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Skier almost hit by camera drone in World Cup slalom

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Re: Skier almost hit by camera drone in World Cup slalom

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Post by braythwayt »

kbart wrote: post #22
frik wrote: post #7

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…

Wow, it was news for me that athletes wear airbags.

Airbags have been in use for equestrian sports for quite some time. A number of the manufacturers offer models for equestrian, power sports, or both.

Re: Skier almost hit by camera drone in World Cup slalom

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Post by braythwayt »

Piskvorrr wrote: post #33

...and won that one, big time: nowadays, just suggest that the road is not exclusively owned by cars, and watch the foaming-at-the-mouth flamewar.

The same flamewar that suggests that when someone with a gun shoots people, the fault lies with the victims who were not carrying their own guns for self-defense?

(ducks!)

Re: Skier almost hit by camera drone in World Cup slalom

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Post by asynchronous13 »

aaron695 wrote: post #82

More bullshit almost hits. Exactly the same as 'scary thing' could..... But never happened. Why does HN become crap whenever tech is the boogieman. It's good to know dangers, but this bs upvoting nothing is pointless.

Check out the video, this was actually a close call.

Re: Skier almost hit by camera drone in World Cup slalom

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Post by cubano »

schrodinger wrote: post #25
nns wrote: post #8

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

and cars are still one of the most likely ways to die!

In a certain rather large age range, cars are by far the most likely way to die.

Re: Skier almost hit by camera drone in World Cup slalom

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Post by agumonkey »

ablation wrote: post #48
kbart wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, it was news for me that athletes wear airbags.

Dainese (and others) have made airbags for professional motorcycle racers for several years now too. It's quite interesting tech.

I've seen absorber-jacket things, when I read air bag I picture a real airbag on a plastron.

Re: Skier almost hit by camera drone in World Cup slalom

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Post by frik »

vanadium wrote: post #76
frik wrote: post #7

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…

Anecdotally, all the news in the U.S. I've heard around the athlete wearing the airbag was quite contradictory to the assertion that the airbag exacerbated the problem; the story was that it actually may have saved him from much greater injuries.

On day one yes. The serious injuries were found out later in hospital, the picture changed the next day. If you read the article, several persons with different views are quoted including U.S. American Ted Ligety... (The follow up articles are usually not on page one.)

Re: Skier almost hit by camera drone in World Cup slalom

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Post by alkonaut »

SmellyGeekBoy wrote: post #64
lucb1e wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Either way it could have done the skier quite some damage Not either way. If it was the pilot's mistake then yes, but if power was lost then the blades would not have had much force anymore. They can cause very serious cuts when propelled, but half a second after losing power they hardly have any momentum left. Tripping the skier over would likely have been the worst of it, if a loss of power was the case. Either w…

He was taking part in a slalom race. These guys hit ridiculous speeds. "Tripping the skier over" could have had absolutely disastrous consequences.

Slalom is fast-ish but not ridiculous like downhill. Falling in slalom is common and even for crazy falls it rarely leads to major injuries. Compare that to downhill where falling often causes serious injuries. If this had been a downhill race it would have been a near-letal accident.

Still, hitting the "solid" bit of the drone (camera, battery), which is probably over 1kg for this type of pro footage, the skier would definitely have been injured.

Re: Skier almost hit by camera drone in World Cup slalom

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Post by kylegordon »

mkagenius wrote: post #21
nns wrote: post #8

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

Funny story, heard Marc Andreessen once saying: During the early days, whenever a horse cart came in opposite direction to a car, the car owner was supposed to disassemble the car and hide behind a bush before the horse came near. We have come a long way :)

In some ways, be grateful that it never became law. Just some wishful legislative thinking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_flag_traffic_laws

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