High turnover and safety issues are hurting Amazon’s drone program.

The following month, a drone’s motor shut off as it switched from an upward flight path to flying straight ahead. Two safety features — one that’s supposed to land the drone in this type of situation and another that stabilizes the drone — both failed. As a result, the drone flipped upside down and dropped from 160 feet in the air, leading to a brush fire that stretched across 25 acres. It was later put out by the local fire department.

    • Bobson_Dugnutt [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-c1-colorado-drones-20140116-dto-htmlstory.html

      • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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        2 years ago

        The most interesting part is towards the end.

        It turned out that Steel was a suspect involving a strange incident at his workplace in Arvada, about 60 miles away, in which a co-worker told police that when he picked up his telephone, liquid mercury oozed out of the receiver and onto his face.