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I thought they already had these specifically for avalanches, minus the drone. Some sort of tracking beacon that you can carry around, that will lead them to y
by Crito 11y ago
I thought they already had these specifically for avalanches, minus the drone. Some sort of tracking beacon that you can carry around, that will lead them to your body.
- ep103 11y agoyeah, but this could be more general use case, like a robotic lassie!
- titanomachy 11y agoThey do, and if you ski the alpine backcountry without one then you must have a death wish. Avalanche safety is one use case where, as with defibrillators or hospital pagers, I think people will continue for a long time to use simple, rugged, and purpose-built devices with very low probability of failure rather than introducing a million new failure modes by using e.g. a cell phone or flying drone.