Seeing Karma made me think:

"Wheelerguy" (wheelerguy) 09/20/2016 at 00:25 • Filed to: Good Ideas, FIA WorldRX, Red Bull Global Rallycross

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Drones are perfect for the videogame-style 3rd-person chase view, which will be a hoot to see on the top rallycross championships.

The concept is simple: there’s an IR transmitter strip along the rear wing, and all the flying camera has to do is latch on to the transmitter in a distance such that it films just like a game in chase view. The camera can also be made to shoot live feeds. Because rallycross has short races, there’s minimal worry for battery life—after one race, just switch juice packs.

Unfortunately, it can only really be made to happen during qualifying, because who would want to see flying cameras bugging the race cars?

Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch > Wheelerguy 09/20/2016 at 00:29

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Just up the altitude a bit for the race, and yes, this sounds awesome.

HammerheadFistpunch > Wheelerguy 09/20/2016 at 00:31

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Follow me functions are pretty good, but they aren’t THAT good

skip to 5:10 if it doesn’t. The drone is set to follow me, and you can see how easy it gets confused. It figures it out, but it misses me a lot.

cbell04 > HammerheadFistpunch 09/20/2016 at 00:43

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Agreed the current follow me feature that utilizes the camera to follow an object is kinda bad but its in its infancy. If they did a gps or some other transmitter as the focus point this feature could be awesome in races. I think the drone would have to follow an exact “breadcrumb” trail or a preplanned center of the lane style route otherwise it would certainly smack a tree cutting corners like the current feature does.

HammerheadFistpunch > cbell04 09/20/2016 at 00:47

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This system isn’t optical, it’s gps using the transmitter

Dusty Ventures > Wheelerguy 09/20/2016 at 00:49

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Among other issues, drones aren’t nearly fast enough