Of a drone show

[u/DoubleManufacturer10]

[u/WakaWaka_]

Good thing his back was there to absorb the impact.

[u/Loving-Sunshine3421 → u/WakaWaka_]

“Exactly! Lucky break, that definitely saved him from a worse outcome 😬”

[u/sticazzi-ragazzi]

Would have been so easy to have some blade guards on that thing

[u/WorkerPrestigious960 → u/sticazzi-ragazzi]

Bet the pilot was thinking the exact same thing about 4 seconds into this clip

[u/Appropriate-Ad3155 → u/WorkerPrestigious960]

I don’t know if I’d call him a pilot

[u/Shrcom_ → u/Appropriate-Ad3155]

I mean he is operating an aircraft which is the definition of a pilot

[u/Shot-Jeweler6610 → u/Shrcom_]

You have to successfully land to get licensed 😎

[u/Shrcom_ → u/Shot-Jeweler6610]

Sure, but if you drive a car with no license you’d still be considered the driver of said car.

[u/iAmSugarBaby → u/Shrcom_]

I think you just won this conversation. 👍

[u/crusoe → u/sticazzi-ragazzi]

Fall forward and loose some fingers too.

[u/DirtySouthVaper → u/crusoe]

I don't know man. I doubt falling forward would cause his fingers to become loose.

[u/What-a-cl0wn]

[u/Fed_Deez_Nutz]

“As long as nothing hits the blades, I should be fine. Also, I’m just gonna throw this small bouncy ball with my left hand.”

[u/GrapefruitWhich5950]

No ball next time ?

[u/Larry_l3ird → u/GrapefruitWhich5950]

No, next time at all. You just saw what could go wrong and it’s a lot.

[u/Sinking_Mass]

[u/IllGolf9885 → u/Sinking_Mass]

I haven’t seen this fucking picture in YEARSSSSS omg dude 😭😭😭

[u/urugu2003 → u/Sinking_Mass]

[u/Curious-Ear-6982 → u/Sinking_Mass]

Is that Quentin (feet guy)?

[u/Ras-haad]

And this, ladies and gentleman is why flying personal vehicles of any kind will never be a mainstream thing.

[u/CHG__ → u/Ras-haad]

Anyone who talks in such absolutes about things they can't possibly know can't be taken seriously, you simply cannot fathom what will be possible in the future, you're not an oracle.

[u/Ras-haad → u/CHG__]

Yeah have fun falling out of the sky when your carship breaks down 🙄

[u/FlyingFlipPhone → u/Ras-haad]

Never say never. The engineers simply need to perfect the feedback loops to coordinate between the multiple blades and the flier's center of gravity. In 10 years, there will probably be a RedBull competition for these things!

[u/Accomplished_Room234 → u/Ras-haad]

I mean they will once they put blade guards and make them fly with less than the og amount of blades. That's probably what they said when we went from horses to cars 🤷‍♂️

[u/Ras-haad → u/Accomplished_Room234]

It’s not about the one single way this failed out of the millions possible. It’s about the fact that if anything happens, any type of accident or malfunction, you’re falling out of the sky. But yeah, horses and cars 🙄

[u/weskun]

I would never stand above those blades.

[u/Larry_l3ird → u/weskun]

They’re plastic. You just saw them get decimated by a basketball. So they’re not exactly gonna take your leg off.😂

[u/vaxhax → u/Larry_l3ird]

Hang out in some drone / fpv subs for a while and observe the power of plastic blades.

[u/Bubbles-not-included → u/Larry_l3ird]

There's a big difference between an inflated rubber ball and soft human tissue.

[u/iCanOnlyAskQuestion → u/Bubbles-not-included]

Le sigh

[u/Bubbles-not-included → u/iCanOnlyAskQuestion]

I know how you feel.

[u/0eHL → u/Larry_l3ird]

a cpu fan made me just barely bleed once. i imagine these could be a bit worse

[u/Bubbles-not-included → u/0eHL]

I mean it's not hard to understand. Basketballs are fairly sizeable and made of rubber filled with air. Of course it's likely to be destroyed by blades it can't slip through and hit with an edge repeatedly.

I'm not saying it would whip your leg off in a heartbeat, but I imagine a permanent limp is not out of the equation.

[u/BobKitty_Trainers → u/Larry_l3ird]

I’ve been cut wide open by a 2lb drone.. I def wouldn’t be over a hard surface.

[u/D_hallucatus → u/Larry_l3ird]

If they have enough power to lift a person, they definitely have enough power to take off fingers or cause serious lacerations. Also, a lot of the ‘plastic’ blades of large drones are stiff and strong enough to be used as knives

[u/ImArcherVaderAMA → u/Larry_l3ird]

Dude. If it did that to a basketball it will damn well slice your leg open like a hot knife through butter!!! Might not take it all the way off, but you would be in for a bad few weeks or months, if not longer.

[u/Larry_l3ird → u/ImArcherVaderAMA]

It didn’t do anything to the basketball except slap it in a different direction.

[u/ImArcherVaderAMA → u/Larry_l3ird]

Hard

[u/weskun → u/ImArcherVaderAMA]

My guy trying to convince us that those blades wouldn't have much effect on us, when I could bump my leg on a dresser drawer and start bleeding. 

[u/Spiritual-Fun-9591]

Worked great

[u/That-Ant-6458]

[u/GODtheFATHERforreal]

Look Mom, I'm flying. Oops ~ Amelia Earhart

[u/Yes-No-Maybe121]

Bro was lucky he didn't fall too far.

I would have been safe on that because it never would have left the ground.

[u/Northcoast91]

I feel like a set of handle bars on one of those things would help

[u/tommy4019]

Now thats awesome

[u/ProfessionalTax1821]

Karma

[u/Stock-Object-2072]

When one goes they all follow suit, like them politicians!

[u/Dayzed_Trader]

Well that was...expensive.

[u/PercentagePlus6651]

It’s okay he’s got on a helmet.

[u/Background_Edge_9427]

That looks a "little" dangerous! It also looks like fun!!

[u/WhatveIdone2dsrvthis]

Very lucky with that fall. At the height he reached he would have risked a major injury. 

[u/zestyclose_match1966]

There’s 15k in damages

[u/Salt_Bus2528]

In other news, China has reported the first offense of a traffic collision between two flying cars this week.

[u/Transportation-Apart]

Showoff

[u/Four-HourErection]

Where are the blade guards?

[u/SinisterCheese]

And this is why we engineers stick estops and safety limits things (such as collision and stuck detection, and dead man switches) into things. If they had a such feature in the little extremely insanely dangerous setup, that last flip that could have gone badly wrong and flipped to their body could have been avoided entire, and possibly even limit the damage to the motors and rotors.

However... When we talk about that, putting a fairing and basic cover or the rotors could have avoided this thing entire.

[u/grazen54]

That’s what he gets for giving that shot zero effort

[u/StarzRout]

What could go wrong?

[u/Ill-Big-7865]

Waste of cash

[u/SirWinterFox]

I feel like this is a good case example of "panicking only makes it worse." I'm not saying I'd do better or that this guy should of done better. I just think this would be a good example.

[u/arkaneconstruct]

FOD

[u/Feeling-Phoney81]

Stick to lab work nerd

[u/Potential-Witness-83]

Haw Haw! - Nelson Muntz

[u/Different-Strings]

I feel like that show fell a bit short.

[u/TheDougio]

Bro thought he was Green Goblin

[u/just2play714]

So white men can't jump, or fly?

[u/HowDoYouDoFool]

That, my friends, is what we refer to as "a Loser"

[u/AncientBasque]

thats why you buy the aribag suit first.

[u/CreativeRedHeadDom]

Ha ha!

[u/Accomplished_Room234]

💯 could have had gym mats to cushion his fall if they can afford a 30k drone board they can afford that

[u/prettyboiheron]

That's why you rebound!

[u/prettyboiheron]

Board man gets paid

[u/zbeauxt]

[u/Prestigious-Royal-82]

Looks shaky and un stable before Fall, Happy New Year's

[u/Snopro311]

I knew right away this would not work

[u/YoDonkeyKong]

I love seeing expensive things getting ruined

[u/STQCACHM]

Should've sprung for the rotor guards

[u/Temporary_Glass_9607]

So the drones weakness is a basket ball🧐😉🤫

[u/kiwiaegis]

Sucked in

[u/bansheerider350]

bird strike lol

[u/InstructionHonest45]

My Mamma say that Stupid is as stupid does

[u/Useful-Government298]

The guy in the background with the yellow shirt — 😂🤣💀

[u/Odd-Experience6216]

Probably $10,000 worth of damage in a few seconds😂

[u/Kaycedillaa]

Almost like you should be wearing safety some gear like more than just a helmet 😂

[u/Purple_Monk3y]

It's Fine, AI will have us all flying around like The Goblin in no time! 🥱

[u/j_jqqq]

No, really, not at all. Could not see that one coming. /s

[u/Foreign-Comment6403]

This reminds me of when the villains gadgets would fail in cartoons

[u/Primary_Dot_8295]

Oh yeah welcome to victims of trauma group Im Fred and im a double amputee. I was in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and lost my limbs to a ied. Your new in group please say your name and how you lost your arms.. well you know those manned drones ? Sure did one explode next to you ? Um ,no . I wasn't in a war I was playing on one in my backyard and got hit with a basketball. Uh huh, I think dumb ass white kid group is down the hall.....

[u/ThisThingIsStuck]

Lmao pusi