14-02-2012, 05:22 PM
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[TD]Leon Emmett (Toronto)
(NEWS from the future we can still avoid...)
Second Accidental Child Death Mortifies Drone Manufacturers
Managing Director of Ryzky Aeronautics, Kurt Wilder, met with the
grieving parents of six-year-old Emma Child, to offer his heartfelt
condolences for the unfortunate death of their daughter due to a sensor
malfunction on one of their new GW-180 Civil Guard Drones. In a
prepared statement read at a ceremony in honor of Emma, Mr. Wilder
announced a donation of $1,000,000 to her school, as well as a new
RFID tracking system that would enable the school to protect their
students from kidnappers and sexual predators, and provide an additional
level of identification to better guide drone behavior.
Childs was found dead due to cardiac arrest as a result of being
struck by tazer darts fired by the drone, which was in pursuit of a
suspect who fled across the park in which she was playing. The suspect
was struck by a tazer dart and captured by the drone immediately after
the incident.
This tragic accident will likey fuel the controversy surrounding the
use of auxiliary policing drones in civilian habitation zones. A study
group formed last May to tackle issues relating to robotics enforcement,
and this latest tragedy will of necessity inform their deliberations.
Police departments have largely been eager to employ new policing
tools, although there have been growing voices of dissent in some
traditional-leaning quarters of the force when it comes to aerial
surveilance and interception drones. A.S.S.R.A.P.E., the Association of
Surveilance System Robotics and Proprietary Enablers has expressed a
desire that this terrible incident not cause a loss of confidence in
the valuable precision work performed by these vehicles in maintaining
an atmosphere of law and order - at home and abroad.
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[TD]Leon Emmett (Toronto)
(NEWS from the future we can still avoid...)
Second Accidental Child Death Mortifies Drone Manufacturers
Managing Director of Ryzky Aeronautics, Kurt Wilder, met with the
grieving parents of six-year-old Emma Child, to offer his heartfelt
condolences for the unfortunate death of their daughter due to a sensor
malfunction on one of their new GW-180 Civil Guard Drones. In a
prepared statement read at a ceremony in honor of Emma, Mr. Wilder
announced a donation of $1,000,000 to her school, as well as a new
RFID tracking system that would enable the school to protect their
students from kidnappers and sexual predators, and provide an additional
level of identification to better guide drone behavior.
Childs was found dead due to cardiac arrest as a result of being
struck by tazer darts fired by the drone, which was in pursuit of a
suspect who fled across the park in which she was playing. The suspect
was struck by a tazer dart and captured by the drone immediately after
the incident.
This tragic accident will likey fuel the controversy surrounding the
use of auxiliary policing drones in civilian habitation zones. A study
group formed last May to tackle issues relating to robotics enforcement,
and this latest tragedy will of necessity inform their deliberations.
Police departments have largely been eager to employ new policing
tools, although there have been growing voices of dissent in some
traditional-leaning quarters of the force when it comes to aerial
surveilance and interception drones. A.S.S.R.A.P.E., the Association of
Surveilance System Robotics and Proprietary Enablers has expressed a
desire that this terrible incident not cause a loss of confidence in
the valuable precision work performed by these vehicles in maintaining
an atmosphere of law and order - at home and abroad.
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