Drone Flight OVer City

tawnyowl

daveohdave wrote: »

Indeed, those three incidents demonstrate a significant risk to society. We should also ban tethered remote control cars that small children use, due to the slight increased risk of ankle bruises, and light damage to furniture. Also cats, for the same reasons.

Maybe I wasn't clear enough.

The Manhattan incident shows what can go wrong when flying in a heavy crowded area. The fact that it didn't hit anyone on the ground is more down to luck than anything else, given that Manhattan has a high population density. (Coincidentally it seems to be a similar model to the one flown over Cork.)

The Geraldton one also shows that someone can be hospitalised by a crash.

Some discussion on injuries caused by quadcopter rotors - if you're squeamish don't scroll down to the end - there's a collection of photos of injuries there.http://robotics.stackexchange.com/questions/2559/are-propellers-dangerous

Rhys Essien

New drone video of Cork here.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/the-banks-of-the-lee-like-never-before-in-aerial-video-of-cork-271720.html

pandaboy

If anything, the Fogarty video has created great media attention for the Sky-Tec vid above. Going to see a lot more of these in the future methinks.