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Imagine you have a crowd and there is one violent person inside it, how would you mobilize such a person without harming the others? Hmm...a gun?

searchableguy 6y ago
without harming the others. Humans aren't good in stressful situations and their aim isn't great. A ground view isn't necessarily helpful in situation where the criminal might be inside the group ring.
- _bxg1 6y ago
  A rooftop sniper, then.
  - searchableguy 6y ago
    You can only do that for specific situations. What if the criminal runs inside the building or grabs a person to shield himself from the sniper? Are you going to surround the person with snipers from every direction? Also sounds like the cost for those snipers would be pretty high than manufacturing few drones to lock in a target and swarm under their head. Cost of drones is only going to decrease while the cost of sustaining human life remains more or less the same if not increase.
  - meaydinli 6y ago
    A well-trained sniper that you can trust to cover a crowd needs a lot of training and time and money. A drone is $30k
- dafoex 6y ago
  A bomb drone would have to be absolutely tiny to satisfy not hurting others. I don't want slaughterbots to be science fact as much as anyone else, but these drones currently aren't small enough.
meaydinli 6y ago
What if LEO don't have LoS? What if that violent person is in the middle of a massive crowd? Article says this drone can fly at 90 mph, which means it can get to the threat muuuuch faster. For a gun, you also need personnel on the ground, which puts them at risk and they can cover only so much area. A drone at a good enough altitude with a streaming camera can send it back home for constant, automagical scanning and threat-profiling.
pjc50 6y ago
Absolutely not. That and the "rooftop sniper" idea are how you get Bloody Sunday. Firing into crowds is indiscriminate mass murder. As is detonating bomb drones in the crowd.
sudosysgen 6y ago
And then all the other people pull out guns and think that you're the shooter. Or maybe you miss and kill someone else.

searchableguy 6y ago

without harming the others. Humans aren't good in stressful situations and their aim isn't great. A ground view isn't necessarily helpful in situation where the criminal might be inside the group ring.

_bxg1 6y ago
A rooftop sniper, then.
- searchableguy 6y ago
  You can only do that for specific situations. What if the criminal runs inside the building or grabs a person to shield himself from the sniper? Are you going to surround the person with snipers from every direction? Also sounds like the cost for those snipers would be pretty high than manufacturing few drones to lock in a target and swarm under their head. Cost of drones is only going to decrease while the cost of sustaining human life remains more or less the same if not increase.
- meaydinli 6y ago
  A well-trained sniper that you can trust to cover a crowd needs a lot of training and time and money. A drone is $30k
dafoex 6y ago
A bomb drone would have to be absolutely tiny to satisfy not hurting others. I don't want slaughterbots to be science fact as much as anyone else, but these drones currently aren't small enough.

meaydinli 6y ago

What if LEO don't have LoS? What if that violent person is in the middle of a massive crowd? Article says this drone can fly at 90 mph, which means it can get to the threat muuuuch faster. For a gun, you also need personnel on the ground, which puts them at risk and they can cover only so much area. A drone at a good enough altitude with a streaming camera can send it back home for constant, automagical scanning and threat-profiling.

pjc50 6y ago

Absolutely not. That and the "rooftop sniper" idea are how you get Bloody Sunday. Firing into crowds is indiscriminate mass murder. As is detonating bomb drones in the crowd.

sudosysgen 6y ago

And then all the other people pull out guns and think that you're the shooter. Or maybe you miss and kill someone else.