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You can also be injured, left behind, faint, stop to help someone, etc. A drone that can follow a trail that changes quite a bit over the year and is trained t
by devindotcom 11y ago
You can also be injured, left behind, faint, stop to help someone, etc.
A drone that can follow a trail that changes quite a bit over the year and is trained to recognize obvious trail signals (jacket on tree, reflectors) or human voices offtrail as it passes ("help! over here!") would be excellent. A drone pass at closing time might become a standard precaution and CYA thing for parks, plus they can give trail notes like where it's poorly marked, blockage and collapses, and so on.
- samcheng 11y agoUgh, I hope not! Nothing like ruining the joy of alpenglow with the high-pitched buzz of the nanny state.
- onion2k 11y agoTo be fair, the wilderness being littered with dead bodies would probably ruin it more.
- samcheng 11y agoIt isn't, though! The only wilderness place I know that is 'littered with dead bodies' is Mt. Everest. And that is from hypoxia and exposure, not getting lost. EDIT: Hmm, and maybe Aokigahara Suicide Forest in Japan. Also not from getting lost.