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Vivid Sydney drone shows cancelled for now after malfunction saw 89 drones fall into the harbour (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 1 week ago by zero_gravitas@aussie.zone to c/sydney@aussie.zone

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In short:

Vivid Sydney festival's drone show has been cancelled for now after a technical malfunction on Monday night.

The drone show's operator says a change in radio frequency caused 89 drones to fall into the harbour around Cockle Bay.

What's next?

A Vivid Sydney spokesperson says Tuesday and Wednesday's drone shows will not go ahead, with no decision yet made for Sunday's show.

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[–] arbilp3@aussie.zone 4 points 1 week ago

A bit creepy that they started falling while portraying DNA.

[–] No1@aussie.zone 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think I'd like to hear @SenatorCollins@aussie.zone response to this.

[–] SenatorCollins@aussie.zone 6 points 1 week ago

Well, there are a lot of these shows going on around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don’t want people thinking that drones aren’t safe.

[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Did they fish them out? That's a lot of pollution

[–] Baggie@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've always questioned how they co-ordinate these things to prevent situations like this.

I guess the answer is they don't?

[–] Dimand@aussie.zone 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's possibly cheaper to just buy new drones instead of making software that only has a chance of them returning home without rtk GPS.

The general rule with drones is it's safer for them to fall out of the sky when something goes wrong.

[–] Baggie@lemmy.zip 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I mean the article made it sound like drones nearly hit people, idk about the safer part.

[–] Dimand@aussie.zone 2 points 6 days ago

Oh it's still an issue formaure. But falling on someone is usually considered safer than flying into them with props powered on.