alt Hacker NewsThe other day I was joking with friends about how I'd love to have a car with a deployable surveillance drone to help with parking and so if I'm stuck in traffic I could have my drone scout ahead and see what's up.
Turns out BYD have one of those already! https://www.theverge.com/news/622963/byd-dji-vehicle-mounted...
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This is both really cool and also fucking insanity - the lengths we’ll go just to avoid building better train service.
Basically the Larry David periscope car: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQRm1cg8T8I
His idea was like a back up camera, but front-facing and elevated (retractable).
Make the drone carry a couple of orange cones (or just look like an orange cone itself) and you can even have it save the spot it finds until you get there.
Dear god, the street level noise pollution of flying taxies, but democratized so everyone can have it! :/
Makes me happy for once about the restrictive drone policies where I live.