I love that we as a species choose to focus on this instead of helping people...I mean, wait, this is for helping people...ermh, I think?

As someone who has done real search and rescues a few times, y'all do stupid shit like this. Alzheimer patients wander about without pattern. Try tracking one of them in a forest. I got 2 of those tee shirts.

I'm always relieved to hear that all of the nefarious bullshit done in the world today is for my safety. /s

They don't advertise anything about rescue of anyone in the post, obvious use case is marathons and other sports.

For military uses it's semi useless. Lidars are expensive, can be easily seen by intended targets for that reason. Actual combat single use drones are flying without any gps most of the time, you can easily achieve last meters where you can't see or control a drone with raspberry pi and a camera (easy, cheap, requires little expertise, triggered by switch on a radio).

Everyone gonna need portable emp blaster to deal with this nightmare soon.

I already see drones being used in broadcasts of ultraruns and triathlons. So at least that is a legitimate non authoritarian usage.

So when these drones start murdering civilians in war zones and 'securitised' zones who are hiding in the bushes from fascists and genociders these developers are going to be sent to jail for their share of those murders and crimes against humanity right? Right?...

Israel: GIMME GIMME GIMME!

Every single piece of drone research I see makes me want to scream in someone's face. I don't believe there is a single drop of research that won't be turned into a tool for oppression within my lifetime.