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Re:Amazon Prime Air by meritt on Monday December 02, 2013 @12:53AM (#6831972)
Kills a dog!? I don't know what sort of half-ass dogs these people have but I'd be vastly more worried about my dog fucking up one of these drones and being held responsible for replacement costs.
Re:Amazon Prime Air by qwertz123 on Monday December 02, 2013 @02:01AM (#6832222)
My dog would definitely try to take it out but it's the same as with cats: I would be more worried about the old guy losing an eye than hurting the cat. Those rotor blades look pretty dangerous to me.
Re:Amazon Prime Air by Udo on Monday December 02, 2013 @06:24AM (#6833044)
My cat killed my small RC helicopter, by carefully observing and then jumping at it, and when it was down she kept hitting it until parts came off and I took it away - but for a moment there I was worried that she had hurt herself on the blades. I can't imagine Prime Air won't have some kind of shielding in place.
Re:Amazon Prime Air by sitkack on Monday December 02, 2013 @12:44PM (#6835142)
If she has kittens I would like one.
Re:Amazon Prime Air by skriticos2 on Monday December 02, 2013 @02:23AM (#6832291)
I think the original author wanted to imply, that a more productive discussion would occur if we'd think of how to fix these issues. Like put a protective cover at the rim and a grid at the intake so air can flow, but hands, eyes and paws are safe?
Re:Amazon Prime Air by mpclark on Monday December 02, 2013 @05:40AM (#6832926)
The rotors can be made safe enough. It is more a question of the damage it can do by falling out of the air or causing some other accident.
Re:Amazon Prime Air by trothoun on Monday December 02, 2013 @08:43AM (#6833536)
Maybe they could do something like the Spirit and Opportunity rover's balloon mechanism to make it safer in case of accident. It would still be heavy, but it wouldn't be hard and it would have much greater air resistance so it would fall slower. Or maybe they could have helium canisters that inflate a balloon big enough to offset a portion of their weight. It'll probably be difficult but it seems like there are a lot of possibilities to explore.
Re:Amazon Prime Air by VMG on Monday December 02, 2013 @02:50AM (#6832379)
Stop worrying.
Re:Amazon Prime Air by createmyaccount on Monday December 02, 2013 @01:18PM (#6835371)
Maybe worry for all of them. I would. If I had a dog.
Re:Amazon Prime Air by fnordfnordfnord on Monday December 02, 2013 @10:50AM (#6834351)
That thing is obviously an engineering prototype.
Re:Amazon Prime Air by atmosx on Monday December 02, 2013 @06:57AM (#6833133)
I wouldn't be worried about dogs either.

I am worried about the 16-year old holding a mobile phone or an old lady throwing out the garbage.