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Police Launch Drones Over LA

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the eye-in-the-sky dept.

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."'"

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  1. Oh cool! by Average_Joe_Sixpack · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just like HL2 ... gimme a gravity gun and I'll get rid of the lil' suckers

    1. Re:Oh cool! by sjs132 · · Score: 5, Funny

      "A small camera capable of tilt and pan operations is fixed to the underside of the drone which sends the video directly to a laptop command station. Once launched, the craft is set to fly autonomously with global positioning system (GPS) coordinates and a fixed flight pattern.

      Ok, Scratch previous contents of needing guns... Just get a laptop with stumbler... find the 'WHY-FLY' connection (he-he, I'm soooo Punny... ;) and post it to SLASHDOT... Then watch the plane (AKA, DRONE) stall and crash as it gets slashdotted as everyone logs into the drone to see the video of the next hi-way chase on the LA freeway...

      Could bring NEW meaning to the terms "CRASHING A SERVER"... :)

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  2. Or it could be used by HighOrbit · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

    1. Re:Or it could be used by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Or simply to ensure everone is having sex in the missionary position. . .

      "Great news chief, this town is free of anal sex!"

    2. Re:Or it could be used by raehl · · Score: 4, Funny

      search for lost hikers

      Did LA grow a big forest in the middle of it that I'm not aware of?

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    3. Re:Or it could be used by valen · · Score: 5, Funny


        Duh. If you are a hiker, in LA, you are really lost. QED.

      john

  3. Re:Pretty Cool... by ceejayoz · · Score: 3, Funny

    World's Shortest Police Chases?

  4. Re:Maybe you ought to think about this... by fishbowl · · Score: 4, Funny

    >...there's many more hot women walking around than there are crimes.

    You've neve been to LA.

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  5. Picture by The+MAZZTer · · Score: 4, Funny

    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

  6. Re:1984? by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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