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[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 hours ago

“Normally what would happen… is like one cop would have heard that, flip on the blue lights, race down there… and someone’s about to die,” [Flock CEO Garrett] Langley explained, describing a case in which a woman called 911 on a man, who later turned out to be holding a lighter, not a gun, as initially suspected. “Instead, they launch the drone.”

Langley claimed that “we have thousands and thousands of stories like that where communities are safer now with our drones. They’re safer with our cameras.”

That's your prime example of a community becoming safer? The cops droning a mf because he lit a cigarette and some Karen panicked? You're the CEO of the fucking company with like the worst PR and you say this shit.

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 5 minutes ago) (2 children)

Frankly, what a bunch of fucking creeps. Does no one else find it weird that they’re hellbent on spying on people? If it weren’t for the government we’d probably lock up these fucking psychos.

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 2 points 21 minutes ago

I have no doubt this is thiel's work. He needs the data for his surveillance machine.

[–] DrDickHandler@lemmy.world 2 points 28 minutes ago

No, it's not weird.

[–] honesthenery@thelemmy.club 6 points 2 hours ago

No body gonna be driving when the markets crash.

[–] Smaile@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

wonder how hard it is to hit those...

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 1 points 21 minutes ago

Probably pretty easy with a shotgun

[–] mrmisses@lemmy.world 21 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Are they going to follow FAA rules then or just do whatever they want and kill people every now and then when they crash/fall out of the sky?

[–] beveradb@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

No, they'll do whatever they want and kill people deliberately, frequently, whenever they say something which disagrees with the dictatorship state definition of truth. Give it a decade

[–] Poppa_Mo@lemmy.world 1 points 37 minutes ago

Oh boy. Ain't gonna take that long.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 11 points 3 hours ago

I've been waiting for this for a long time. Drones are cheap. Automating their flight is a super solved problem. At some point every cop car will have a drone on demand that can pop out and follow. They'll launch some slow movers with big blades and just have them patrol. 30-40 minute flights.

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

A handful in the sky is still a lot less useful than the thousands on the ground. We need them off the streets and then we can deal with the drones.

[–] Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com 3 points 2 hours ago

I don't think sending a couple drones to canvas a city grid from the sky would count as less useful. In fact, it'd be a lot faster than strapping a camera to a truck/car. Really depends how they are used. But worst case scenario, both drones and fixed cameras work in conjunction, which they obviously would.