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A mandatory security parachute could avoid this scenario. To ban drones is the simple way out.
by elmar 11y ago
A mandatory security parachute could avoid this scenario.
To ban drones is the simple way out.
- avar 11y agoThe skier could have easily hit a parachuting drone head-on in this video if the timing had been different. You're not exactly paying a lot of attention to parachuting objects from above when downhill skiing.
- asynchronous13 11y agoParachutes create additional failure modes. What if the parachute caught the athlete's arm or leg or ski? There's lots of ways it wouldn't work perfectly (sadly, I know from experience).
- lucb1e 11y agoOf all the things that can go wrong, falling out of the sky is one of the least of the problems. A bulky parachute is extra weight so people are going to avoid building it in, and besides that, I doubt it's going to help in most situations. E.g.: Who decides to deploy it? The pilot? In that case, signal loss or interference might get in the way. Or does the multirotor decide for itself when to deploy? In that case it could decide to do so at the wrong moment, which can be just as dangerous. You'd need safeguards against this safeguard. The main danger of these machines are the blades, not it falling out of the sky without inertia in the props.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoDepends on the mass, the momentum a drone carries, and how high it flies. Replace "drone" with "stone" and think again about the damage potential.