stormtrooper could fly those through the thick forests of Endor.

In video games, there are a lot of clever tricks they use to make the player more likely to hit enemies. E.g. the cursor slows down when you get close to an enemy, and bullets bend towards them. See this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL1_ht1EdAU I wonder if tricks like these would work on real life vehicles.

>In video games

in console games

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