Did you get a drone for Christmas? How’d that work out for you?
For GeekWire’s Taylor Soper, his maiden voyage included landing in a tree.
The holiday-hangover weekend wouldn’t be complete without several people posting videos of their drone misadventures. We got the guy who drove it into himself. The guy who smashed his on a basketball backboard. And more, according to this list by Business Insider.
The toys are hotter than ever, Amazon reportedly moving more than 10,000 a month:
“It’s out of control,” Patrick Egan, an editor at the website sUASNEWS.com, told Bloomberg News. “I was at the grocery store and you can buy a drone. Everybody’s selling them now. It’s going to get weird.”
The Federal Aviation Administration reports that drone incidents have grown to more than 40 per month. Of course, let us not forget the pre-holiday mistletoe drone party being thrown by TGIF, which injured a photographer.
People, people. Can we all just settle down a bit? The last thing we need is a crop of new drone videos after New Year’s Eve. Perhaps this post from DroneLife will help you avoid such pitfalls. And remember, you shouldn’t drink and drone.
