So, target practice.
this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2026
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“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.
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.
I have no doubt this is thiel's work. He needs the data for his surveillance machine.
No, it's not weird.
No body gonna be driving when the markets crash.
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?
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
Oh boy. Ain't gonna take that long.
wonder how hard it is to hit those...
Probably pretty easy with a shotgun
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.
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.
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.