I predict a quick and quiet settlement, for a large but undisclosed sum. TGIF will not be required to admit wrongdoing.
But there wonât be anymore drones flying around in their restaurants.
Anyone involved in the multiroter hobby would have told TGIF that this was a bad idea. There are too many things that can easily go wrong with a multiroter for them to be safe in such close proximity to people.
And honestly, as much as TGIF shouldnât have been using a multiroter, that reporter is lucky to have come out as undamaged as she did. Hereâs some more normal injuries (gore): http://redd.it/1b5ihe and http://redd.it/2dvu18
âan accident like this had never happened before, and even blamed our reporter for the bloodshed.â
People say the darndest things when theyâve messed up and know it.
The Consumer was informed: âThatâll buff right out!â
When I hear âsliced openâ I expect to see bone and cartilage.
Predictable: âslices up bystanderâs faceâ means âa tiny scratch on the noseâ.
I had worse from regular cooling fans, though not on the nose. Given the amount of drone shenanigans, they have impressive safety record.
The tech is fairly new and some tricks like shape of rotor blade ends will be done for better safety, and prop guards are a good idea too. The things will evolve, if the sensationalist reporters wonât squash them.
For beginners there are the really tiny ones. I am just these days getting familiar with the Micro Drone 2.0, which is pretty suitable for indoor operation; it is surprisingly robust, crash-wise. Though the payload capacity is crap, but that can be alleviated by weight-sensitive payload engineering.
âAlex, Iâll take chain restaurants for 400.â
âThe answer is âGetting sliced in the face with a droneâ.â
âWhat is âsomething Iâd prefer to eating at TGI Fridaysâ?â
âThat is correct!â
Given that they were operating unshrouded rotors in close proximity to people I can only imagine that their own insurance company is begging them to STFU before they dig the hole any deeper.
Itâs not hard to protect the blades from chopping into people. I work with high school kids doing things like firing trebuchets and driving big scary robots, and we put forth effort to ensure that we donât hurt the audience. Youâd think that someone at this event would have done a bit of safety worrying.
As if it wasnât already a stupid idea, incidents like this will really put a nail in the coffin of Amazonâs delivery drones.
Flinching is pretty involuntary. How can it be her fault?
Amazing how I knew when I got to the quote that it "chipped off a tip of my nose,â that there were going to be people complaining that she wasnât injured enough.
I expect what she said is factually correct. Iâm sorry that your expectation of more gore isnât satisfied, but it doesnât make the victim of the accident any less of a victim.
If the mistletoe had been suspended from one of these, Iâm sure we would all have our gore quotient satisfied, if not exceeded.
Queasy as I am with peopleâs graphic expectations of how gory this could be, I think youâre missing a subtle distinction. Theyâre not complaining the wound wasnât horrible enough (I hope), theyâre wishing the headline didnât appeal to sensationalist âface sliced openâ hyperbole.
Well, âdrone blade causes a tiny scratch on a bystanderâs nose tipâ apparently does not have the proper âringâ to it. From the headline itself, I expected to see at least half-inch deep cut across cheek. So she got injured, yes, great, but not enough to warrant this kind of a headline.
What it actually was was less bad than what I get when I make a mistake and stick a fingertip into a spinning computer heatsink fan. (Pro tip: donât do it, it is unpleasant and can break off a blade. You can replace it with a blob of hot glue to balance the rotor if you donât have a spare, but it will never be like before.)
Such little scratch barely if ever warrants even calling the recipient a âvictimâ. It cheapens the victimhood associated with real injuries that take more than a day to heal. Do it often enough and expectations shift and people will shrug over things that actually deserve attention.
The world shouldnât look as so much more hostile place when you just browse the headlines.
In the drone war on couple estrangement, a few innocent bystanders are bound to get hit. But we have safer targeting of holiday grinchitude and it keeps our waitstaff out of the conflict.
Isnât it fun to pretend you donât understand something thatâs perfectly obvious? Then you can blame others for saying something horrible they didnât actually say. Hooray internet!
This is what annoys me about this place. Too many people on their high horse.
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