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Saw some guys racing drones like the first video in a local park. Every bit as fast and maneuverable, but they had them going through 6 ft gates on a course ro
by nostrademons 5y ago
Saw some guys racing drones like the first video in a local park. Every bit as fast and maneuverable, but they had them going through 6 ft gates on a course roughly the size of a football field. I assume they're not really human-controlled because I could barely track where the drone was, let alone give it precise controls for how to pass through the gate. Went home and told my wife "If we ever get into a war, humanity is fucked."
- NegativeLatency 5y agoUsually they’re human controlled with an FPV camera setup. Lots of stuff on YouTube to check out related to it if you’re curious. The camera and live video feed to goggles greatly increases what you can do with the drone
- jahnu 5y agoAnd they use analogue video signals to avoid encoding/decoding latency
- snovv_crash 5y agoNot always, there are starting to be some good digital systems. Analogue is just cheaper and lighter.
- 05 5y ago“Starting to”? DJI FPV is two years old and naked Vista is negligibly heavier than analog (and it mostly matters for micros, anyway)
- snovv_crash 5y agoNaked vista overheats, there's a reason it comes with heatsinks. There's also been severe availability issues with the DJI gear.
- dylan604 5y agoYes, something only available for two years qualifies as starting to. In the realm of transmitting video 2 years is definitely early stages.
- jahnu 5y agoOh wow cool! And what sort of latency can they achieve?
- jazzyjackson 5y agoTurns out humans are actually really great at controlling ridiculously fast aircraft, the drone races are controlled by a person looking through a camera pointed forward on the drone. You can think of it like speedrunning an N64 game, finding the timing that lets you act instead of react. But +1 humanity’s fucked, don’t Google Slaughterbots but maybe Google how to build an EMP, it’s easier than you think.
- veltas 5y ago>maybe Google how to build an EMP Sounds like a good way to get on a list.
- systemvoltage 5y agoFolks, this is why we need to preserve privacy!
- ethanwillis 5y agoWhy is Google allowing lists to be built?
- Zerverus 5y agoSo they can sell you aluminum foil
- A4ET8a8uTh0 5y agoWell, once you get past the loaded allow part, if you read their mission statement, you will note it is their actual mission: "Our company mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." https://www.google.com/search/howsearchworks/mission/ https://www.google.com/search/howsearchworks/mission/
- jazzyjackson 5y agoNever thought of it that way, part of the world’s information is, “who’s asking?”
- telside 5y agoI fly FPV drones. The idea they are not human controlled is absurd. They handle like nothing else. There is literally nothing else to compare them to so they seem almost alien. You could dive bomb a gate yourself after maybe 10 hours of practice in a simulator. Of course the first time you try you won't even be able to keep the drone in the air but really quickly the controls become second nature. The irony is the guys at the park were most likely not even great pilots. Look up Mr Steele on youtube if you want to watch someone do really inhuman stuff.
- weystrom 5y agoI fly FPV drones too and the batteries suck and this thing seemed to have 40+ minutes of flight time. Even top of the DJI drones (which are not exactly freestyle/racy) would top out at around 30 minutes. Not implying aliens, but I wish we had that kind of battery technology in my Nazgul5, if it's a drone they've seen.
- jjoonathan 5y agoHydrocarbons have 100 times the energy density. We have the technology.
- tim333 5y agoFuel cells for drones are a thing with about 3x endurance https://www.intelligent-energy.com/our-products/uavs/ https://www.intelligent-energy.com/our-products/uavs/