"Thunder" (Thunder)
02/04/2014 at 16:57 • Filed to: Planelopnik
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"Thunder" (Thunder)
02/04/2014 at 16:57 • Filed to: Planelopnik | 1
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A Minnesota brewery has had its drone-serviced ice-fishing beer delivery shot down (figuratively) by the FAA.
To order a case of Lakemaid, customers copied the precise GPS coordinates of where they wanted the drone to land and phoned them to a store on shore.
I has a sad.
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willkinton247
> Thunder
02/04/2014 at 17:00 |
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Darn, I was hoping the video would be a literal shootdown. A Stinger missile streaking through the sky blasting the drone and beer into smithereens.
Ravey Mayvey Slurpee Surprise
> Thunder
02/04/2014 at 17:00 |
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This is the greatest American injustice ever*!
* not really.
Casper
> Thunder
02/04/2014 at 17:03 |
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It was just a publicity stunt anyway... but I wish it would be addressed. The commercial use of drones is something that will be very interesting to watch in the coming years.
Dunnik
> Thunder
02/04/2014 at 17:07 |
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So if the FAA shot down a drone carrying beer, I'm guessing it didn't end well for the beer :(
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Thunder
> Casper
02/04/2014 at 17:08 |
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I'm impressed with it, though - this looks like it could actually work.
I was just thinking that maybe the idea could work in sports venues. Hockey stadiums, football stadiums, and baseball parks. Sitting in your chair, not wanting to get up to get food/drink, open a nice little app, identify your seat, order, pay, and wait.
That could really work... but the problem as I see it is twofold: all these independent drones buzzing around could really get annoying to everyone trying to watch the game through a haze of drones, and they would have to have some kind of communication and collision avoidance system built in.
Alas, I think that's insurmountable. Interesting in concept though, in such an enclosed environment.
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Casper
> Thunder
02/04/2014 at 17:10 |
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They already have network systems for drone coordination. The real hurdles are liability and battery life. Those drones have a short battery life, and the life drops faster the more weight you add (while still maintaining flight).
beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard
> Thunder
02/04/2014 at 17:15 |
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drag the carton behind an RC tank.
problem solved.
For Sweden
> Casper
02/04/2014 at 17:25 |
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We're working on it.
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Thunder
> Casper
02/04/2014 at 17:35 |
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I would think the other limitation would be the drunk guy in seat M113 reaching up and grabbing your beer...
I've seen those awesome demos of coordinated flight; I've also seen how resilient the drones can be, even when missing rotors and the like.
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Casper
> Thunder
02/04/2014 at 17:37 |
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Theft is always an issue, even when they are throwing things up into the stands. I don't think it would be any bigger issue, the people could still watch what the drone was seeing and tell the bouncers to go kick the schmuck in the head and get your beer back.