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I'm sorry, did you just suggest we pack explosives in commercial cargo drones as a safety measure? Explosives enough to vaporise 10kg drone plus its cargo. Are
by polymatter 7y ago
I'm sorry, did you just suggest we pack explosives in commercial cargo drones as a safety measure? Explosives enough to vaporise 10kg drone plus its cargo. Are we looking at mini nukes here?
- repolfx 7y agoI don't know, as you can tell I don't know much about explosives. But you wouldn't need to literally vaporise it, I guess, and I doubt it'd need a miniature nuke. In my defence, a quick search shows this story: https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/amazon-delivery-drone-self-disintegrate-safety/ https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/amazon-delivery-dron... So apparently it's not a stupid suggestion and Amazon are thinking along the same lines. I only ask because it seems making drones land safely is hard. I mean, a paracute with a whistle is a great idea until it drifts in front of a car moving at high speed, or lands on a deaf person or shorts out a high-voltage cable. They all have problems. If there was a way to convert the failed drone into widely dispersed very small objects, the harm may be much lower.