Welp! The chances of shaking those surveillance drones in the looming apocalypse just got a little lower thanks to Red Bull and The Dutch Drone Gods team (yes, that's what they call themselves).
The drone team built the world‘s first drone capable of reaching speeds over 200 mph and making razor sharp turns, then put it up against the number one driver in Formula One, Max Verstappen, driving Red Bull's Oracle.
WATCH:
The drone kept up with him like it was nothing, even on a rainy day!
The driver said,
This could change how people watch Formula 1.
Yeah, that's cool and all, but wait until you're trying to flee California and Newsom sends a swarm of these suckers to find you.
Formula One legend David Coulthard watched on from the sidelines and marveled:
You can't help but be really, really impressed… just the visual speed of it actually going around. It just ‘zooms' and disappears. It's really impressive.
Shaggy, aka Ralph Hogenbirk, the drone's pilot said,
Even though this drone looks really cool, and it's working like it's intended to, there's a lot more we can do, obviously. I think one of the things we should do is try to get a high-quality live video feed from it, so we can use it for live streaming. And then it's further testing and proving that this drone is safe, reliable. It would be cool to have one drone covering the track in live races, but maybe in the future we will have multiple drones. Who knows?
And somewhere out there, some shady government operatives, looking for more ways to surveil the population, watched on like this:
Shout out to Not the Bee user @gamilus for the heads up on this story.
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