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That is a very cool drone. I doubt that it needs to be so small though. I was thinking of something like a customized mavic pro. Automatic position keeping,

That is a very cool drone. I doubt that it needs to be so small though. I was thinking of something like a customized mavic pro. Automatic position keeping, person tracking (potentially both officers and suspects) and automatic navigation to particular locations, plus the ability to operate reasonably well in high winds and perhaps cost too argue for something a bit larger and heavier. In most countries, ability to read street signs is part of the requirement for a drivers license. Reaching for spectacles isn't as threatening if the police are back sitting in the patrol car anyway, and there are always edge cases - how do police interact with deaf drivers now? (edit: just checked, seems like they get shot disproportionately often...) But yeah, maybe the screen (which could include glyphs as well as text, or multiple languages) wouldn't work. I'd need to experiment to see what sort of size you could get away with and how reliably you could make sure it was visible. Of course having a screen doesn't preclude the use of loudspeaker either.

jaclaz 9y ago
>In most countries, ability to read street signs is part of the requirement for a drivers license. Older people tend to develop presbyopia, they can see and read signs alright, i.e. they drive normally without correction lenses but they need them to read at "windscreen distance". At least at the time my father managed to collect a fair number of speed tickets, claiming that he couldn't see properly the speedometer. As a side note, "in most countries" traffic stops ending up in a shooting or more generally people shot by police are much more rare than in the US. The (unofficial) numbers reported on this Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_firearm_use_by_country#Comparison_of_countries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_firearm_use_by_country#... are impressive.

jaclaz 9y ago

>In most countries, ability to read street signs is part of the requirement for a drivers license. Older people tend to develop presbyopia, they can see and read signs alright, i.e. they drive normally without correction lenses but they need them to read at "windscreen distance". At least at the time my father managed to collect a fair number of speed tickets, claiming that he couldn't see properly the speedometer. As a side note, "in most countries" traffic stops ending up in a shooting or more generally people shot by police are much more rare than in the US. The (unofficial) numbers reported on this Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_firearm_use_by_country#Comparison_of_countries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_firearm_use_by_country#... are impressive.