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Texas Schools Add Attack Drones To Protect Students (www.dallasobserver.com)

submitted 4 days ago by Dadifer@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 11 points 4 days ago (4 children)

The bigger question is when they'll have these patrolling the streets... At least they're human-operated, for now.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 3 days ago (4 children)

The article doesn't actually specify that they're human operated. From the way it's described it could easily be just one human managing a swarm of 100 autonomous drones and taking control or issuing commands to individual drones as they see the need to

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[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Oh hey I've seen this one before

Gaige and Deathtrap (Borderlands)

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[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Can't wait for students to start bringing Flipper Zeroes in so they can mass pepper spray the cafeteria

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

Wouldn't have to if they'd actually season the food but no reasonable person expects a miracle.

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So a school shooter can defeat the drones with an army surplus gasmask .....got it.

[–] remon@ani.social 5 points 3 days ago

And some earplugs.

[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Texas is Alabama levels of stupid, but because they have money no one ever makes that connection.

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[–] RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So an unskilled operator is going to blow up the wrong student.

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