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I have no problem seeing this as realistic. > 1) quadcopters battery is not great Dropping does not require energy. A drone-mothership will obviously take win

by lolc 5y ago

I have no problem seeing this as realistic. > 1) quadcopters battery is not great Dropping does not require energy. A drone-mothership will obviously take wind in account when dropping the dronelets. The video was not realistic in that regard because the drones would probably be folded for initial descent. I find USD 10 is not unrealistic. Already now a device with battery, chip, and motor can be manufactured for under that. It will get cheaper. 2) AI is very specialized We've just seen how a drone navigates autonomously at high speed without crashing. They don't need much more to be killers. 3) Underestimating humans You have to be prepared to react well to a drone attack like that. These things will not wait around for you to figure it out.

imtringued 5y ago
>Dropping does not require energy. A drone-mothership will obviously take wind in account when dropping the dronelets. The video was not realistic in that regard because the drones would probably be folded for initial descent. That already exists. It's called GBU-39/B Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) and it has been obsoleted already by the GBU-53/B StormBreaker. Yet nobody is freaking out. https://youtu.be/CxePhkdIo0o https://youtu.be/CxePhkdIo0o https://youtu.be/hyaIrhGrCzo https://youtu.be/hyaIrhGrCzo Ohh and even a nice fictional animation: https://youtu.be/n8u0l_c2_NA https://youtu.be/n8u0l_c2_NA
- giorgioz 5y ago
  And yet last week a simple light show with quad-copters didn't manage to go as planned: https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/travel-troubles/126582371/its-raining-drones--dozens-fall-from-the-sky-in-light-show-fail-in-china https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/travel-troubles/126582371/its... Now I don't think those drones costed 10USD each, they probably costed more and even having them doing a light show is very hard.
  - lolc 5y ago
    The trick about drones is that you don't care about the ones that don't make it.

by lolc 5y ago

imtringued 5y ago

>Dropping does not require energy. A drone-mothership will obviously take wind in account when dropping the dronelets. The video was not realistic in that regard because the drones would probably be folded for initial descent. That already exists. It's called GBU-39/B Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) and it has been obsoleted already by the GBU-53/B StormBreaker. Yet nobody is freaking out. https://youtu.be/CxePhkdIo0o https://youtu.be/CxePhkdIo0o https://youtu.be/hyaIrhGrCzo https://youtu.be/hyaIrhGrCzo Ohh and even a nice fictional animation: https://youtu.be/n8u0l_c2_NA https://youtu.be/n8u0l_c2_NA

giorgioz 5y ago
And yet last week a simple light show with quad-copters didn't manage to go as planned: https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/travel-troubles/126582371/its-raining-drones--dozens-fall-from-the-sky-in-light-show-fail-in-china https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/travel-troubles/126582371/its... Now I don't think those drones costed 10USD each, they probably costed more and even having them doing a light show is very hard.
- lolc 5y ago
  The trick about drones is that you don't care about the ones that don't make it.