Lengthy-time Slashdot reader maxcelcat writes: A fleet of some 500 drives have been performing a show over Melbourne’s Docklands within the lead as much as the FIFA Ladies’s World Cup. About 350 of them did not come again and are actually being fished out of the Yarra River, little doubt considerably worse for put on.
In line with the operators, the drones skilled some sort of malfunction or lack of sign, which triggered a fail protected — an automatic touchdown. So lots of of drones landed safely… on the floor of a river!
One native newscaster referred to as it “a spectacular malfunction” (in a report with a transient clip of the drones gently reducing themselves into the water).
The report additionally notes one other drone firm additionally as soon as misplaced 50 drones in a river — price tens of 1000’s of {dollars} — throughout a Christmas present.
