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Re: Lily – Drone camera

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Post by dharma1 »

baddox wrote: post #199
krschultz wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you factoring in your personal liability for killing someone in that equation? The comment that mentioned parachutes was talking about how a drone crashed at an event and almost injured people. My personal homeowners liability policy covers things like hitting someone with a shopping cart in the grocery store and hurting them, it probably would also cover a drone, but if you don't have insurance it could expensiv…

It's very unlikely to kill someone, or even seriously injure them. You should be at least as worried about playing baseball or riding a bicycle around people.

depends where you fly. A 2-5+ kg drone, even if the props aren't spinning is gonna do serious damage if it drops from the sky and hits someone on the head. With spinning CF props you can easily slice someone up pretty bad

Re: Lily – Drone camera

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Post by bambax »

semi-extrinsic wrote: post #53
josefresco wrote: post #19

I wonder how this handles obstacles. The trails we ride are not wide open ski slopes, or rivers, often times they are tight/wooded trails. Would like to see how it handles "close following". Lastly, the part in the video where the guy just tosses it into the river was definitely mind-blowing.

The biggest showstopper for me on this is the hugely disappointing top speed (40 km/h). I'm an alpine skier (ex-racer) and the only times I go that slow is on transport stages. This thing literally wouldn't be able to keep up with Usain Bolt running the 100m. It needs at least twice the top speed.

Maybe you can send it ahead of you and instead of following you it just shoots as you come towards it?

Re: Lily – Drone camera

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Post by jonlucc »

masukomi wrote: post #126
monk_e_boy wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Waterproof will be amazing safety for kitesurfing and surfing in general, quadcopters are super cool, but you don't want to drop one in salty water. There are already techie stuff for kiters, we use the Woo device and gopros a lot. Most areas have a club to keep members under control (irresponsible kiting can be dangerous to people not in the sea, unlike surfing) ... our club is keen on getting Woos, GoPros, webcams,…

Waterpoof also means we can start seeing drone footage from within rain storms.

I would think the wind in a storm would pose a challenge, but I'd love to see that.

Re: Lily – Drone camera

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Post by dharma1 »

lsaferite wrote: post #175
outworlder wrote: post #171

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Use drones with more than 4 rotors.

Exactly. If you are flying over people AT ALL you should be using an octocopter at least.

it can still drop from the sky, you are just getting a bit more redundancy on motors/props but doesn't help if they all stop due to something else

Re: Lily – Drone camera

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Post by grecy »

ep103 wrote: post #197

It would be cool if the remote in your pocket had a "Call 911!" button. So like, if I was out snowboarding, and saw an avalanche coming, I probably wouldn't be able to call 911. But this little drone is a good deal above me and the avalanche/murderer/shark/whatever, it could call 911 for me, and when they recovered it, it would have video of what happened to me. It could even fly towards a preset location (known rang…

In an avalanche you can't call anyone to save you. It will take them too long to reach you, and you'll suffocate before they can reach you.

The chances of survival drop severely after 15 minutes of burial.

The only people that can save you in an Avalanche are the people in your group.

Source: Canadian ski patroller.

Re: Lily – Drone camera

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Post by mod »

ssmoot wrote: post #186
sean-duffy wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Notice I said "drones of this size". While the propellers could still cause some damage, these kind of things aren't going to kill anybody, so let's not be overdramatic. As for potential dangers to other people, the solution to that is not a technical one, it is simply to not fly over or near to people. Just like we don't drive our cars on the sidewalk.

You don't think a device that weighs over 2lbs falling from 40' could kill someone? And that seems like it's being pretty generous. In most "quadcopter crash" videos I've seen on YouTube the drone was much higher. Sometimes even hundreds of meters.

Even if it's possible, it's incredibly unlikely compared to an automobile accident.

If there were as many drones (of that size & rotor size) overhead as there are vehicles on the road, I'd still expect to have zero to single-digit fatalities from drones every single year--at least from "falling out of the sky onto people's bodies."

Perhaps there are more likely cases where the drone is the indirect cause, like breaking someone's windshield and causing a fatal car accident.

Re: Lily – Drone camera

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Post by relet »

jakejake wrote: post #227
bglazer wrote: post #131

This is really, really cool. That said, flying objects are inherently dangerous. I was at a bike race and a guy was following the pack with a DJI drone. One motor suddenly failed and the thing plummeted to the ground from 40ft and broke into a bunch of pieces. Luckily, it didn't hit anyone but it would have been a major incident if it had. There's a lot of excitement about the cool, flashy features of these drones (f…

I was walking down Hollywood Blvd one day when they suddenly shut the street down for about 5 minutes to do a fly-by RC helicopter shot. This was a few years before lightweight drones and cameras were on the market and this helicopter reminded me of a flying lawnmower! As it whizzed by me and thousands of other people, I was pretty sure it could easily have taken off a limb. I have a fairly cheap drone with a built-i…

That is until your cheap drone hits a paraglider, or other light vehicle that is actually allowed to operate in this air space.

In most legislations I am aware of, RC flight requires an operator to be in control of the drone.

Re: Lily – Drone camera

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Post by pavel_lishin »

flurp wrote: post #228
comrh wrote: post #208

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A fun idea but in an avalanche the chances of you reaching your pocket before being entombed in snow is pretty low.

A drone could detect loss of communication with the pocket device (snow or falling into the ocean should be enough to do that) and start some recovery/emergency sequence. E.g. stop + try pinging the device, if there's still no reply automatically call 911 with an emergency and GPS location. Is there a 911 REST API? :)

It could also automatically trigger some sort of warning on a high-enough acceleration detection. Enough Gs that it's likely that you've broken an arm - send out several emails to other people who you've marked as being with you. Enough Gs that it's likely that you just feel a fifty feet - dial 911 directly.

Re: Lily – Drone camera

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Post by alexchamberlain »

I'm not a web designer: just wondering, how does someone go about designing a website with such animations as you scroll? I know there are a lot about these days; are they all custom, or is there some tool chucking all these out?

Re: Lily – Drone camera

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Post by jimboyoungblood »

blrsk wrote: post #20
ericz wrote: post #4

That is one of the first videos I've seen in a long time where I've thought "wow we can do that now?"

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