Wednesday, October 18, 2017

It looks as though Big Tech is trying to barge on in on the rescue efforts amidst the wildfires in California, by deploying drones meant to help map the disaster area.  The Heir sees two things wrong with this.  Firstly, there's no evidence that the drones will actually help find people in need of rescue or save their properties.  Also, it's all too likely that the drones being so proprietary and off-the-shelf will lose telemetry with all the smoke and intense heat, and will either fail to record or send back data properly, or they'll just drop into the smoldering flames.


"Let a reliable DIY person get a drone in there with the specific wildfire situation in mind.  Never mind Silicon Valley with its failures."


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