Yup, M3 walked right into that one....................
Yup, M3 walked right into that one....................
They just used one to send a rescue line to a family trapped in flood waters.
Link?
Not the same situation, but similar...
Project Ryptide drone flies life-rings to distressed swimmers
That's the best use for a drone I think I've ever seen.
If you haven't seen the TU Delft proof of concept, it's pretty awesome! Their video is well put together and I could definitely see something like this in use, especially in more suburban/rural areas.
I like it, and it's totally possible today. I'm sure hospitals or Life Alert and the like are barred from using them because it's commercial useIf you haven't seen the TU Delft proof of concept, it's pretty awesome! Their video is well put together and I could definitely see something like this in use, especially in more suburban/rural areas.
lol yep... All the derision in this thread is a good example of the social hurdles. The political problems will never be solvedthe political and social problems will take much longer to overcome.
There are going to have to be the equivalent of traffic laws for drones. If private industry can do that without government sanction, that's fine by me. Unfortunately, I've spent enough time with tech folks to know that everybody wants to define their own standards and make them incompatible with everyone else in the vain hope that their standards will rule the market. That almost never happens.If the gov has to step in to make it work, it will surely spell the end for private drone use for entertainment and fun.
No. Let's be serious, here. Governments don't **** up everything they do. They f up a lot of stuff and they're always inefficient, I'll grant. I'd be happy to see private industry make this work. But private industry manages to screw stuff up just as much as the government does; they just go out of business when they do and we forget about them.Relying on the government to do it is a sure way to make it fail.
Multiple standards WILL pop up, there's no doubt about it. And citing beta doesn't help. The overlap between beta and VHS was a lot longer than most people realize because beta tapes were industry standard for long before and long after VHS came along...though in professional applications.Multiple industry standards might pop up, but it won't take long for the marketplace to sort out which it wants (betamax, anyone?).
Bingo. Agreed. Hope it happens.The best bet would be for the nerd hive-mind of IEEE to release an RFC for drone collision detection.
Best of all possible outcomes. HTTP, anyone?Of course some brilliant free open source protocol could pop up from the wild that is so simple that everyone just adopts it.