Police drone, crashes into Police...

[! twitty]

http://gizmodo.com/5890507/police-drone-crashes-into-police

 

[Classic]

All I can say is........Ahhahahahahahahahahahahaha.

Just a tiny bit too much militarization and then the facepalm.

 

[Bunnykid68]

Imagine that drone at 500-1000 feet and crashing into a school yard, think of the children

 

[Mgderf]

"Swat the drone?"

 

[KellyinAvon]

When your $300K helicopter drone crashes into your cool SWATmobile? Now that's a bad day. How'd you like to be the Public Affairs Officer in that department?

 

[Kirk Freeman]

This happened months ago. Why is this in the news again?

Edit: Oh, neckbeard website. Now I understand.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

This happened March of 2012 and INGO was there:

https://www.indianagunowners.com/forums/break_room/200808-swat_drone_attacks_swat_tank.html

Wonder why they are re-running this?

Edit: neckbeards. I get it now.

 

[CathyInBlue]

"Swat the drone?"

Technicly, they droned the SWAT van.

 

[sharkey]

You know, I'd imagine that Gecko45 would drive a Bearcat.

 

[Gabriel]

Remote control helicopters are notoriously difficult to fly. Everyone I know that is into them says it's just a matter of time until you crash...and it happens often. I'm mostly just curious as to why they don't use something that is a little easier to control.

 

[Trigger Time]

It's not really hard to jam frequencies of these things.

This is funny though.

 

[Excalibur]

Sounds like a waste of 300K of tax dollars

 

[CathyInBlue]

I don't understand why a professional drone would use a helicopter planform in the first place. As was mentioned, helicopters are hard enough to fly first person. Trying to do it third person from a completely disconnected frame of reference is more difficult still. Quadrotors have relatively simple autonomous control, and in their simplest configuration only have four moving parts for the platform proper, and those are the props and BLDC motor rotors. Why don't professional drones just use scaled up quadrotors as platforms?

 

[cobber]

For some reason this reminds me of the scene in Dr. Strangelove when Major Kong's crew discovers that the self-destruct mechanism blew itself up.

 

[churchmouse]

After reading this I went to my daughters and got out their remote helo for a go at it. Not real hard to fly inside as you can only really hover etc. but outside it was a bear. Once you get up some speed the control response becomes hard to judge. Yes, with out some serious practice they are a handful.

 

[cobber]

After reading this I went to my daughters and got out their remote helo for a go at it. Not real hard to fly inside as you can only really hover etc. but outside it was a bear. Once you get up some speed the control response becomes hard to judge. Yes, with out some serious practice they are a handful.

You didn't crash it 'by accident' into a passing police car, by any chance?

 

[Leo]

I want to go on record as being fully against drones used by US law enforcement for any use at any time, for any reason.

How long will it be before some foreign geek that hates America, even though they are going to college here for free, figures out how they can take control of the stinking thing and cause mayham or death?

 

[j706]

What a bummer! I can see a whole bunch of potential uses for one of those things. I would love to have access to one. It is just a matter of time before they will be common place I think. Pretty cool especially if they don't crash.

 

[Expat]

I would imagine an awful lot of computer hobbyists will want to try to hack the wireless on these things and help fly them...

 

[churchmouse]

You didn't crash it 'by accident' into a passing police car, by any chance?

No. I bought it for them as a Christmas gift last year. They fly it with the gran-daughter. I guess if you pay for something out of your own pocket you take better care of it....................