Are they going to follow FAA rules then or just do whatever they want and kill people every now and then when they crash/fall out of the sky?
No, they’ll do whatever they want and kill people deliberately, frequently, whenever they say something which disagrees with the dictatorship state definition of truth. Give it a decade
Oh boy. Ain’t gonna take that long.
How long can these even stay airborn? This is a REALLY stupid idea.
I mean, that’s one of the easier problems to solve. Basically make them a Roomba that has a set flight plan where it returns to its charging station at the end, and have enough that they can swap out and still keep coverage.
And depending on how it’s made, powerless gliding is an option. They already use gliders in some places for speed limit enforcement.
“Normally what would happen… is like one cop would have heard that, flip on the blue lights, race down there… and someone’s about to die,” [Flock CEO Garrett] Langley explained, describing a case in which a woman called 911 on a man, who later turned out to be holding a lighter, not a gun, as initially suspected. “Instead, they launch the drone.”
Langley claimed that “we have thousands and thousands of stories like that where communities are safer now with our drones. They’re safer with our cameras.”
That’s your prime example of a community becoming safer? The cops droning a mf because he lit a cigarette and some Karen panicked? You’re the CEO of the fucking company with like the worst PR and you say this shit.
“We know cops are racist so we’ve lessened their load by making our drones racist too.”
“Why are they not clapping”
Frankly, what a bunch of fucking creeps. Does no one else find it weird that they’re hellbent on spying on people? If it weren’t for the government we’d probably lock up these fucking psychos.
Next week having closed courtains will be illegal. What’s going on in there? Probably something suspicious! Why is your bathroom window frosted?!
I have no doubt this is thiel’s work. He needs the data for his surveillance machine.
They will go down kicking and screaming. A company like flock has tons of investor capital. That results in a board putting tons of pressure on executive leadership. They will never go “oops nevermind this was a bad idea”. It’s just a other front in the class war against the billionaire Epstein class.
No, it’s not weird.
No, it really fucking is tho.
I’ve been waiting for this for a long time. Drones are cheap. Automating their flight is a super solved problem. At some point every cop car will have a drone on demand that can pop out and follow. They’ll launch some slow movers with big blades and just have them patrol. 30-40 minute flights.
Skeet shooting: city edition
The maximum viable elevation that you can hit a target at with a shotgun is ~40m, or ~55m with a very tight choke. Drones can comfortably operate much higher than that. I guess it might work from the roof of a skyscraper though.
time to deploy our own counter-drone drones
So, target practice.
I forgot that there was a sport meant to help train you for shooting drones out of the sky
Everyone told you shooting skeet was a useless hobby.
No body gonna be driving when the markets crash.
It should be legal to destroy corpo property.
A handful in the sky is still a lot less useful than the thousands on the ground. We need them off the streets and then we can deal with the drones.
I don’t think sending a couple drones to canvas a city grid from the sky would count as less useful. In fact, it’d be a lot faster than strapping a camera to a truck/car. Really depends how they are used. But worst case scenario, both drones and fixed cameras work in conjunction, which they obviously would.
Bold move in a nation that treats firearms target practice as a sport.
First thing I thought of was “TARGET PRACTICE!”
These guys really don’t get the message eh?
wonder how hard it is to hit those…
Probably pretty easy with a shotgun
I mean, if it hovers, a laser to a camera is a known thing…
Once this becomes the norm next podcast is “What if we put small tasers on the drones? Our communities become much safer!”. And then handguns etc…
And when they get hacked, people will be able to do mass shootings from the comfort of their own homes. That’s what I call progress!
They’re just copying Chinese ideas, don’t they ?
Crowbar stocks is on the rise.
