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Police Drone Crashes into Police
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Mar 05, 2012 04:33pm |
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| Category | Oops |
| Author | Sam Biddle |
| News Date | Monday, March 5, 2012 04:20:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The Montgomery County (Texas) Sheriff's Office had a big day planned. After becoming the first department in the country with its own aerial drone ($300,000!), they were ready for a nice photo op. And then the drone crashed into a SWAT team.
This would be a fine one-off blooper story if it weren't for some upsetting implications. This is exactly why we have reason to raise multiple eyebrows at Congress, which wants to allow hundreds of similar drones to fly over US airspace. These drones are still a relatively young technology, relatively unproven, and relatively crash-prone. The odds of being hit by one are low, of course, but should a Texas-style UAV plummet ever happen in, say, a dense urban area, nobody would be laughing. Not all of us are driving around in Bearcats. |
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