JESUS CHRIST AGAIN? U.S drone crashes in Seychelles - embassy

[Doofernaut]

[QUOTE=Chinook249;33702583]They need an auto-detonate button[/QUOTE]

It isn't automatically detonating if you press a button to detonate it.

[Contag]

[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;33703673]Drones go down [I]all the time[/I]. As promising as they are, we've hardly perfected the technology, and mechanical, electrical, and operator failures are very common.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I don't know why people expect drones to never crash, as though they're not normal planes that crash all the time, but with a few additional levels of complexity.

[JumpinJackFlash]

[QUOTE=Contag;33711789]Yeah, I don't know why people expect drones to never crash, as though they're not normal planes that crash all the time, but with a few additional levels of complexity.[/QUOTE]This, and RC shit fails ALL the time for a great many reasons. A normal plane, if it has a problem, has somebody on board to fix the problem. A drone is essentially given a series of orders and then expected to act on them. If something goes wrong, and you can't tell the drone anything new, the original problem suddenly becomes a bigger one. Allow me to explain in simpler terms for people who might not understand:

It's like giving a five year old a shopping list. Eventually, you'll get chocolate milk, cadbury eggs, a few daisies picked along the way and a fuckton of candy when you originally sent him in for cake ingredients. You have no way to instruct the five year old that, no, flowers are not flour, and chocolate eggs aren't suitable replacements for real eggs, you're incapable of fixing the minor misunderstandings. Even if the little guy bought everything correctly, he might get hit by a car on the way home. Perhaps, even, he might get picked up by a strange Iranian guy in a van and he won't come home at all.

[Meller Yeller]

Oops

Title made me think this was about the second coming