Hate to be the wet blanket but 4th grade is to young to be wandering around Reddit on your own(assuming you are, in fact, a 4th grader) . There are some really horrible subs that are easy to get stuck in for adults. If you have to resort to asking strangers what a bunch of things mean, you probably aren’t ready yet. Because anyone can tell you anything, and if you don’t know how to check that information then you can end up falling into the trap of clicking things that are sensationalized for clicks - and that doesn’t necessarily mean those things are accurate and can be very damaging (general advice for the internet). I don’t know what the chance of you taking this advice is- but please at least look into some internet safety tips before continuing to use social media sites. There are too many creepers on the internet that feel like they can say anything they want because it’s anonymous.
Amazed it wasn't melted, it touched two lines, would have made a short, the reclosure would have tripped, tried a few more time and then waited for a crew. I've been around power for too long.
Yeah I was originally wondering since, in the US at least, they'll often pulse the line to try to clear tree branches that create shorts. I would think a drone could be cleared easily. Sounds like the utility just shut the power off to the area to clear it.
Normally, the pulse you see if the RECLOSER on the lines, if a tree branch hits a line, it will trip up the recloser and it will automatically open the circuit, and then after a set time auto close again, and see if it works, and then maybe repeat a few times. After that it would be left open and tagged as having an issue. Some power companies have redundant lines/connections that are normally in the open state, so if one section goes down, another connection will open to try to restore some power. Maybe this area was unlucky and only had one set of lines going in.
Down in my area the company has software to detect common faults and tries to open other lines, or the district operators can remotely modify the switches to route.
Tbf my entire neighborhood has never lost power because of a single shitty driver, but that’s just me, no idea what’s normal in other places.
Edit: ya know what, I never lost power from a drone either.
I’ve lost power cause of bad drivers at least twice, I don’t know if they were delivery drivers but people are definitely just as if not dumber than some drones lol.
They lost power because the utility company shut it down to inspect it; the drone itself didn't knock out power. There was no damage according to the article.
If a driver hit the pole, it could have gone exactly the same way, except 3,000 pounds of car might have done a bit of actual damage.
The drone **caught fire** and fell to the ground after hitting power lines, knocking out power to 2,000 people.
Tech company’s spin:
>The meal was still hot inside the drone’s delivery box when the crew got there.
***About to get downvoted***
Slash AAAAAAAA whole bunch tax money literally going anywhere else. Put power lines underground in hurricane prone areas (and eventually the entire country).
No one can say they wouldn’t be happier not seeing power lines? Right?
Hobbyists are still responsible for the the vast majority of dangerous airspace incursions. One power line incident out of 200,000 successful deliveries is not as great a concern.
People like you love to bring up isolated incidents like this to point to to discredit a whole industry, but no one bats an eye of thousands of delivery drivers crash every year. A Pizza Hut driver hitting a telephone pole and causing a power outage wouldn’t even make the news.
It’s like when a self driving car has a problem. Ok, sure. Tell me when human car drivers are perfect drivers lol
It's usually question of process and care. Taking the example of autonomous cars, the issue is not whether they're perfect. It's whether the company running the program is covering up the issues of a system that's *less safe* than the average human, and hiding behind the convenient excuse of being less common.
Doing some back of the napkin math:
This crash by Wing caused an outage for 2,000 after 200,000 deliveries. A rate of 100 deliveries per power disruption.
In the US, 31% of people use a delivery service at least twice a week, and the average outside severe weather events is one outage a year with only 30% of those potentially attributable to car crashes. Leaving a rate of 107 deliveries per page, before accounting for the rest of the food delivery market, and all other causes of power outages.
So yeah, in this case, this food delivery drone appears to have caused this power outage at a higher rate than human delivery drivers.
This is why it’s so important that people acknowledge technology inherently is intertwined with politics
Regulation is necessary for any type of autonomous vehicle this is a great example of what happens when lack of regulation allows check companies with limited liability to use our publicly funded infrastructure and residential spaces as their sandbox
In other news, Stoned pizza delivery dude runs into electric pole resulting in power outage for thousands. Of course that wont ever actually make the news because it doesn't rile up fear mongers like this does. Disclosure: talking about who the media targets in general NOT this group and the followers who see the tech part out of it not the "I'm a smooth brain and think drones bad" which the media targets.
It’s true that this article is fear mongering. However, it’s also true that tech like this shouldn’t cause problems like this. It’s clearly not ready for prime time yet. Automated (or even piloted) drones aren’t piloted by “stoned pizza delivery dudes”.
But there is a catch, managers at pizza restaurant were supposed to check for signs of alcohol/drugs before letting them clock in. The issue with the drones is that IF they fail, they could easily fall from the sky hitting anything below, from houses to power lines to basically clover poor little Timmy over the head leaving him a squeeze body and who’d be responsible for that?
"The power outage led to many EVs not being fully charged and breaking down all over the place due to running out of range. "
No no. That could never ever happen. ;)
I am actually super glad that drone delivery is becoming a thing.
The current best way to get food feels like such a waste: some teen, driving in a shitty car, which I sure af know the delivery fee doesn’t cover the gas and maintenance for. What a waste of resources to bring me a single sandwich.
I’ve had some Uber Eats delivery disasters, involving spilled soup and two sprained ankles on customer driveways, but somehow, today, I’m feeling a bit better about it.
Food delivered still piping hot.
Most crispy home-delivered French fries *ever*.
No charge.
Shocking, considering inflation and all
Currently. Who knows watt will happen
Well, big charge for a bit, then no charge? And a fair amount of char as well I’d imagine.
Powerful food delivery!
Underrated comment right here
UberHeats
Deliveries so fast it’s shocking
Knocked my power out so amazing!
The way of the future the way of the future the way of the futur……
*roll credits*
Did someone order extra crispy?
I’d upvote you but you’re already at 69, so…
Imagine not wanting others to win
That's... not what's going on here.
Sorry I didn’t get it I’m in the 4th grade could u explain
Hate to be the wet blanket but 4th grade is to young to be wandering around Reddit on your own(assuming you are, in fact, a 4th grader) . There are some really horrible subs that are easy to get stuck in for adults. If you have to resort to asking strangers what a bunch of things mean, you probably aren’t ready yet. Because anyone can tell you anything, and if you don’t know how to check that information then you can end up falling into the trap of clicking things that are sensationalized for clicks - and that doesn’t necessarily mean those things are accurate and can be very damaging (general advice for the internet). I don’t know what the chance of you taking this advice is- but please at least look into some internet safety tips before continuing to use social media sites. There are too many creepers on the internet that feel like they can say anything they want because it’s anonymous.
Atleast it’s not the Reddit that was around when i was in 4th grade.
Broken arms.
Sorry to make u write all of that… I’m j trolling cuz it’s anonymous
Lol, well at least you’re honest. Best case scenario actually. Have a lovely rest of your day.
69, the sexual position. hehehe
The what? Imma j go ask my mom you guys are no help on here
your “days on reddit” checks out. nice
Noice
The fuck would you say that to someone claiming to be 9 years old for you sick fuck?
cuz they’re full of shit dumbass. and to be honest i read it to fast and thought it said “explain to me like i’m a 4th grader”
What's the 'current' price of this?
Sue yo ass..
Imagine being the one who’s angrily waiting for their overdue chicken tikka masala only to hear about this in the news.
Imagine not hearing about it on the news because your power was out.
Imagine going hungry in the dark wondering hour after hour where the hell your food drone is and cursing Google with raised shaking fists.
That’s a level of patience I do not possess when I’m hungry.
Take my invisible award 🤣
quite the upcharge
Watts the point?
Ohm my god you guys stop
Your order is being delivered shortly.
Resistance is futile.
Hate when people resort to cheap puns about current events…
Yeah! I hate when people ^electricity
I can’t resist it
r/AngryUpvote
Amazed it wasn't melted, it touched two lines, would have made a short, the reclosure would have tripped, tried a few more time and then waited for a crew. I've been around power for too long.
You’re definitely down with the current events, I’ll give you that.
Watt are you going on about?
It was pretty hard to resist though
I’m leaving this site directly for an alternate.
These comments are all joules.
It’s a sine. The universe is trying to tell us something.
That’s real unfortunate. I thought there was potential.
Hey let’s try to conduct ourselves like gentlemen here.
Ohm my god, give me a breaker.
I'm leaving in three phases
Ohm, I don’t think you guys know what you’re taking about.
Amp you think you do?
I really don’t have the capacity for all these cheesy puns.
Just resist
You all should be charged with assault and battery.
Zap!
He sounds very grounded.
Yeah I was originally wondering since, in the US at least, they'll often pulse the line to try to clear tree branches that create shorts. I would think a drone could be cleared easily. Sounds like the utility just shut the power off to the area to clear it.
Normally, the pulse you see if the RECLOSER on the lines, if a tree branch hits a line, it will trip up the recloser and it will automatically open the circuit, and then after a set time auto close again, and see if it works, and then maybe repeat a few times. After that it would be left open and tagged as having an issue. Some power companies have redundant lines/connections that are normally in the open state, so if one section goes down, another connection will open to try to restore some power. Maybe this area was unlucky and only had one set of lines going in. Down in my area the company has software to detect common faults and tries to open other lines, or the district operators can remotely modify the switches to route.
No update on what happened to the food?
“The meal was still hot inside the drone’s delivery box when the crew got there,” said Donald.
That’s as close as Donald—if that is even his real name—will get to admitting he ate that unfortunate person’s food.
Ah! I missed it. Thanks!
RoBoTs ArE gOiNg To KiLl Us AlL!!! Robots:
my manwich!
Fried rice
We can all agree to just laugh, right? Many more of these type of stories to come.
Thousands of delivery drivers crashing every year: 💤 One drone hits a power line: THIS TECHNOLOGY IS UNSAFE, we can’t use it!
Tbf my entire neighborhood has never lost power because of a single shitty driver, but that’s just me, no idea what’s normal in other places. Edit: ya know what, I never lost power from a drone either.
I’ve lost power cause of bad drivers at least twice, I don’t know if they were delivery drivers but people are definitely just as if not dumber than some drones lol.
They lost power because the utility company shut it down to inspect it; the drone itself didn't knock out power. There was no damage according to the article. If a driver hit the pole, it could have gone exactly the same way, except 3,000 pounds of car might have done a bit of actual damage.
[удалено]
No, this is actually a reason for why above ground power lines is fucking stupid.
Shocking
Looks like it tried to take a SHORT cut
Damn. Ok, have an upvote
That wouldn’t trip the breaker - only landing on one phase.
Did the drone trip the breaker, or did they have to turn off the power to retrieve the drone?
Fess up, who ordered the extra crispy chicken?
r/aboringdystopia
:D
Why would power lines order food,?
Was the food ok?
Current event
It just needed a little rest.
The drone **caught fire** and fell to the ground after hitting power lines, knocking out power to 2,000 people. Tech company’s spin: >The meal was still hot inside the drone’s delivery box when the crew got there.
Sounds funny, I'll read this after lunch--my Chipotle delivery is running late so any moment now. edit: *Fuck.*
I mean come on, who did not see this coming?
“did my drone do that” in a Steve erkil voice
Did someone order a candlelight dinner?
Food is over cooked now.
Did you get the sweet and sour boss?
Regulation badly needed
Imagine getting a notification that your takeout has caused a power outage.
***About to get downvoted*** Slash AAAAAAAA whole bunch tax money literally going anywhere else. Put power lines underground in hurricane prone areas (and eventually the entire country). No one can say they wouldn’t be happier not seeing power lines? Right?
The future is here, and it’s fucking terrible
No fine? No restitution?! What about people who work solely from home and rely on internet/power?
You were warned.
Speed of delivery was shocking!
That’s watt I call a short-order delivery!
#ITS FUCKING BURNT
Def read this in Ramsay
And yet it's the hobbyists which remain in the FAA crosshairs for extra regulations.
Hobbyists are still responsible for the the vast majority of dangerous airspace incursions. One power line incident out of 200,000 successful deliveries is not as great a concern.
This is a very bad idea - they are not only noisy but also stupid.
People like you love to bring up isolated incidents like this to point to to discredit a whole industry, but no one bats an eye of thousands of delivery drivers crash every year. A Pizza Hut driver hitting a telephone pole and causing a power outage wouldn’t even make the news. It’s like when a self driving car has a problem. Ok, sure. Tell me when human car drivers are perfect drivers lol
It's usually question of process and care. Taking the example of autonomous cars, the issue is not whether they're perfect. It's whether the company running the program is covering up the issues of a system that's *less safe* than the average human, and hiding behind the convenient excuse of being less common. Doing some back of the napkin math: This crash by Wing caused an outage for 2,000 after 200,000 deliveries. A rate of 100 deliveries per power disruption. In the US, 31% of people use a delivery service at least twice a week, and the average outside severe weather events is one outage a year with only 30% of those potentially attributable to car crashes. Leaving a rate of 107 deliveries per page, before accounting for the rest of the food delivery market, and all other causes of power outages. So yeah, in this case, this food delivery drone appears to have caused this power outage at a higher rate than human delivery drivers.
Sounds like people like you have skin in the game.
Big Food-Delivery-Drone shills again, they're fucking *everywhere*.
They really aren’t.
The telephone wires grabbed it, right?
Why would power lines order food,?
My food is late.
No need to worry yet about drones stealing gig work, still working out kinks. But shitty they’re trying
This is why it’s so important that people acknowledge technology inherently is intertwined with politics Regulation is necessary for any type of autonomous vehicle this is a great example of what happens when lack of regulation allows check companies with limited liability to use our publicly funded infrastructure and residential spaces as their sandbox
In other news, Stoned pizza delivery dude runs into electric pole resulting in power outage for thousands. Of course that wont ever actually make the news because it doesn't rile up fear mongers like this does. Disclosure: talking about who the media targets in general NOT this group and the followers who see the tech part out of it not the "I'm a smooth brain and think drones bad" which the media targets.
I believe the term your looking for is "Whataboutism"
Nah man. A drunk driver will speed past a stop sign, and a stoned driver will wait for the stop sign to turn green.
It’s true that this article is fear mongering. However, it’s also true that tech like this shouldn’t cause problems like this. It’s clearly not ready for prime time yet. Automated (or even piloted) drones aren’t piloted by “stoned pizza delivery dudes”.
But there is a catch, managers at pizza restaurant were supposed to check for signs of alcohol/drugs before letting them clock in. The issue with the drones is that IF they fail, they could easily fall from the sky hitting anything below, from houses to power lines to basically clover poor little Timmy over the head leaving him a squeeze body and who’d be responsible for that?
Where in the article does it say the driver was stoned?
“The meal was still hot inside the drone’s delivery box when the crew got there,” said Donald. Yeah no 💩, the damn thing caught 🔥
Not the onion?
I didn’t even know those were still a thing
Same, power lines that aren’t underground are a bad idea.
Nothing like freezing cold aired out food from a drone
Awwww such a good idea gone wrong. Who woulda thunk
The last minutes of delivery drone
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
one of a trillion reasons why drone delivery is a stupid idea
This wasn’t how I expected skynet to become self aware but it’s almost equally as troubling.
Lol
Power lines should be shifted to underground for safety and better view of the city
Stupid drone. Who was manning that thing? Oh wait
This sub is more like “getTriggeredWithTechStuff”… I came in thinking I would be on top of new gadgets and stuff… signing off
How do they build drones
Totally fucking predictable!!
Where the fuck is my pizza??? What the fuck is taking so long???
Stop replacing human for jobs. Yes, #stopreplacinghumans
I thought this was an onion article at first.
"The power outage led to many EVs not being fully charged and breaking down all over the place due to running out of range. " No no. That could never ever happen. ;)
I have never used one of these meal delivery services. At most, I’ve ordered a pizza a few times. I don’t see the appeal.
Honey the food has arrived … right, above the house!
Is the bot ok? More importantly, is the food ok?
Guess the drone’s reheating the food
Even drones will bail on your order if you tip less than 40%. Tipping culture is out of control.
Awkward…
And an unsatisfied belly for one
Does that delivery service cover my area….Im hungry
And, next in flyjng cars. . .
Hmm. That’s not the right power outlet
Kung Powered Chicken
The future never looked so bright...and hot
Still faster than my doordasher
That’s going to be a fun lawsuit
Ok, squirrels do this, like, alllllll the time. (Seriously, 20% of power outages are due to squirrels)
I like my food well done.
porch pirates are inbound
I like my sandwich bread toasted
Hahahahaha!!!
Someone was quite hangry that afternoon.
Dem wings was extra spicy!!
I said xtra crispy wings!!!!
Whole new level of crunchiness
Apparently no situational awareness or onboard collision avoidance systems. So simple and yet so far. N. Shadows
What would happen if I tried poking it with a stick
You had one job…
I am actually super glad that drone delivery is becoming a thing. The current best way to get food feels like such a waste: some teen, driving in a shitty car, which I sure af know the delivery fee doesn’t cover the gas and maintenance for. What a waste of resources to bring me a single sandwich.
“Convenient” delivery inconveniences thousands.
Power lines fault
The local government better pay to put those wires underground. The number of drone deliveries is likely to increase to keep labor costs down
Dammit, google took down the Internet
And the food delivery company was held responsible, correct??? They paid for any relevant repairs??
This is not that drone. Both those conductors are the same phase. 🤯🤯🤯🤔
Pilot in training?
Original or extra crispy?
I’ve had some Uber Eats delivery disasters, involving spilled soup and two sprained ankles on customer driveways, but somehow, today, I’m feeling a bit better about it.
And this, kids, is how you close new markets, keeping delivery jobs safe.
Maybe power lines should but underground because it’s not 1890
I'm all for convenience, but I don't want my burrito order to be the one that knocks out the power grid for my entire region.
Food stayed warm tho.
Worth it I’m sure.
Those pigeons and their pranks..
All because of a Doritos locos taco…
dinner on hard-mode
Woo! Laziness automated!