Florida schools introducing armed drones that respond to shootings within seconds (www.techspot.com)
from geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to technology@lemmy.ml on 26 Aug 20:40
https://lemmy.ml/post/35258595

While the drones are armed, they use non-lethal or less-lethal weaponry, allowing them to distract, disorient, confront, degrade, and incapacitate shooters, according to the company. They carry pepper rounds and a glass breaker for quickly entering classrooms.

Despite not carrying lethal firepower, having 30 to 90 of these drones in schools has raised concerns. Beyond any potential technical issues, there’s always the possibility they could make a shooting situation even worse or more complicated. There are question marks over the kind of training the operators receive, too. Then there’s the storage safety aspect, as well as the potential of a drone colliding with a student or law enforcement as it zooms through corridors at 50mph.

We’ll find out how successful the system is soon enough. Campus Guardian Angel aims to install the drones in the schools permanently in September and October, ahead of the fully operational live service starting in January.

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LyD@lemmy.ca on 26 Aug 22:53 next collapse

Calling it now, we’ll see 30-90 pepper ball armed drones descend on a protest in the US within the next two years.

Maeve@kbin.earth on 27 Aug 11:32 next collapse

I was thinking how wild the US government has declared open war on their citizens and citizens are "ho hum."

technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 27 Aug 14:19 collapse

Pepperball is too soft. They’re already shooting reporters in the face with rubber bullets.

Check out the genocide in Palestine if you want a preview of the tech coming to the imperial core.

wewbull@feddit.uk on 27 Aug 00:52 next collapse

While the drones are armed, they use non-lethal or less-lethal weaponry,

Less lethal? So still lethal.

Why is everyone so keen on making Terminator real?

i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de on 27 Aug 03:04 next collapse

How long until one is hijacked?

azimir@lemmy.ml on 27 Aug 05:40 next collapse

Anything except dealing with the problem itself.

I left the US and took my kids. We no longer have to deal with active shooter drills and school shootings are a national tragedy here, with about one per decade.

Have your cyberpunk drones and children terror drills, but make sure you can still have your guns!

aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 27 Aug 07:36 next collapse

Because doing something about the guns would be too easy.

No way to prevent this says only country where this happens daily

What was that about protecting kids that they’re so fond of?

astutemural@midwest.social on 27 Aug 08:00 collapse

10 bucks says a student is gonna slam a door too hard or light up in school or whatever, and one of these Child Skull Destroyers is gonna absolutely merc them.