Skier almost hit by camera drone in World Cup slalom

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Post by vermontdevil » Wed, Dec 23, 2015, 1:02 PM UTC

Skier almost hit by camera drone in World Cup slalom
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Post by janaagaard » Wed, Dec 23, 2015, 1:42 PM UTC

He's wearing a helmet. What could wrong?

Sorry--too much Reddit.

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Post by melling » Wed, Dec 23, 2015, 1:43 PM UTC

This was the breakout year for dangerous drones. Wait until there are 10x more drones in the skies. I was tracking drone incidents for a few months. It's too hard to keep up:

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2015/07/19/dangerous-drones-dai...

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Dec 23, 2015, 1:43 PM UTC

janaagaard wrote: post #2

He's wearing a helmet. What could wrong? Sorry--too much Reddit.

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Dec 23, 2015, 1:44 PM UTC

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Post by yummybear » Wed, Dec 23, 2015, 1:47 PM UTC

It must be technically possible to prevent a drone from flying below a certain altitude. Probably one of the many features that will be added to drones in the coming years.

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Post by frik » Wed, Dec 23, 2015, 1:47 PM UTC

It was an official TV-video-quadcopter from an Italian local TV company. The FIS was initially okay with it. The quadcopter operater has a pilot license and was suposed to fly only in a specific corridor with no visitors nor athletes underneath. Though, the quadcopter (intentionally?) left the corridore several times in the minutes before the crash (for better videos?).

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=de&sl=auto&tl=en&u...

Just last week a new unproofen airbag system seriously injured an athlete [edit: still under investigation]. The new airbag system was from the Italian company Dainese. The athlete suffered a 3 times vertebral fracture which maybe ends his young career.

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=de&sl=de&tl=en&u=h...

http://www.dainese.com/eu_en/newsdetail/D-air-Ski-official

http://www.dainese.com/eu_en/athletes/ (the athlete in question isn't featured on the website anymore)

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Post by nns » Wed, Dec 23, 2015, 1:48 PM UTC

Am sure when the first cars hit the road, similar news made it to the newspaper front pages then.

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Post by markild » Wed, Dec 23, 2015, 1:51 PM UTC

yummybear wrote: post #6

It must be technically possible to prevent a drone from flying below a certain altitude. Probably one of the many features that will be added to drones in the coming years.

How would that help? The obvious solution would be to have strict corridors (which it sounds like they had in theory) for drones.

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Post by centizen » Wed, Dec 23, 2015, 1:51 PM UTC

I imagine this is going to have implications reaching beyond just professional skiing. I won't be surprised if other governing bodies follow suit and ban "drones" as well.

I'm also really interested to know more about how this could happen. High end, professionally operated drones don't generally just fall out of the sky.