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>Mythbusters more or less proved the consumer models are basically harmless to humans and couldn't break the skin. They only "proved" it couldn't break the ski
by smackfu 11y ago
>Mythbusters more or less proved the consumer models are basically harmless to humans and couldn't break the skin.
They only "proved" it couldn't break the skin. They didn't prove it was harmless... if one slams into your head, you're going to be on the ground.
- donatj 11y agoWhat's the terminal velocity and mass of one of these things? I'd like to see the math on this for the actual force such a thing would induce.
- Zikes 11y agoWith the amount of battery power required to keep them in the air for a reasonable length of time, I've often heard them described as "flying cinder blocks". Often the injury concerns come not from propeller blade cuts, but a lithium battery getting dropped on someone's head from 200ft when it loses charge unexpectedly.
- tomswartz07 11y agoReally it depends on the frame. I have a $50 UDI U818A and (with the plastic frame) if I cut the power, it falls no faster than a leaf. It actually does the same 'wobble' and lands softly on the ground. Larger multicopters, like the DJI ones in the article, are much heavier. About 5lbs or so. They fall fast and hard.