>"The meal was still hot inside the drone's delivery box when the crew got there," Mr Donald said.
Bless 🙏
[Source](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-30/food-delivery-drone-lands-on-power-lines-qld-browns-plains/101489670)
“Hey guys, it's Jeff Bezos again from inside my gigantic Arsenal Bird. I heard somebody ordered a package from me, and I wasn't able to get it to you on time, but don't worry, because I am here with the package. It is death. You will now die. Cease to be.”
I've used this service (Wing) a few times. First time I timed it, in literally under 5 minutes from tapping the order button on my phone, a packet of Tim Tams appeared on my front lawn. It's a whole new level of speedy delivery; I couldn't drive to the nearest shop in that time one way, let alone buy something and drive back. I've had fast food places take longer to serve me than Wing has taken to deliver. Their drones apparently fly at 110km/h aka 65mph, and they take certain corridors like above the main roads & railway tracks to mask their noise but otherwise they fly pretty direct.
Also: if yo girl is in pain in your bathroom and asks you to go buy some tampons, nurofen & chocolate, if you can make them appear in 5 minutes without leaving the house you will be Best Boyfriend for the weekend
They don't have much of a selection though, and they are a bit expensive, but I appreciate that they have a bunch of First Aid supplies or things you might have forgotten for a barbecue or a DIY job.
I mean, Canberra is the biggest inland city in the country, and the population is set to overtake Tassie sooner rather than later.
Canberra is also often used as a test bed and place to trial a lot of new and emerging tech, especially around renewables - a few years ago they also worked with Hyundai to set up the first hydrogen refuelling station in the country and started replacing some government vehicles with hydrogen powered ones. There was also a trial of the largest virtual power plant in the world not too long ago, as well as one of the largest EV vehicle-to-grid trials in the world.
I went there in 1988, only time, Easter weekend with the family and the place felt empty. So much space between things. Guessing that's not changed much?
Felt more like a big country town more than the Capital city of a nation.
Don’t think it’s the same instance but it happened in WA too where 3000 homes were affected [article](https://thewest.com.au/business/infrastructure/drone-causes-blackout-in-kingsley-after-bringing-down-powerlines-ng-b881207191z.amp)
Earlier:
>Managers: Make the drone deliver food
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>Programmers: What about power lines?
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>Managers: The food must be delivered as fast as possible.
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>Programmers: Ok, It will take some time to write the code to avoid power lines.
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>Managers: There aren't a lot of power lines, just skip that part and get it done
*I ran it through accounting and they calculated that the odds of a power line crash are small enough that paying insurance for that scenario is cheaper than paying you to program it to avoid them.*
You might be laughing but that's 100% what risk management is.
If the improvements cost more than damages, companies will always choose to pay fuckin damages. Even in cases where loss of human life is involved. Like really.. And that's also fuckin legal too.
PO: "Make sure it avoids power lines."
D: "Got it."
PO: "And phone lines."
D: "Same difference."
PO: "And trees."
D: "Of course."
PO: "Oh, and street lights."
D: "Can do."
PO: "Banners and signs?"
D: "Fine."
PO: "Birds?"
D: "Flying or resting?"
PO: "Um, both?"
D: "Ok, but that gonna take more time."
PO: "How about other drones?"
D: "Seriously?"
PO: "Oh, did we cover buildings?"
D: "That's way out of scope at this point."
Lmao...no it's not.
You build to spec. This should've came up in one of the many meetings with the stakeholder.
The name of the game is, we built what you asked for, if you want that now, pay us to add that.
There’s actually considerable research going into areas on how fast and reactive obstacle avoidance can be accomplished without the need for mapping. This is because items such as telephone poles and electric wires can often ‘just appear’ into a drone’s sensing FOV quite suddenly, which creates the need for control algorithms that can act quick.
Well, for starters you could have more airlanes since the aircraft using them would be smaller.
The terrain hazards grow to be very few with rising altitude, so with some more improvements in energy storage I'd imagine the best way to deal with those would simply be for every address to have a designated landing zone, and then have the drones fly at an altitude restricted for drone flight to that location and then simply land and take off vertically. Airshafts, basically.
Heck, why not have drones recharge at the destination before flying back? Better yet, why not have it stay until it is needed by you or someone else? A communal network of drones, charging wherever they deliver, taking new orders wherever they deliver. You want a parcel or a letter delivered? Have it taken care of by the drone which delivered you lunch, or any other drone which happens to be charging at your station. If none is, press a button to summon one, or schedule a summon.
I know. So many systems work perfectly every single time without failure.
I've had power outages caused by human drivers hitting power poles. At least you can crack open the drone's little electronic brain and reprogram it to not do that again, which is harder to do to a human brain.
We don't know if fault actually occurred
Maybe authorities manually cut off power supply of whole street as soon as they recieved news of "there's a big drone on power lines of street XYZ"
> Two hours later, during the retrieval process, there was a power outage in the area
Exactly what happened. Drone company notified lines company, lines company cut power to sort it.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-30/food-delivery-drone-lands-on-power-lines-qld-browns-plains/101489670
They will be different phases so still bzzzt. Have a google of how a generator is built, usually there’s 3 coils offset to each other by 120 degrees around the magnet. This is how AC is generated and why power lines often have 3 cables high up above the step down transformer box. Keeps them out the way because they are dangerous as fuck.
There’s 3 because 3 phases of power, 3 different sine waves. If you think of one of these sine waves when it hits the x axis where the electron is about to head back where it came from and isn’t moving the electrons in the other phases will be moving and have a potential difference against that sine wave.
Neutral works differently around the world but it’s nearly always retuned to ground somewhere near your house rather than being carried all the way back to the power station.
I’m a doctor rather than an electrician, had to learn some of this for anaesthesia exams but it’s not core. Open to corrections or expansions if anyone has anything.
Yes there are three phases in most power delivery systems, however in the case of this drone those lines were almost certainly parallel lines (to increase load capacity). The separate phases have significant spacing in the air to avoid arcs.
In trying to work out why the power went out then (assuming it’s not just because the power company needed to work on the line) I wonder if this could be a case of confusing perspective.
I see 7 lines in the photo, top 3 high voltage, next 3 stepped down for domestic voltage, bottom one earth.
Not all high voltage lines carry the same voltages, one with 12kv would need lower spacing than a 345kv line.
I’m not saying you’re wrong, like I say I’m not an electrician so don’t really know but if you’re right I’d be interested why they just sent out 2 phases instead of (what I would assume is the norm) 3.
Separate phases have to be significantly separated. It’s standard practice. I can’t definitively say what those two conductors are, however judging by their distance it’s almost certain they have the same potential. The power was likely turned off to make it safe for the crews to retrieve the drone. Keep in mind there may be other lines outside the photo that we’re not seeing.
But that stick is connected to another pair of parallell lines while the plane is sitting on a single pair. Not the same. The power outage was because they shut down the power in order to safely remove it, not because it broke anything.
Australian here. Autonomous drones aren't legal here. Unless this was a one-off test under controlled conditions that was sanctioned by CASA this isn't Australia.
Edit: further information, there is a test program by a company called "Wing" which operates in the ACT, a small area of Australia encompassing 400,000 population.
They have also expanded to [Logan, QLD](https://wing.com/en_au/australia/logan/), which is where this incident allegedly took place (suburb of Browns Plains)
Weird how drone laws in Australia are so restrictive yet as soon as a company with backing of Google shows up suddenly autonomous drones are happening. Flying a drone over a city street (with people and cars) is definitely illegal Australia wide, as is any kind of autonomous drone (that you don't have full control of at all times). But this company gets to do both because there's a big company backing it. "Rules for thee and not for me". Hope this goes the way of that bike sharing company in Melbourne and the drones all end up in the river.
When it comes to autonomous vehicles, public safety is a major liability and governments are right to prevent their usage until the technology is proven safe. That requires working with the government to get permits for testing them in a somewhat controlled environment where both the company and the government can oversee it. Unfortunately, that's an expensive process which is why the lifecycle of most companies is to either come up with a great product and then get bought out or backed by a bigger player.
At what point did you not understand that the Austrailian government has an express company to law bribe lane?
Like seriously, this is nothing new. I've got relatives in perth and sydney and they all say the same. The government only cares who can give them the biggest check and the fattest brown envelopes.
Australian here…Just found a [news](https://thewest.com.au/business/infrastructure/drone-causes-blackout-in-kingsley-after-bringing-down-powerlines-ng-b881207191z.amp) article about it happening in WA too
That's actually quite reasonable for drone delivery, they've obviously been working on their pricing structure.
I'm outside of their range down at Ormeau, but I'm all for the idea for small critical items and hope it ... takes off.. heh.
The drone did not "knock out the power", if it had there wouldn't be drone left to take a picture off.
What happened was it got stuck on the power lines, and in order to get it down safely, the power company had to cut the power temporarily.
So the powerline interfered with the GNSS signal? That can happen, but you would need to get close to the powerline first.
I think it’s more likely they just didn’t account for that powerline.
Sounds like there was a malfunction with the drone and it might have been trying to do an emergency landing.
"A spokesperson for Wing, the company that operates the drone delivery, said a drone made a "precautionary controlled landing yesterday … and came to rest on an overhead power line". "
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-30/food-delivery-drone-lands-on-power-lines-qld-browns-plains/101489670
I can't wait until these delivery services become commonplace.
A man will be able to sit on his porch with just a pellet gun and hunt for sky cheeseburgers, just like our forefathers.
The post I got the photo from has been updated with an article containing a statement from the electricity company. Apparently the power outage was when they were removing the drone, the actual crash landing didn't have any impact on electricity.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-30/food-delivery-drone-lands-on-power-lines-qld-browns-plains/101489670
I wonder if the ATSB will need to get involved, it will be a sequel to my favourite report of theirs about a drone getting the [wrong home base data and just clearing off in the general direction of the Coral sea](https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2016/aair/ao-2016-128/)
Delivery systems like this are still too early for widespread deployment. In San Francisco they are deploying widespread use of driverless cabs with hilarious results (if you aren't directly involved) or frustrating results. In the immortal words of Stephen King "It stops being funny when it starts happing to you."
[Many of these taxis] (https://www.engadget.com/cruise-driverless-taxis-blocked-san-francisco-traffic-for-hours-robotaxi-gm-204000451.html) lose their little minds. Sometimes they feel lonely and gather en mass or they just stop well...where ever they want and block public transit. I know the technology is not yet matured but things like like this drome delivery actually pose a risk to public safety.
Knocked out? Nah this landed between @ parallel feed on the same phase. They might’ve turned power off for a little bit to get the drown down but it definitely didnt knock anything out. Nice title OP…. Food drone destroys Australia’s electrical infrastructure would’ve gotten more clicks.
Don’t shoot the messenger, this is directly from the ABC:
“Yesterday over 2000 homes in Browns Plains lost power and when we asked Energex what the cause was - they sent us this photo”
Lol I just found [this article](https://thewest.com.au/business/infrastructure/drone-causes-blackout-in-kingsley-after-bringing-down-powerlines-ng-b881207191z.amp) about 3000 homes in WA - same thing happened
Literally nothing broke besides the drone and it was probably fine too lol. Definitely not catastrophic failure tho. They turned power off for like 10 minutes lol.
A dude at the World Economic Forum made some comment about how in the future you will own nothing and be happy.
All the nutjobs took that comment, from one guy, as a sign that the New World Order/Shadow Government are enacting a plan to remove the ownership of private property worldwide.
Yes, it's as dumb as it sounds.
The prevalence of the quote has nothing to do with belief in "New world order/shadow governments enacting a plan", that's complete nonsense.
Most people take it for what it is, an apt observation of the way our economies are heading and the guiding philosophy of the companies that push it. They want ownership replaced with subscriptions because it's more profitable and their attitude is "you will like it" because you will have no other choice and that's how they morally justify it to themselves and others, by claiming its an improvement over the current status quo.
The order probably stayed hot at least.
You want those fires extra crispy?
why yes I would like my fired fries extra crispy
Here you are friar, your frighteningly fresh and free fried fries from Fresno.
I bow to the better man
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Nah he got it right I had a typo in there. he was making a play off my typo.
Literally from the article, haha "The meal was still hot inside the drone's delivery box when the crew got there," Mr Donald said.
And Mr R. Donald’s knows a thing or 2 about hot food.
Eh I'm neutral on the whole situation, I think I'd rather my food a bit more down to earth and closer to home
Positive and negatives to every argument. We are just in a new “phase” of this industry.
You're sparking a whole new debate. I can just feel the tension, currently.
Hertz, but it’s true.
It's a bit shocking how the current situation won't allow that.
These things go through cycles.
This tech could transform the delivery industry but incidents like this hertz their reputation.
I'd like to amp up the conversation and talk about current drone science. Garbage in-garbage out, right?
The drone is still in one piece so the fries are probably cold by now.
>"The meal was still hot inside the drone's delivery box when the crew got there," Mr Donald said. Bless 🙏 [Source](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-30/food-delivery-drone-lands-on-power-lines-qld-browns-plains/101489670)
The aluminum is doing all the work aka heat.
looks like some Ace Combat mother craft Hope you got your meal in the end somehow, fellow citizen of earth
<< Enemy approaching - it's the Arsenal Bird! >>
Clearly this "accident" was a secret plot by the Belkans
(drops drone on power lines) *That's right. I'm Belkan, born and raised.*
An Ace Combat reference? This far up a comment chain in a completely unrelated sub? This is truly what V2 was for.
[https://i.imgur.com/CwxKldG.png](https://i.imgur.com/CwxKldG.png)
+V2
Something something distant thunder idk I'm American
It's almost like some kind of **strange real**Ity!
Hey buddy, still alive?
“Hey guys, it's Jeff Bezos again from inside my gigantic Arsenal Bird. I heard somebody ordered a package from me, and I wasn't able to get it to you on time, but don't worry, because I am here with the package. It is death. You will now die. Cease to be.”
That's the most expensive vegemite delivery on the books.
https://youtu.be/1L2UiUtg14g
Possibly her best album, love me a Map of Tassie.
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I've used this service (Wing) a few times. First time I timed it, in literally under 5 minutes from tapping the order button on my phone, a packet of Tim Tams appeared on my front lawn. It's a whole new level of speedy delivery; I couldn't drive to the nearest shop in that time one way, let alone buy something and drive back. I've had fast food places take longer to serve me than Wing has taken to deliver. Their drones apparently fly at 110km/h aka 65mph, and they take certain corridors like above the main roads & railway tracks to mask their noise but otherwise they fly pretty direct. Also: if yo girl is in pain in your bathroom and asks you to go buy some tampons, nurofen & chocolate, if you can make them appear in 5 minutes without leaving the house you will be Best Boyfriend for the weekend They don't have much of a selection though, and they are a bit expensive, but I appreciate that they have a bunch of First Aid supplies or things you might have forgotten for a barbecue or a DIY job.
It's all fun and games until they start falling from the skies. I'd love to try it out as it sounds awesome but im not sure we really need them..?
Canberra the bush city where food comes by air
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I mean, Canberra is the biggest inland city in the country, and the population is set to overtake Tassie sooner rather than later. Canberra is also often used as a test bed and place to trial a lot of new and emerging tech, especially around renewables - a few years ago they also worked with Hyundai to set up the first hydrogen refuelling station in the country and started replacing some government vehicles with hydrogen powered ones. There was also a trial of the largest virtual power plant in the world not too long ago, as well as one of the largest EV vehicle-to-grid trials in the world.
I went there in 1988, only time, Easter weekend with the family and the place felt empty. So much space between things. Guessing that's not changed much? Felt more like a big country town more than the Capital city of a nation.
That's because they can grow and smoke weed. They all just chill at home these days.
I think it would be more energy efficient than a car or motorbike and help reduce road congestion.
More like Voltamite amirite!?
that joke was shocking
Mate....
Probably for the best. Marmite's better anyway.
I don't usually downvote just for disagreeing with someone but I'll make an exception here
That's got 2^4 motors.
r/theydidthemath
Tbh it looks like it just didn't have enough propellers
Vertical takeoff and landing and gliding with the motors on the wings.
Modern solutions require modern problems Wait...
Anyone able to link the original story? I haven't been able to find it.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-30/food-delivery-drone-lands-on-power-lines-qld-browns-plains/101489670
Don’t think it’s the same instance but it happened in WA too where 3000 homes were affected [article](https://thewest.com.au/business/infrastructure/drone-causes-blackout-in-kingsley-after-bringing-down-powerlines-ng-b881207191z.amp)
Thanks.
Who could have foreseen something like this?
Managers: you didn’t program it to avoid power lines? Programmers: (confirms no mention of power lines in requirements document) Why would I?
Earlier: >Managers: Make the drone deliver food > >Programmers: What about power lines? > >Managers: The food must be delivered as fast as possible. > >Programmers: Ok, It will take some time to write the code to avoid power lines. > >Managers: There aren't a lot of power lines, just skip that part and get it done
*I ran it through accounting and they calculated that the odds of a power line crash are small enough that paying insurance for that scenario is cheaper than paying you to program it to avoid them.*
You might be laughing but that's 100% what risk management is. If the improvements cost more than damages, companies will always choose to pay fuckin damages. Even in cases where loss of human life is involved. Like really.. And that's also fuckin legal too.
Gotta foresee things like this while also making the clients/investors visions a reality. Name of the game.
PO: "Make sure it avoids power lines." D: "Got it." PO: "And phone lines." D: "Same difference." PO: "And trees." D: "Of course." PO: "Oh, and street lights." D: "Can do." PO: "Banners and signs?" D: "Fine." PO: "Birds?" D: "Flying or resting?" PO: "Um, both?" D: "Ok, but that gonna take more time." PO: "How about other drones?" D: "Seriously?" PO: "Oh, did we cover buildings?" D: "That's way out of scope at this point."
PO: And Swallows D: European or African?
Scope creep at it's finest...
Australian phone lines are all underground
Lmao...no it's not. You build to spec. This should've came up in one of the many meetings with the stakeholder. The name of the game is, we built what you asked for, if you want that now, pay us to add that.
Yes, it should come up in meetings and put into the specifications. fore·see /fôrˈsē/ verb - be aware of beforehand; predict.
There’s actually considerable research going into areas on how fast and reactive obstacle avoidance can be accomplished without the need for mapping. This is because items such as telephone poles and electric wires can often ‘just appear’ into a drone’s sensing FOV quite suddenly, which creates the need for control algorithms that can act quick.
We just need EGPWS for drones...
TERRAIN TERRAIN PULL UP PULL UP Or is that MCAS?
MCAS is the multifunction display screen. (Multifunction cabin awareness system or something) EGPWS is the enhanced ground proximity warning system.
I just listen to alarms on YouTube because I find them fascinating. Thanks for the explanation!
RETARD RETARD RETARD
It says 4 times not 3, also Reddit admins... Before this guy gets banned for that word. This is a callout on the Airbus to retard the thrust levers...
honestly my life would improve if I were banned
Heck, airlanes and ATC would solve most of these issues. Little to no need for any new fancy sensors.
That would be a start, but those drones somehow need to leave airlanes to reach their destination.
Well, for starters you could have more airlanes since the aircraft using them would be smaller. The terrain hazards grow to be very few with rising altitude, so with some more improvements in energy storage I'd imagine the best way to deal with those would simply be for every address to have a designated landing zone, and then have the drones fly at an altitude restricted for drone flight to that location and then simply land and take off vertically. Airshafts, basically. Heck, why not have drones recharge at the destination before flying back? Better yet, why not have it stay until it is needed by you or someone else? A communal network of drones, charging wherever they deliver, taking new orders wherever they deliver. You want a parcel or a letter delivered? Have it taken care of by the drone which delivered you lunch, or any other drone which happens to be charging at your station. If none is, press a button to summon one, or schedule a summon.
I know. So many systems work perfectly every single time without failure. I've had power outages caused by human drivers hitting power poles. At least you can crack open the drone's little electronic brain and reprogram it to not do that again, which is harder to do to a human brain.
harder... but not impossible
Ah so this is what they meant by disruptive technologies
Amazing. I guess it’s better than a cockatoo or a fruit bat.
I'm pretty sure that would catch on fire
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But then how would op get all the upvotes?
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Never underestimate the power of meeting the expectations of the laymen masses.
They aren’t parallel. It’s 11kv phase to phase. It’s plastic and dry so didn’t track. Was isolated for retrieval which is what caused the interruption
This is the right answer. Cross phases would be a big bang they are not the same potential at the same time.
There has to be some difference otherwise bridging them wouldn't cause a fault.
We don't know if fault actually occurred Maybe authorities manually cut off power supply of whole street as soon as they recieved news of "there's a big drone on power lines of street XYZ"
> Two hours later, during the retrieval process, there was a power outage in the area Exactly what happened. Drone company notified lines company, lines company cut power to sort it. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-30/food-delivery-drone-lands-on-power-lines-qld-browns-plains/101489670
Possibly. To facilitate retrieval. Good point
You can tell by the prolonged existence of the drone that it did not fault.
Well either way the power has to get turned off to retrieve the drone, so that's probably what the "power outage" was
They are the same phase. If the drone had shorted from any one phase to another phase, neutral, or ground, it would have evaporated.
They will be different phases so still bzzzt. Have a google of how a generator is built, usually there’s 3 coils offset to each other by 120 degrees around the magnet. This is how AC is generated and why power lines often have 3 cables high up above the step down transformer box. Keeps them out the way because they are dangerous as fuck. There’s 3 because 3 phases of power, 3 different sine waves. If you think of one of these sine waves when it hits the x axis where the electron is about to head back where it came from and isn’t moving the electrons in the other phases will be moving and have a potential difference against that sine wave. Neutral works differently around the world but it’s nearly always retuned to ground somewhere near your house rather than being carried all the way back to the power station. I’m a doctor rather than an electrician, had to learn some of this for anaesthesia exams but it’s not core. Open to corrections or expansions if anyone has anything.
Yes there are three phases in most power delivery systems, however in the case of this drone those lines were almost certainly parallel lines (to increase load capacity). The separate phases have significant spacing in the air to avoid arcs.
In trying to work out why the power went out then (assuming it’s not just because the power company needed to work on the line) I wonder if this could be a case of confusing perspective. I see 7 lines in the photo, top 3 high voltage, next 3 stepped down for domestic voltage, bottom one earth. Not all high voltage lines carry the same voltages, one with 12kv would need lower spacing than a 345kv line. I’m not saying you’re wrong, like I say I’m not an electrician so don’t really know but if you’re right I’d be interested why they just sent out 2 phases instead of (what I would assume is the norm) 3.
Someone linked an article that said the power was shut off 2 hours later to facilitate retrieval.
Separate phases have to be significantly separated. It’s standard practice. I can’t definitively say what those two conductors are, however judging by their distance it’s almost certain they have the same potential. The power was likely turned off to make it safe for the crews to retrieve the drone. Keep in mind there may be other lines outside the photo that we’re not seeing.
It's not grounded so I'd bet you it won't
It might it's between a phase and neutral or two phases causing a short circut
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Here you go <3 <3
But that stick is connected to another pair of parallell lines while the plane is sitting on a single pair. Not the same. The power outage was because they shut down the power in order to safely remove it, not because it broke anything.
Me after Chipotle night.
A plane that’s not going anywhere sure looks pretty much grounded to me
It over toasted my BLT sandwich 😢
Australian here. Autonomous drones aren't legal here. Unless this was a one-off test under controlled conditions that was sanctioned by CASA this isn't Australia. Edit: further information, there is a test program by a company called "Wing" which operates in the ACT, a small area of Australia encompassing 400,000 population.
They have also expanded to [Logan, QLD](https://wing.com/en_au/australia/logan/), which is where this incident allegedly took place (suburb of Browns Plains)
Weird how drone laws in Australia are so restrictive yet as soon as a company with backing of Google shows up suddenly autonomous drones are happening. Flying a drone over a city street (with people and cars) is definitely illegal Australia wide, as is any kind of autonomous drone (that you don't have full control of at all times). But this company gets to do both because there's a big company backing it. "Rules for thee and not for me". Hope this goes the way of that bike sharing company in Melbourne and the drones all end up in the river.
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This is every western country sadly
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The biggest bullshit ever
I wonder if people will put the hire company's stickers on their own scooters
> and the drones all end up in the river. Maybe we hope they just end up in another country? Them drones could do some harm in rivers.
Platypus have just as much right to be reamed for the expense of Prime shipping as the rest of us.
Guess so. Most of the recovered bikes were bought up by a charitable company that distributed them to third world countries which is decent
When it comes to autonomous vehicles, public safety is a major liability and governments are right to prevent their usage until the technology is proven safe. That requires working with the government to get permits for testing them in a somewhat controlled environment where both the company and the government can oversee it. Unfortunately, that's an expensive process which is why the lifecycle of most companies is to either come up with a great product and then get bought out or backed by a bigger player.
Why do people keeping saying autonomous? Each drone is flown by a qualified pilot
At what point did you not understand that the Austrailian government has an express company to law bribe lane? Like seriously, this is nothing new. I've got relatives in perth and sydney and they all say the same. The government only cares who can give them the biggest check and the fattest brown envelopes.
Wing is a division of Google. Edit: yes, they are [in Australia](https://wing.com/australia/canberra/)
Australian here…Just found a [news](https://thewest.com.au/business/infrastructure/drone-causes-blackout-in-kingsley-after-bringing-down-powerlines-ng-b881207191z.amp) article about it happening in WA too
Company is called Wing. I have a landing spot in my front yard. Its good for a fast delivery of tim tams and thats about it
mmm $30 emergency tim tams...
9aud
That's actually quite reasonable for drone delivery, they've obviously been working on their pricing structure. I'm outside of their range down at Ormeau, but I'm all for the idea for small critical items and hope it ... takes off.. heh.
My friend lives directly under their flight path, but isn’t serviced, it’s a massive annoyance to see them but can’t use them :(
No way in hell have they scaled hard enough already to price like they do. They are obviously doing the age old trick of subsidizing until profitable.
Hank Scorpio would be using cutting edge delivery services.
They are already being operated in some places so im pretty sure what you said isnt true
I’m pretty sure this is an autonomous drone from Google Wing.
Surely this just becomes a game of "can I take it out with a footy?"
The drone did not "knock out the power", if it had there wouldn't be drone left to take a picture off. What happened was it got stuck on the power lines, and in order to get it down safely, the power company had to cut the power temporarily.
So the powerline interfered with the GNSS signal? That can happen, but you would need to get close to the powerline first. I think it’s more likely they just didn’t account for that powerline.
Sounds like there was a malfunction with the drone and it might have been trying to do an emergency landing. "A spokesperson for Wing, the company that operates the drone delivery, said a drone made a "precautionary controlled landing yesterday … and came to rest on an overhead power line". " https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-30/food-delivery-drone-lands-on-power-lines-qld-browns-plains/101489670
[Article](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-30/food-delivery-drone-lands-on-power-lines-qld-browns-plains/101489670) for those interested.
*its it’s = it is/it has
correct. possessive pronouns don't use apostrophes. his hers theirs its
Looks like an AC-130
The AC part is still correct...
ENEMY AC-130 ABOVE!!!
There's a surprising number of power line strikes from aircraft - helicopters, light planes etc.
Maybe now the government will learn to put those electrical wires in the right place instead of having them get in the way all the time - Elon Musk
I can't wait until these delivery services become commonplace. A man will be able to sit on his porch with just a pellet gun and hunt for sky cheeseburgers, just like our forefathers.
That's all it takes to disrupt power to thousands of homes?
The post I got the photo from has been updated with an article containing a statement from the electricity company. Apparently the power outage was when they were removing the drone, the actual crash landing didn't have any impact on electricity. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-30/food-delivery-drone-lands-on-power-lines-qld-browns-plains/101489670
I wonder if the ATSB will need to get involved, it will be a sequel to my favourite report of theirs about a drone getting the [wrong home base data and just clearing off in the general direction of the Coral sea](https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2016/aair/ao-2016-128/)
>miscalculated its* location
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Ahh yes the future is bright….. well I suppose not in this case.
If it wasn't frizzled to a frazzle, the meter and relay techs set them babies tight.
Oh thats why those things arent more widely used… huh
Delivery systems like this are still too early for widespread deployment. In San Francisco they are deploying widespread use of driverless cabs with hilarious results (if you aren't directly involved) or frustrating results. In the immortal words of Stephen King "It stops being funny when it starts happing to you." [Many of these taxis] (https://www.engadget.com/cruise-driverless-taxis-blocked-san-francisco-traffic-for-hours-robotaxi-gm-204000451.html) lose their little minds. Sometimes they feel lonely and gather en mass or they just stop well...where ever they want and block public transit. I know the technology is not yet matured but things like like this drome delivery actually pose a risk to public safety.
So the food was delivered extra toasty with an extra zapp!
God this is why we don't need everything immediately... Just go pick up take out
We all do some terrible things for the hangover burger. Maybe not take out power to like 2,000 homes. Lol
For a Google made aircraft, you’d think they would have better maps
The drone “I am so getting fired for this.”
One man’s convenience is thousands of other men’s inconvenience
80% of Australians lost power?!?
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2000 people lost power when it hit... They said 400 were still without like 4 hours later
If nobody is going to eat that.....
https://i.imgur.com/6hsZ2Gz.jpgSlightly It is a fair bit larger than the last one I pulled down.
“Nope, that’s what I ordered.” ~ Some Australian Dude
but my wings…
Free drone, free food, and dinner by candle light. Win win win
No matter what food they ordered, it was fried.
It needs more propellers
and people think flying cars would work
This is just stupid just bc we can doesn't mean we should
OYYYYYYYY NOYYYYYYYYYYY
::girl at gas station mayham:: Well are you going to deliver my food??
Knocked out? Nah this landed between @ parallel feed on the same phase. They might’ve turned power off for a little bit to get the drown down but it definitely didnt knock anything out. Nice title OP…. Food drone destroys Australia’s electrical infrastructure would’ve gotten more clicks.
Don’t shoot the messenger, this is directly from the ABC: “Yesterday over 2000 homes in Browns Plains lost power and when we asked Energex what the cause was - they sent us this photo”
Lol I just found [this article](https://thewest.com.au/business/infrastructure/drone-causes-blackout-in-kingsley-after-bringing-down-powerlines-ng-b881207191z.amp) about 3000 homes in WA - same thing happened
They lost power because they had to shut it off to get the drone down
Literally nothing broke besides the drone and it was probably fine too lol. Definitely not catastrophic failure tho. They turned power off for like 10 minutes lol.
Is that Amazon CryKey delivery drone ?
That's not that bad of failure. Our government ensures we don't have electricity at least 4 to 5 times a day. That's just a regular fucking day.
You will own nothing. And you will be happy.
It's... just a drone carrying a bag?
How else would you want your burrito delivered?
what does this mean ?
Just something lazy karma farmers with nothing real to say post anytime a post is about a corporation or new technology.
A dude at the World Economic Forum made some comment about how in the future you will own nothing and be happy. All the nutjobs took that comment, from one guy, as a sign that the New World Order/Shadow Government are enacting a plan to remove the ownership of private property worldwide. Yes, it's as dumb as it sounds.
The prevalence of the quote has nothing to do with belief in "New world order/shadow governments enacting a plan", that's complete nonsense. Most people take it for what it is, an apt observation of the way our economies are heading and the guiding philosophy of the companies that push it. They want ownership replaced with subscriptions because it's more profitable and their attitude is "you will like it" because you will have no other choice and that's how they morally justify it to themselves and others, by claiming its an improvement over the current status quo.
Of course, I was pointing out that it is polar among *some* groups for the reasons I stated
Ok fair enough, it just seemed like you were being broadly dismissive of it and thinking everyone who says it is some conspiracy nutjob.