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Has anyone actually been killed by a non military drone yet?
A man was killed by a larger drone when, it's suspected, the GPS was jammed: http://lemondronor.com/blog/index.php/2013/3/gps-loss-kicked...
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…
I'm having trouble understanding why the last part of this comment is relevant...?
Both are currently featured in the news and are controversial. The second one happened just a few days earlier.
Same skiing nation (in 5 races, 4 of their favorities were knocked out for (broken bones, etc)). The involved companies came in both incidents from the same country (coincidence, doesn't mean anything).
But instead of downvoting, maybe just ignore it? Several downvoted/flagged it, but a lot more upvoted it. It seems other use a throw away user account to post controversial comments...
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The average IQ of a user is inversely proportional to the popularity of a product. Case in point: laser pointers.
Penis enlargement pills are not popular.
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.
If the power cuts out and the drone is falling out of the sky, how useful is a software rule which is dependent on a computer that is now offline, a non-functioning altimeter and a set of dead engines? (Spoiler: not very much) But of course, such thing would never happen. (Except it just did.)
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 :)
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It is only a matter of time before decent pilots make mistakes. So what you are saying is that the risk-taking pilots are closing the "window of unregulated flying" a little bit faster than you'd like to see. Eventually, that window will be closed nonetheless.
If decent pilots make unavoidable mistakes, then they will make unavoidable mistakes when its regulated too?
Note to self: add a small mechanical trigger for a parachute for cases of emergency. This will trigger if the drone falls at a certain speed.
You could add an electromechanical failsafe that would trigger in the event of loss of power - i.e. the safety device wants to deploy itself, but is actively prevented from doing so by the electronics.