Thank goodness it's not a creepy fuck walking around with a phone camera.

Red Electrica has a public-private ownership structure. So, who to blame? Shareholders? Corporate interests? The government that the people elected (i.e. blame themselves)?

The drones were obviously not equipped with the latest system: Maneuvering Augmentation for Going Over Objects (MAGOO).

Not so small. And lives (and wars) have been lost because foreign workers didn't have the breadth of knowledge that their American counterparts had. I'm thinking about the 737 Max crashes, where several American pilots, diagnosing the problem, easily corrected the aircraft's dive and flew on. Some other natonalities consider 'pilot' to be a high status job. Unworthy of the intimate mechanical knowledge involved. And they flew right into the ground.

During WWII, there were significant differences between British/American and German radar sets. The German stuff was simple to operate, but when it didn't work, that was it. British radar sets had all the knobs. With the expectation that the operators could tweak it if needed.

Try skiing in Austria. They stand on your skis in the lift line.

So, is Asperger's Syndrome back in?

The crash trucks our state uses have a rack of plastic water barrels on the back. The dope hitting it stands a better chance of survival. As does the crash truck driver. And for long distance travel between job sites, much easier to lighten the load and save guzzoline.

The FAA has not yet finished working on part 108 (flight beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS)) of its regulations for drones. This means that right now all drone operations must be done within visual line of sight of the operator or by a special waiver. One of the conditions of part 108 is that drones must have a "detect and avoid" capability that would prevent this sort of incident from happening -- so how did it happen?

If the drone was being flown by visual line of sight then the operator should have seen something as big as a crane.

If it was being flown under a waiver and the FAA has already mandated "detect and avoid" as a requirement for BVLOS then someone wasn't complying with the terms of the waiver.

And all for what -- so your tube-socks will arrive 15 minutes faster?

I have been a part of the drone community and industry for more than 15 years and I can tell you that B2C drone deliveries, outside of a few specific cases, will never become practical. The likes of Amazon and Google are far more interested in the data they can scoop up by flying drones over urban/residential areas than they are in actually delivering stuff. They also both realize that the *real* money will be made from creating a UTM (unmanned traffic management) system which is like ATC for drones. Both these companies are very much into infrastructure provision and the UTM that will be needed for large-scale drone operations is the perfect target for their expansion.

Don't be fooled, "drone delivery" is just a diversion while they prepare their UTM plans and claim that "we have more experience than anyone in drone traffic management". Despite that experience, Amazon has a record of setting stuff on fire and crashing into cranes while Google's Wing craft have been known to black out wide areas after performing "precautionary landings" on high-voltage power lines.

If a kid can't fly their 250g drone in a park without all sorts of tests and a digital angle-bracelet in the form of "Remote ID" then clearly this tech is way to dangerous to have giant delivery drones laden with god-knows-what falling from the skies across our cityscape.

It's complete shit. I have a couple of favorite questions I ask search engines, LLMs and whatnot. None of them get the answer right. Based upon incorrect references to more recent sources. Nothing existed before Google started scraping the Internet. Even if the on-line source references the correct source. The LLM can't figure that out.

Train your LLM on Dad jokes?

... DARPA, in all its wisdom, envisioned a network that could route around damage.

The TV news carried this story, along with an aerial view of the "construction site". In addition, I drilled down through TFA and found the site: A United Rentals parking lot. Which agreed with the TV news: Three cranes parked side by side, raised to full height.The man-lift type crane.

I'm not sure what the FAA regs say about leaving these things parked and raised up like that. On the other hand, I'm not sure if the Amazon site qualifies for any special air rights as would a cargo airport or heliport.

I'm not interested in educating people on the left. It's a lost cause.

Hillary Care predates Google. But I'm sure you can find some citations in AltaVista.

Fringe kook Hillary. That explains the 2016 election outcome.

The Northern Hemisphere just dimmed a bit more after that.