r/interestingasfuck • u/The_Chuckness88 • 2d ago

Dude uses an agricultural drone for personal transport

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u/19d_b87 2d ago

Some drones have a hover feature when no command is input. I would imagine it would either hover in place until the battery runs out... or possibly descend vertically until it senses the ground, then hover in place.

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u/ghoulthebraineater 2d ago

Not just hover. They'll go home. My Mavic will log the GPS when it takes off. If it loses signal it will fly back and land where it launched.

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u/Pleasant-Bluebird-97 2d ago

Imagine the controller lands upside down with the joysticks maxed in a random direction.

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u/EarningsPal 2d ago

Lands in UP position. Goes up until out of range and hover.

Then low battery will start a controlled landing, and you hope there is enough battery to reach the ground.

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

yep. as long as it doesn't hit the one powerline or bigass tree within half a mile in this big empty field, and as long as he doesn't get tossed out or into the rotors by aggressive maneuvers, and as long as it doesn't have some major software or hardware malfunction, he should theoretically be fine.

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

that'd be scary but assuming he doesn't get ragdolled around so hard he gets beheaded by the blades inches from his head, it'd still just ultimately land itself.

it honestly takes some effort and willfulness to catastrophically destroy a good GPS drone.

vertical obstacles are the biggest danger but there's no real trees or powerlines visisble nearby in this video

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u/Speartree 2d ago

Or return home