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What you need is a third drone...
Now you have three or more problems.
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Now you have three or more problems.
Reminds me of when Boyd Coddington went to Bonneville Salt Flats one year. Got his RV stuck, then got a tow truck stuck, then a 2nd and 3rd tow truck got stuck trying to recover them. Might have even taken a 4th tow truck to get them all out... http://www.saltflats.com/stuck.htm
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How do you keep the propellers from cutting people up? Does the parachute also tangle up the prop?
They aren’t sharp. Doesn’t seem like a realistic concern tbh.
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Being hit in the eye with a flying object spinning at high speeds...how much would it matter how sharp the blades are?
This comment thread is about someone adding a parachute to their drone if they lose power, so it doesn’t fall on someone. The propellers would not be spinning, and the object would be gently gliding down.
Regardless of whether the blades are locked or spinning at lower RPMs, still better than powered drones falling from the sky!
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I am always stunned that many (most/all) of these high tech gadgets lack a LOT of safety features. I would pay extra for a drone with such safeguards. just the prospect of less chances of ruining it would be enough. Similarly, eskates often have a regenerative battery charging while braking which is a great idea. but it also cannot handle charging while already full. So if you go down a slope while the board is full,…
Teslas turn off regenerative breaking if you charge too far, but the car tells you that pretty prominently: however, the car handles very differently without Regen brakes.
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Teslas turn off regenerative breaking if you charge too far, but the car tells you that pretty prominently: however, the car handles very differently without Regen brakes.
Can’t you also set the car to never charge to actual max, giving regen breaking some leeway? (If this is somehow a problem you run into often)
Even though I don't fly over people, I retrofitted a parachute onto my DJI drone just in case. It automatically deploys if the drone loses power or control. It doesn't impact flight characteristics or battery life by much. I feel like a basic safety like this would be a prudent and more effective measure for overhead flights than self-transmitting "license plates" (which I agree are at least better than the silly int…
How do you keep the propellers from cutting people up? Does the parachute also tangle up the prop?
What about changing the rules around commercial use of drone photography / videography? I don't understand why it's fine to use drones to take photos and videos for personal use, and why it's perfectly fine to use the smartphone in your hand for commercially-usable photos and videos, but combine the two and you suddenly have to get an FAA license? That requirement feels very arbitrary, and it feels like a requirement…
Because you can get drone photos from locations you would not have access to unless you were trespassing I hope buildings in future can implement some sort of electromagnetic area denial system for drones sort of like a robots.txt that drones have to respect (or active denial) and they can't cross some boundary like a airspace around the building so you can't have drones flying up to your windows in your 30th floor a…
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I am always stunned that many (most/all) of these high tech gadgets lack a LOT of safety features. I would pay extra for a drone with such safeguards. just the prospect of less chances of ruining it would be enough. Similarly, eskates often have a regenerative battery charging while braking which is a great idea. but it also cannot handle charging while already full. So if you go down a slope while the board is full,…
Teslas turn off regenerative breaking if you charge too far, but the car tells you that pretty prominently: however, the car handles very differently without Regen brakes.
Why can’t Tesla just give us an option to keep it consistent? I guess adding video games is more important.
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Because you can get drone photos from locations you would not have access to unless you were trespassing I hope buildings in future can implement some sort of electromagnetic area denial system for drones sort of like a robots.txt that drones have to respect (or active denial) and they can't cross some boundary like a airspace around the building so you can't have drones flying up to your windows in your 30th floor a…
yeah because all the bad actors totally follow robots.txt and they definitely don't use robots.txt to discover where hidden secrets might be /s