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Old 12-24-2015, 09:11 AM   #34
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Originally Posted by Dan02 View Post
uhhhhh not likely, these drones aren't like old RC planes which became dumb missiles if you lost contact with them. In the event of low battery or loss of connection with the remote, the drone Pylon has automatically returns to the point of takeoff and lands itself safely. So no you're not going to have drones falling out of the sky.

Not to suggest what Pylon did was legal or smart but lets get the fear mongering out of the way here. The risk to joe blow on the ground here was zero.
That assumes no hardware failures, no pilot error and that everyone has a drone capable of doing what you describe, none of which are reasonable assumptions.

A drone almost took out a top skier the other day, took out this baby's eye (http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-h...ester-34936739), and there's a long list of people being injured by drones or drones causing other damage.

It's not fear mongering to say the risk was not zero.
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