propwash
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Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Yes, You can find a map with news about (almost) all drone rescue events around the world here - https://enterprise.dji.com/drone-rescue-map/#map
Comment · 4 years ago
As long as they get past the regulatory red tape that's holding everything back
Comment · 4 years ago
Agreed. Whenever I hear stories like this, I recall this recent essay [1] that said it quite well -
> designing a human process around pathological cases leads to processes that are themselves pathological
Comment · 5 years ago
Not sure why it happened, the company claims that it was sabotaged by a competitor.
If you want to read some more about how they work and how they're priced, I wrote about it here - https://propwash.nihalmohan.com/issues/are-drone-light-shows...
Comment · 5 years ago
Worth noting that the Gatwick incident mentioned in the first paragraph is highly contentious and it hasn't been proven to have been by a drone. You can read my summary of the event[1] or one by the guardian[2] on the same -
[1] - https://propwash.nihalmohan.com/issues/propwash-7-how-a-ufo-... [2] - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/dec/01/the-mystery-...
Comment · 5 years ago
This is the sad part.
If your news diet is consumed by negative press and sad stories, they become more readily available[0] to you and can affect your decisions adversely by making you think that the base rate of such bad events are more common than they really are[1].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy
[1] https://www.skyebrowse.com/