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Police Launch Drones Over LA
An anonymous reader writes "Yahoo! News is reporting that law enforcement officials have launched a new form of drone aircraft to patrol the skies above Los Angeles. From the article: 'Police say the drone, called the SkySeer, will be able to accomplish tasks too dangerous for officers and free up helicopters for other missions. "This technology could be used to find missing children, search for lost hikers, or survey a fire zone," said Commander Sid Heal, head of the Technology Exploration Project of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. "The ideal outcome for us is when this technology becomes instrumental in saving lives."'"
Just like HL2 ... gimme a gravity gun and I'll get rid of the lil' suckers
This technology could be used to find missing children, search for lost hikers, or survey a fire zone
Or it could be used to follow White Broncos
Why not? It would make "World's Wildest Police Chases" that much more entertaining.
World's Shortest Police Chases?
I, for one, welcome our new LAPD overlords.
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SkySeer? Is that manufactured by SkyNet?
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>...there's many more hot women walking around than there are crimes.
You've neve been to LA.
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But the question is.. where is Jessica Alba in this whole thing? :)
Tell me what you believe...I'll tell you what you should see.
SkySeer, will be able to accomplish tasks too dangerous for officers and free up helicopters for other missions.
Wow, the situation in LA is a lot worse then I thought since apparently they are worried about helicopters being shot out of the sky.. I wonder when it was the Crypts picked up a surface to air missile?
Try using a tin foil patio umberella.
Then when you ar not doing something illegal you can invert it and use it as a solar oven.
If all your neighbours have one then you may be able to build an anti-drone death ray.
... "When 'pigs' fly"
Did anyone even RTFA? The drone reached an altitude of 300ft and promptly took a nose dive into a thankfully vacant lot. Now suppose i'm a lost hiker or other nefarious sort on the lamb. Near silent and undetectable how pretty will that be when this android flap box jams me right in the face after losing comms. Give me a loud noisy helicopter any day at least i'll hear my doom approaching.
I found this picture of the prototype: http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:7SY6ib0nUY04 BM:battleteam.net/tech/fis/docs/images/halflife2_s canner2.png
... Does the NSA have a live feed into the drone's microphone?
Dustin - A different story...
Some of the hot women might not care to be checked out by people they can't check out in return. Would you?
Women have no interest in checking me out. Putting a propeller on my head wouldn't change that fact.
Table-ized A.I.
Hmm... Now what would be really cool would be if they had some sort of computer network to coordinate these devices... maybe some sort of SkyNet...