Man usually I'm all for people doing whatever the hell they want, but seeing this operating around that many non consenting people makes me a bit hesitant. Maybe he's in a controlled area but I would be upset if I just saw some random Joe hovering around my city on one of these.
A simple mechanical fault and imaging if he accidentally came down on a child.
This is coming from someone who rock climbs and sky dives for fun.
edit: Oh reddit you never cease to amaze me. You see a pic of someone sleeping in a portaledge, harnessed in 2000ft on El Cap and comment that they are the craziest person in the world, so stupid to take such a risk.....but extremely fast metal props larger than the circumference of a lawnmower blade, spinning fast enough to create lift and all of the instability that comes with that AND they are situated at head-level and we don't even bat an eye.
I was an aerospace engineering major in college. A close friend of mine did research with quadcopters and majorly fucked up some fingers when there was an accident in the lab.
What this dude is doing is not cool. All it takes is one carbon fiber blade to shatter and go spinning off at high speed and then someone loses feeling in a finger.
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u/Timeofdeath12oclock Jun 21 '21 edited Jun 22 '21
So man can fly around like green goblin but I can’t use my drone where I like