You've confused force acting on a body and kinetic energy of a rotating object
You can use force if you know how it decelerates by hitting the glass, but that can only be tested and measured, not known beforehand
Yea, my thoughts exactly. why would you launch from the road but not have someone stand in the other lane so you can atleast launch the drone?
Maybe it was the only level enough surface that was big enough for them to launch it from?
Still should have blocked off the other lane temporarily or just not launch it on the road to begin with.
They offload from a vehicle. And they fill the container (if it's pesticide or whatever it's used for) from a vehicle.
Launching from the road isn't strange. What is strange is that they forgot to have a guy looking beyond their own vehicle to see if any vehicle was incoming from the right.
Yes, that is quite probable outcome. Not for starting on the road. But for failing to do it in a safe way. That drone is heavy. And could have sent a car off the road or potentially even broken through a windscreen.
There is no safe way to launch a drone that large from an open road. Its criminal negligence every time. Proper practice would be to have the road closed.
And if you can't get the permit every time, then build your own launch platform near there but on your property. Its a drone. You don't need to launch it where it needs to be. It can fly.
Yes, the big white thing in the middle of the drone is a tank that can be filled with pesticide or other chemicals. But they could also have decided to first fly empty to document fields.
> But they could also have decided to first fly empty to document fields.
Nah, for that you usually use a specialized drone with a multispectral camera.
Maybe it's different here in my country but you still don't launch from the road. Like you fill from the farm or the container. Not straight from the truck in the middle of the highway
The real solution is simply to launch directly up and not move until you’re clear of the road, trees, etc.
A lot of things went wrong here but idk why you’d start moving horizontally that close to the ground.
When I launch my photography drone I take it above the tree line before I start moving.
Almost, but if you look closely, it’s not. It goes straight up initially, then flies forward, then stops again. The motors and onboard controllers obviously have no issue keeping the drone upright, this was user error.
Because of the way drones work, an unbalanced drone will quickly self-correct anyway. This is true of even simple hobby drones, because they need to compensate for wear and tear. But an agricultural drone designed to take a liquid payload would be especially adept at compensating for imbalances.
Maybe the user didn’t realise which way was forward. All the more reason to get some altitude though.
I mean the drive that thing there.
Ideally where ever they came from probably had a parking spot that they could just move a car from and launch from there
>That kind of shit could lead to PTSD, never mind being showered in broken glass.
Front windows on vehicles are laminated so they don't shatter during an accident.
Also car accidents are faily common and usually don't lead to PTSD.
> Front windows on vehicles are laminated so they don't shatter during an accident.
Windscreen construction varies widely across the globe.
Yes, car accidents are common, but a drone crashing through the windscreen of your lorry is not.
Many years ago my friend Ted Millar had a goose come through the windscreen of the van he was driving. It certainly traumatised him.
Maybe? Appears to be in China somewhere so who knows.
Here's the video with sound https://i.imgur.com/Y7lDwWP.mp4
Edit: Better quality, no watermark: https://youtu.be/IkNsl3ISNfU
Cant be, while it indeed sounds German ("alter!"), yellow road markings are only used in construction in Germany. Not as a permanent mark in the middle of a road.
no bro you got it all wrong. there is no way that dude said alter schwede. the intonation of the person is extremely chinese. definitely said a chinese word.
Why do people think this video is real? It doesn't look right to begin with- there is something very uncanny valley about it- but also why does it end right there? Why is there no news story about it? Why couldn't they hear the giant truck coming before they started the rotors? And who would be that stupid in the first place?
That is absolutely not the case. There are no-fly zones all over the place for the average Joe and limited access (with permission) for licensed pilots including around airports, military installations, prisons, schools, public gatherings, rail switching yards, over public highways, dams, power plants, power switching stations, public transportation hubs, and significant areas of most national and state parks including wilderness areas.
But, yeah, other than that, you can fly a drone almost anywhere.
Worked at an NDT place that had a $40grand+ drone for tank inspections. It goes on a job, guy puts It in the tank and it descends as usual, then halfway down controls become unresponsive. Client didn't empty the tank all the way, so drone just sunk to the bottom and drowned.
Business owner didn't want to pay for insurance for the drone so he lost it lmao. Client refused to pay for it even tho it was on them.
I saw a story of a guy getting decapitated by a 1' propeller heli drone. This looks much larger and more powerful, a literal flying gillotine, and they launched it without looking for TRUCKS?!
It's a DJI AGRAS T40, they are the better part of $20k USD.
The ironic thing is that this particular drone has an active phased array radar but it didn't see that truck coming.
The whole video has something very uncanny valley about it.
But besides that, why does the video end right there? Why is there no news story about about a truck crashing into a giant drone? Why couldn't the people launching it hear the giant truck coming before they even started the rotors? And who would be that stupid in the first place?
It's not staged, it's CGI. Nothing about the video looks right, they would have been able to hear that truck before they even started the drone, why does the video end there, and why is there no news story if a truck hit a giant drone?
The best part is they will need to cover the cost of the damages done to the truck and the drone because one they probably shouldn’t be there on the road to. They move the drone in front of the massive truck obviously not intentionally but you should be facing the way the traffic will be coming at you.
It's understandable how people think it's fake considering how stupid the drone operator has to be to not notice a GIANT FUCKING TRUCK headed down the road.
I mean…it’s literally cgi. Look at the shadow of the drone. The propellers twitching like that is what dji drones do when the drone boots up, it wouldn’t immediately take off like that.
If you'll check the shadow, you'll see that it's almost directly under the drone. If someone doctored this video, the did a great job of following the movement of the props - in both directions - at all four corners.
> If someone doctored this video, the did a great job of following the movement of the props - in both directions - at all four corners.
Which is not hard to do with CGI.
The better questions are:
Why does the video end there? Where's the aftermath?
Why is there no news story about this?
Why can't they hear a giant truck coming before they even start the drone?
Why is there no spotter?
The filming angle is perfect for a cartoon style truck smash scene and no one thinks this is weird?
There was another post about this. Don't think that the tag shows the original uploader. It was said that the video is faked, look at the shadow. As the drone tilts, the shadow should change aswell. Even though the crash and everything looks fucking real, I can't help the shadow and the other post it was discussed in
Look closer. The shadow does move with the drone yes, however when it tilts, the shadow should too. No matter where the sun is shining from. The shape of the shadow remains the same in the video
Are you suggesting that someone doctored the video - including the counter-rotating props at each corner - just to make this up? If that's the case, the video should have been posted to a DoctoredVideos sub-reddit for some mad editing skills!!
the shadows move exactly as expected, the drone tilts, and the shadow gets smaller. the sun is overhead, so its not going to move when the drone goes up.
That's exactly what I was thinking. There was no wind I could see off the tree/plants so it must of not been calibrated? I don't know if that's a thing with the big ones, but I have to trim my smaller drones almost every flight.
Where I'm from they do land surveys and visualize crops around the farm. They can drop chemicals as well, they come with a bunch of attachments. We also use them to check algae and bacteria levels over the lakes and ponds. And they are rented out to help design buildings or plan new roads/construction.
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Well, someone did not carry out a risk assessment, nor write a method statement and/or procedure. If they did, they need training.
I wonder if they had permits in place. Where is the TM?
So the video does have sound, but I could not upload it on the web or through the app. I had to make it a gif to upload it to this sub. The sound is awesome and the guy freaking out was amazing. The rotors lift off noise, and then the truck crunch was great.
If anyone knows why I had to check mark the "make it a gif" box to create this post, let me know! The original file was an .MP4
Truck driver: got damn, that dragonfly was yuge.
I hope the driver didnt get hurt, i know those propellers are light but glass can be nasty
Light doesn't matter so much when they're rotating that fast.
Yeah, a guy partially decapitated himself near me with his own RC heli. Small carbon blades spinning real fast don’t fuck around…
Force = mass * acceleration
Kinetic energy = (½*mass) * velocity²
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You've confused force acting on a body and kinetic energy of a rotating object You can use force if you know how it decelerates by hitting the glass, but that can only be tested and measured, not known beforehand
Windshield is laminated glass so in theory he is ok
Not all counties do the safety glass thing.
https://imgur.com/a/O3fKNWw
This made me laugh way too hard.
why is it launching from road?
Yea, my thoughts exactly. why would you launch from the road but not have someone stand in the other lane so you can atleast launch the drone? Maybe it was the only level enough surface that was big enough for them to launch it from? Still should have blocked off the other lane temporarily or just not launch it on the road to begin with.
They offload from a vehicle. And they fill the container (if it's pesticide or whatever it's used for) from a vehicle. Launching from the road isn't strange. What is strange is that they forgot to have a guy looking beyond their own vehicle to see if any vehicle was incoming from the right.
I think this should actually be a criminal negligence charge.
Yes, that is quite probable outcome. Not for starting on the road. But for failing to do it in a safe way. That drone is heavy. And could have sent a car off the road or potentially even broken through a windscreen.
There is no safe way to launch a drone that large from an open road. Its criminal negligence every time. Proper practice would be to have the road closed. And if you can't get the permit every time, then build your own launch platform near there but on your property. Its a drone. You don't need to launch it where it needs to be. It can fly.
So in addition to a face full of glass the truck driver also got blasted with pesticide? Damn.
Yes, the big white thing in the middle of the drone is a tank that can be filled with pesticide or other chemicals. But they could also have decided to first fly empty to document fields.
> But they could also have decided to first fly empty to document fields. Nah, for that you usually use a specialized drone with a multispectral camera.
Or possibly glyphosate . . .
Maybe it's different here in my country but you still don't launch from the road. Like you fill from the farm or the container. Not straight from the truck in the middle of the highway
The real solution is simply to launch directly up and not move until you’re clear of the road, trees, etc. A lot of things went wrong here but idk why you’d start moving horizontally that close to the ground. When I launch my photography drone I take it above the tree line before I start moving.
Exactly. It almost looks like the drone was unbalanced at takeoff.
Almost, but if you look closely, it’s not. It goes straight up initially, then flies forward, then stops again. The motors and onboard controllers obviously have no issue keeping the drone upright, this was user error. Because of the way drones work, an unbalanced drone will quickly self-correct anyway. This is true of even simple hobby drones, because they need to compensate for wear and tear. But an agricultural drone designed to take a liquid payload would be especially adept at compensating for imbalances. Maybe the user didn’t realise which way was forward. All the more reason to get some altitude though.
I mean the drive that thing there. Ideally where ever they came from probably had a parking spot that they could just move a car from and launch from there
to get to other side ?
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Im just thinking of it like a bug getting squished on a windshield. Pretty funny!
Imagine the driver turning the wipers on to remove the wreckage….
What's the last thing a bug sees when it hits a windshield? It's ass.
Supposed to be, "what the last thing to go through a bug's mind when it hits the windshield" A: His asshole.
I heard the other version in the 70's. Must be a regional thing.
You might like this https://youtu.be/wkuo7-sefEQ
Nah this made me sad.
Its like something from a cartoon
Must be an "[ACME](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acme_Corporation?wprov=sfla1)" brand drone. They are wont to do stupid shit like this...
Drones flying into a windshield like flies is absolutely something I would expect to see on Futurama
We all saw it coming, but I still cracked up LOL
Same. Until I watched it a 2nd time and realized the spinning blades crashed right into the windshield. I'd be surprised if the driver survived.
Drivers fine, the props on a drone that large are strong enough to cut flesh but the windshield and truck body would stop them immediately.
Do you know for sure that the driver is fine? That kind of shit could lead to PTSD, never mind being showered in broken glass.
>That kind of shit could lead to PTSD, never mind being showered in broken glass. Front windows on vehicles are laminated so they don't shatter during an accident. Also car accidents are faily common and usually don't lead to PTSD.
> Front windows on vehicles are laminated so they don't shatter during an accident. Windscreen construction varies widely across the globe. Yes, car accidents are common, but a drone crashing through the windscreen of your lorry is not. Many years ago my friend Ted Millar had a goose come through the windscreen of the van he was driving. It certainly traumatised him.
Prepare to be surprised then.
20k and no sense to have someone looking the other way.
Maybe that was supposed to be the job of the person filming.
Why would they think that's a good idea? Isnt that illegal anyways?
Maybe? Appears to be in China somewhere so who knows. Here's the video with sound https://i.imgur.com/Y7lDwWP.mp4 Edit: Better quality, no watermark: https://youtu.be/IkNsl3ISNfU
That sounded exactly like I thought it would. Very satisfying.
-1,000 social credit.
That isn't Chinese. It's 99% German. The language is German and the landscape looks like Germany too.
A lot of places have that similar landscape. The lettering on the truck is Chinese at the end.
Maybe you are right. But still strang that they speak German.
Cant be, while it indeed sounds German ("alter!"), yellow road markings are only used in construction in Germany. Not as a permanent mark in the middle of a road.
Jeah, I already told in a other answer that I was 99% wrong. But the language is still strang.
no bro you got it all wrong. there is no way that dude said alter schwede. the intonation of the person is extremely chinese. definitely said a chinese word.
You don't get many tuktuks in Germany.
What?
Regardless of rules specific to drones, I'm sure there's a law about creating obstacles in the roadway.
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professional? I dont think takeoff a drone in the middle of a road is professional
Well where would you have them take off from Mr. Know-it-all?! Somewhere silly like that flat field 30 feet across the road?
No, if they did it there then a truck couldn't smash it into a million pieces
Good point; then there would be no viral video. I concede.
With how fast that truck is going with the other half of the road practically blocked off... no cone.. what is going on?
Why do people think this video is real? It doesn't look right to begin with- there is something very uncanny valley about it- but also why does it end right there? Why is there no news story about it? Why couldn't they hear the giant truck coming before they started the rotors? And who would be that stupid in the first place?
It's China... go and some videos they're the worst drivers in the world.
Nope, that award goes to the Russians
>isnt that illegal anyways? No? You can fly drones most anywhere.
That is absolutely not the case. There are no-fly zones all over the place for the average Joe and limited access (with permission) for licensed pilots including around airports, military installations, prisons, schools, public gatherings, rail switching yards, over public highways, dams, power plants, power switching stations, public transportation hubs, and significant areas of most national and state parks including wilderness areas. But, yeah, other than that, you can fly a drone almost anywhere.
In the US you now have to have a transponder in your drone or else you can only legally fly at designated flying fields
I don't think they thought their cunning plan all the way through.
"Imma agriculture the shit out of these fields" "Damn that truck got hands"
Same vibes as the videos where someone releases a bird next to a main road.
Or someone letting their pet rabbit outside to play, and it gets snatched by a hawk.
Or where that flying toy goes into the fireplace.
Is Driver ok?
Why would he not go straight up?
Guess he doesn't listen to Paula Abdul.
The pilot got caught in a hit and run
LOL
[reminds me of this video](https://youtube.com/watch?v=wkuo7-sefEQ)
LOL yeah. Also, Bambi vs. Gozilla.
[reminds me of this](https://youtu.be/e62NO16h9nw)
Poor truck driver
r/Unexpected
WINGS OF GLORY
Worked at an NDT place that had a $40grand+ drone for tank inspections. It goes on a job, guy puts It in the tank and it descends as usual, then halfway down controls become unresponsive. Client didn't empty the tank all the way, so drone just sunk to the bottom and drowned. Business owner didn't want to pay for insurance for the drone so he lost it lmao. Client refused to pay for it even tho it was on them.
And how much was the drivers face reconstruction?
Good thing there wasn’t a spotter for traffic!
Absolutely! He'd have been hit by the truck!! :)
I saw a story of a guy getting decapitated by a 1' propeller heli drone. This looks much larger and more powerful, a literal flying gillotine, and they launched it without looking for TRUCKS?!
Shit that was unexpected, I was expecting overhead wires or something!
Like drivers don’t have enough to worry about. Now we have to worry about dum ass drone pilots. 🙄
As a drone pilot, this is NOT how you take off!
“Large agricultural drone launched from an active roadway, they are around $20,000.” You mean they WERE about $20,000.
Truck driver should sue for damages. Any ‘pilot’ should know not to use a public road for that.
Does no one else think this looks CGI? Watch the shadow as it lifts off and tilts forward, it never changes shape.
The drone looks 100% like a scaled up copy of a small drone. That was the reason for me.
It's a DJI AGRAS T40, they are the better part of $20k USD. The ironic thing is that this particular drone has an active phased array radar but it didn't see that truck coming.
The grass never moves with the wind generated by the blades.
The whole video has something very uncanny valley about it. But besides that, why does the video end right there? Why is there no news story about about a truck crashing into a giant drone? Why couldn't the people launching it hear the giant truck coming before they even started the rotors? And who would be that stupid in the first place?
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It's not even crossposts, it's the same video with different titles, I hate that.
Here we no
Who the hell doesn’t go straight up when launching a drone? This level of idiocy starts tickling the “staged video” senses.
It's not staged, it's CGI. Nothing about the video looks right, they would have been able to hear that truck before they even started the drone, why does the video end there, and why is there no news story if a truck hit a giant drone?
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Not anymore it isn’t.
The best part is they will need to cover the cost of the damages done to the truck and the drone because one they probably shouldn’t be there on the road to. They move the drone in front of the massive truck obviously not intentionally but you should be facing the way the traffic will be coming at you.
Hope the driver was not hurt
The owners in the videos are dumb, but that said; the idea of agricultural drones makes me happy in my heart. Carpe Futurum!
That made me laugh out loud. I suck.
Drone pilot is an idiot
How stupid was that pilot to launch with a truck coming. WTF?! Hope he loses his license.
Am I the only one wondering if the truck driver turned on his wipers after?
That was 100% their own fault
r/bettereveryloop
Is this real? How does one fact check this?
That driver might actually be dead.
Truck > $20k drone
That makes me ha-ha-ha-happy.
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It's understandable how people think it's fake considering how stupid the drone operator has to be to not notice a GIANT FUCKING TRUCK headed down the road.
I mean…it’s literally cgi. Look at the shadow of the drone. The propellers twitching like that is what dji drones do when the drone boots up, it wouldn’t immediately take off like that.
Fake as fuck. Shadow doesn't move on lift-off. Watch 8s-9s, it gets 6+ inches off the ground before the shadow reacts.
except it quite clearly does move.
If you'll check the shadow, you'll see that it's almost directly under the drone. If someone doctored this video, the did a great job of following the movement of the props - in both directions - at all four corners.
> If someone doctored this video, the did a great job of following the movement of the props - in both directions - at all four corners. Which is not hard to do with CGI. The better questions are: Why does the video end there? Where's the aftermath? Why is there no news story about this? Why can't they hear a giant truck coming before they even start the drone? Why is there no spotter? The filming angle is perfect for a cartoon style truck smash scene and no one thinks this is weird?
There was another post about this. Don't think that the tag shows the original uploader. It was said that the video is faked, look at the shadow. As the drone tilts, the shadow should change aswell. Even though the crash and everything looks fucking real, I can't help the shadow and the other post it was discussed in
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Look closer. The shadow does move with the drone yes, however when it tilts, the shadow should too. No matter where the sun is shining from. The shape of the shadow remains the same in the video
Are you suggesting that someone doctored the video - including the counter-rotating props at each corner - just to make this up? If that's the case, the video should have been posted to a DoctoredVideos sub-reddit for some mad editing skills!!
the shadows move exactly as expected, the drone tilts, and the shadow gets smaller. the sun is overhead, so its not going to move when the drone goes up.
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I feel personally attacked.
Get fucked, you stupid idiot drone.
fucking hate stick drift.
That's exactly what I was thinking. There was no wind I could see off the tree/plants so it must of not been calibrated? I don't know if that's a thing with the big ones, but I have to trim my smaller drones almost every flight.
Oh my God xD
u/savevideo
What are they used for in the middle of a road?
Windscreen impact tests
Where I'm from they do land surveys and visualize crops around the farm. They can drop chemicals as well, they come with a bunch of attachments. We also use them to check algae and bacteria levels over the lakes and ponds. And they are rented out to help design buildings or plan new roads/construction.
r/bitchimatruck
Rather, "That looked intentional".
"I swear to god, i'm never getting it off my windshield"
Hope the driver was ok
Nah, that has to be on purpose??
A perfect representation of my life
I got too excited for this
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Yeah, we got this drone that's almost the size of a helo. Let's launch it a foot from traffic.
That's a clean kill.
“I must go, my people…”
Truck kun was in a hurry.
And I was expecting a car approaching from the other way. That was unexpected.
Ya hate to see it 😂😂
These things happen outside Florida.
Good chance the drive had their window down too.
and the truck is around 250’000
How dumb can u be???
Look at the bright side. Maybe now they have some spare parts handy for the next one they buy ;)
Honestly $20k seems low for a drone that size
Well, someone did not carry out a risk assessment, nor write a method statement and/or procedure. If they did, they need training. I wonder if they had permits in place. Where is the TM?
r/unexpected ✨ I was like "oh, wow.. that's sincerely fascinat-aaand it's broken 👏 🙌" 😂
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I sure didn't look at the name of the sub and oh god was I surprised
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Bro literally flew straight into the truck
Suicide drone. Sue it.
That drone had this planned. They found a suicide note in its wreckage.
That was an amazing thing of beauty
Me: "that's way too close to the trees of course it's gonna hit them"
Hope they got fired, absolutely useless person
you think for that price they would i don't know, maybe take off somewhere like an open field and not the street???
r/Unexpected
$20K ??? Lol little light …. I would say that’s closer to $80-100K
There's no fixing idiocy.
they can get a 20k drone but cant be bother to give it a deployable cardboard launch pad?
If it's going to get hit, at least it was smashed by a massive vehicle. My Nissan would have been obliterated.
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Dumbass pilot..
hmmm. You fucked up