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Meh. Come on. If it were just a camera on a long fiberglass poll that fell, it wouldn't be blame anyone. It would be a _mistake_, apologies would be said, and
by nullc 11y ago
Meh. Come on. If it were just a camera on a long fiberglass poll that fell, it wouldn't be blame anyone. It would be a _mistake_, apologies would be said, and assuming nothing grave happened likely nothing would come of it.
The fact that it was a drone shouldn't have changed anything.
- pavel_lishin 11y agoIf a person had operated his camera-on-a-stick unsafely, and it had fallen, I'd wager the operator would be blamed. Sure, it would be a mistake, but a preventable mistake. "So I see you've got both duct-tape and bandaids holding this on; yeah, this is just a tragic accident."
- peeters 11y agoWhy shouldn't it change anything? Are you saying that flying a drone over a crowd and putting a camera on a pole represent equivalent levels of negligence?
- hippich 11y agoquads props spin at 20k-40k speed. it was pure luck that quad crashed into building first, which probably shut it down, before crashing into woman. otherwise she could have very bad cuts too. flying quads above people is big no-no. they can loose control for many different reasons.
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- URSpider94 11y agoIf the person had been waving around said pole camera in a reckless and out-of-control manner over peoples' heads, had crashed it into someone hard enough to knock them unconscious, then run away and left the scene without offering an apology, the outcome would have been the same. As I tell my 4-year-old all the time, sure, the crash itself was an accident, but the pilot's behavior before and after the accident was not.
- a3n 11y agoLess energy in a falling selfie-camera than a drone falling from high enough not to get hit by a stick.
- scarecrowbob 11y agoPoint of fact, professional jib and crane ops do have to have liability insurance because they are liable if they hurt people.