http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQJMqyPFb3s
Do watch the video before reading this post!
Amazing isn’t it? This would probably be our future delivery system and so many more.
Drone refers to the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV) controlled by remote control. They are usually used to take aerial photos, some are used in military and recently, Domino Pizza came up with this idea to use these drones as a delivery system. They are designed in such a way that it is portable, flexible and also reliable.
This picture shows, professor Haya Seike, Japan, who designed and produced counterrotating propeller drone. By using Microcomputer, and sensors, this drone is capable of flying upwards or downward vertically.
With the help of microcomputer equipped in the drone, it is able have a stable flight by adjusting the propeller and the tail wings.
Unfortunately, this drone is not ready for mass production due to the safety issue that the drone is facing now.
There are so many use of this drones but you might not have ever imagined so many of this drones are used to take a scene in a movie.
For Example, watch this : http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2013/08/used_a_drone_to_shoot_of_dalla.php
Furthermore, I believe many of you do remember the terror attack at Boston, not long ago. It was when the drone really came in and played an important role to capture the suspects. Equipped with 21st Century technologies, such as night vision camera, heat sensoring camera, it played a huge role capturing the suspects.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWcOEnXHfKo
Advantage of using the drones as a military use or for this case, for the enforcement on the law, is that we do not have participate and rist in the life threatening situations. The cost of such Drones may goes up from hundreds to thousands of dollars. Some of them may be extremely costly depending on its abilities and the technologies they are equipped with. However, how can money be compared with a person’s life?
Furthermore, the cost of drones are actually much more cost efficient and cheaper comparing to a real helicopter flying. Thus, many of the developed countries are investing more and more on the development of the drones.
Unfortunately, some argues that the use of drones may violate constitutional right to privacy. Like the development of Dynamite was intended to help the miners’ work done more efficiently. However, it became one of the worst inventions made by human, killing so many people.
Like all inventions have its own advantage and disadvantage, I think the idea of drone is actually really great. I hope that human think in such a way that technologies must only be used to help us, not misusing the technologies that were first developed to improve the way we live and improve our quality of life.
Links
http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1061461969
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicam
http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/04/technology/innovation/dominos-pizza-drone/index.html
http://blog.naver.com/esjpark?Redirect=Log&logNo=110173193068
http://blog.naver.com/esjpark?Redirect=Log&logNo=110172239267