Drone falls down into the crowd at Festival de Talca in Chile injuring three people

[pguasta]

I guess this accident was a matter of time to happen.

 

It happened at the closure night of the Festival de Talca here in Chile. It resulted in three lightly injured people. The drone was attacked from the crowd with a “boleadoras” that shut down two of its motors. The operator preferred to bring down the drone in semi controlled way, not deploying the parachutes.

 

Authorities are now discussing who the fault is. That could be the Municipality, National television (TVN, who was broadcasting the event), the company that produced the festival or the company that was operating the drone. The fines could range from one million pesos (around 1,369 USD) to 120 million pesos (around 164,383 USD)

 

I hope this is not a world first, that wouldn’t be very honorific to Chile U_u

 

Source: http://impresa.lasegunda.com/2016/02/15/A/fullpage#slider-18 (in spanish)

 

*I edited the figures of chilean pesos to use a comma, since you use that for the thousands instead of the point.

[mcraftax]

Its the crowds fault for attacking it, morons

[Marziman]

Wait you're telling me the equivalent of 1,000,000 Pesos, is about 1 US dollar?

[QueenDemetria]

"drones" in their current state are really a poor implementation, just too unreliable for any use.

[ShadowCaptain]

1 minute ago, QueenDemetria said:

"drones" in their current state are really a poor implementation, just too unreliable for any use.

The crowd damaged it... so it crashed.

[Whorax]

2 minutes ago, DEcobra11 said:

It clearly says 1369 $

Actually, it says $1.369. That is a dollar and thirty seven cents, rounded.

[Stefan1024]

So may people gets killed by car accidents every day. I couldn't care less about some insuries from a drone....

[QueenDemetria]

1 minute ago, ShadowCaptain said:

The crowd damaged it... so it crashed.

I know, I was just speaking for drones in general, it seems like drones either crash from stupid people or "mechanical failure". Either way, the fact that someone thought it was a good idea to hover a drone over a crowd of people is just stupid.

4 minutes ago, Whorax said:

Actually, it says $1.369. That is a dollar and thirty seven cents, rounded.

In different parts of the world the "." and "," get switched.

[Whorax]

Just now, DEcobra11 said:

No, dot is for thousands in Chile and where I live

I figured, but since the OP was talking about USD he technically said $1.37, whereas $1,369 would've been the correct way to notate it (if the word notate can be applicable here?). Lol.

 

Nonetheless, I understood it since I kinda have a basic grasp on how countries do their currencies; I was just nitpicking for the sake of being a dick.

[pguasta]

I edited the figures to be more understandable for the American people.
The reason for bring it down?...I suppose we Chileans are not civilized, I don't know

[Allshevski]

Crowd fault - damaged the drone.

Drone operator fault - this moron didn't know that - motors>off parachutes>on I know that there was no time to react but these are basic things.. Hmm.. If there was some kind of software that decided what to do.. For example instantaneously diagnose itself and decide whether to support itself with left motors or turn them off or if there was a possibility to swing in some safe place before actually crashing.. Can't wait for semi-autonomous drones!

[Whorax]

2 minutes ago, pguasta said:

I edited the figures to be more understandable for the American people.
The reason for bring it down?...I suppose we Chileans are not civilized, I don't know

damn bloody uneducated americans

[Marziman]

1 hour ago, DEcobra11 said:

It clearly says 1369 $

No he edited the post, it used to say 1.369 he didn't have a comma.

[Snadzies]

2 hours ago, pguasta said:

I edited the figures to be more understandable for the American people.
The reason for bring it down?...I suppose we Chileans are not civilized, I don't know

 

Get a crowed of people together in any country and eventually one or two will try to do something like this.

Idiocy does not discriminate, it doesn't care about gender, age, race, religion, political stance, ideologies, sexual preference.

[Marziman]

1 hour ago, DEcobra11 said:

The comma was added later for the USA nitpickers

 

And good thing he did.

[potoooooooo]

Why are they trying to decide which company's fault it is?

 

It's the dumbasses that threw crap at it who are at fault

 

That's like blaming the airlines for 9/11, it's stupid

[mcraftax]

17 hours ago, Allshevski said:

Crowd fault - damaged the drone.

Drone operator fault - this moron didn't know that - motors>off parachutes>on I know that there was no time to react but these are basic things.. Hmm.. If there was some kind of software that decided what to do.. For example instantaneously diagnose itself and decide whether to support itself with left motors or turn them off or if there was a possibility to swing in some safe place before actually crashing.. Can't wait for semi-autonomous drones!

Have you seen the Intel real sense drones (firefly)!

[Allshevski]

30 minutes ago, mcraftax said:

Have you seen the Intel real sense drones (firefly)!

I have. That's what I'm talking about. Drone that won't hurt anybody but let you enjoy controlling it when everything is okay.. Imagine that.. You fly straight into a tree but it does nothing. Only if it sees that there is no way of you avoiding the collision, it takes control over itself and tries to do everything as safe as possible. The same with cars. Before fully autonomous cars become real, things like that could a) gather data, b) save people.

[Si3Rra_7]

Dafuq ? It's like shooting a missile at a plane and blaming the airline that the debris from the plane killed someone ...