Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Racing drones at 100 MPH in the Las Vegas Drone Rodeo”.
There’S no there’s nobody helping! You, like you know with every camera drone that I test out for The Verge. If you let go of the sticks, it just sits there with this one. If you let go the sticks, it’s going to fall. Basically out of the sky.
You always have to be working the throttle and, like I don’t know, what’s what’s the difference, it’s like taking the training wheels off. You just hit the ground. Oh everybody’s been topper here for CES 2017, I’m not actually at CES, I’m in the desert near Boulder City.
Just outside the restricted airspace for Las Vegas, that’s because we’re here for the CES of drones, place where everybody can fly these aircraft without having to worry about cutting somebody’s nose off and the exciting thing today. Is we get to try out the dracco in the past when you want it to have a racing drone? You had to build it yourself, you have know how to program and how to solder. This is the first race and run you can just buy off the shelf and go a hundred miles an hour. What are the pieces that make this a racing drone and you know, differentiate it from like the DJI phantom, that everybody knows it’s basically trying to compare like a Ferrari to just like a general minivan or something like that like it’s, the in terms of like the General idea is the same, but everything is just more powerful right. They obviously got four motors for props on this required to fly. You’Ve also got a camera up the front here, so this is the HD version of the dracco. So this actually streams 720p was almost zero latency. So this system is very fast and that’s required for racing, so you have to be able to dodge gates dodge whatever you’re flying around. So you know I’ve flown a lot of drones, doing reviews, but these are you know, camera quads for consumers I feel like.
I would have no idea how to handle something that goes 100 miles an hour. I mean. Is it safe to like put this on the shelf at Best Buy where anybody can grab it yeah, I would say the nice thing about them is that you can to tone them down so that if you’re just learning, you can go beginner settings and I kind Of lowers down, so you won’t be able to 100 miles per hour.
Maybe you can go like 30 kind of around the backyard if you break something or if something’s wrong, everything is modular around this device in some shape or form. If you break a motor arm pop that out, tronics internally well protected so, but it’s still managed to break it. Replaceable I mean I’ve flown in many many drones, but not a drone that goes 100 miles an hour and his full manual and it’s different. When you had like the fpv on cuz like you’re, you don’t have that situational awareness, so many ways. This could go wrong for me or for the people around me, okay, so they brought me out here where I’m far away and maybe can’t hurt anybody and I’m gon na do my best to fly this restaurant, not crash or kill. Myself should be fun all right here.
We go. You ready! Oh yeah, oh well, too far. Okay, how’s, that better! Am i coming down drop it look.
You just hit the ground! Oh, why? Let’S go see what’s left of this drunk, never gon na break it down! For parts anyway, I was just helping disassembler. Oh man, sorry about that little guy, I’m still in one piece. Well, I’ve flown a lot of drones.
I thought I knew what I was doing, but as soon as I put those fpv goggles on it was a whole different. Ballgame still got a lot to learn. Ces claims, another victim fly, safe, kids, .