Amazon Delivery Drone Crashes into Texas Apartment Building (yahoo.com)
- Reference: 0180758492
- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/02/08/2321202/amazon-delivery-drone-crashes-into-texas-apartment-building
- Source link: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/amazon-delivery-drone-strikes-north-200215635.html
"Amazon tells us there was minimal damage to the apartment building, adding they are working with the appropriate people to handle any repairs." But there were people standing outside, notes the woman who filmed the crash, and the falling drone "could've hit them, and they would've hurt."
More [2]from USA Today :
> Cesarina Johnson, who captured the collision from her window, told USA TODAY that the collision seemed to happen "almost immediately" after she began to record the drone in action... "The propellers on the thing were still moving, and you could smell it was starting to burn," Johnson [3]told Fox 4 News . "And you see a few sparks in one of my videos. Luckily, nothing really caught on fire where it got, it escalated really crazy." According to the outlet, firefighters were called out of an abundance of caution, but the "drone never caught fire...."
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> Amazon employees can be seen surveying the scene in the clip. Johnson told the outlet that firefighters and Amazon workers worked together to clean up before the drone was loaded into a truck.
[4]Another local news report points out Amazon only began drone delivery in the area late last year.
The [5] San Antonio Express News points out that America's Federal Aviation Administration " [6]opened an investigation into Amazon's drone delivery program in November after one of its drone struck an Internet cable line in Waco."
[1] https://youtu.be/1sbYC5GN9Zo
[2] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/02/07/delivery-drone-amazon-crash-texas-apartment/88565912007/
[3] https://www.fox4news.com/news/video-amazon-delivery-drone-crashes-texas
[4] https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/amazon-drone-crash-richardson-texas-delivery-dfw/287-ac8955c8-7760-42af-8104-287d092b10fc
[5] https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/amazon-delivery-drone-strikes-north-200215635.html
[6] https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/faa-probes-amazon-mk30-drone-161052458.html
Looking forward to their first kill (Score:3)
It's only a matter of time.
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call jeff bezos to the stand.
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That is pretty sick that you are looking forward to someone getting killed.
But if it does excite you so much, I suggest tracking Amazon / UPS / FedEx delivery truck fatalities instead. You'll get to enjoy hearing about a few fatalities every month.
Customers fault (Score:2)
They selected deliver to door not to locker...
WTF? (Score:3)
Now if I had a drone flying around, for whatever the purpose, and crashed it into someone's apartment building, I'm pretty sure that I'd be arrested and facing all matter of criminal charges. In fact, I could expect a raid by feds and I'd be looking down the barrel of an MP5. But because it's Big Tech(tm) it will get washed away. How degenerate this society has become.
Has become? (Score:3)
There has never been any point in history, including pre-recorded history, during which humans acted in a fair and reasonable fashion as a group.
Those in power (whether their power be derived from wealth or political influence) are held to a different standard from everyone else. It has always been this way. It was this way when we were hunter-gatherers living in forests and caves. It was this way before we even qualified as humans.
This is not a quirk of culture or circumstance. This is a property of hu
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I agree with you to a point. I'd say since the early 1900's when monopolies started getting attention and women started clamoring for a vote, the get out of jail free card by the elite started taking a hit. And by the 1960's to around 2000, I'd say uniform treatment continued to improve. Since the 2000's its been downhill. The current trajectory we are on will get us back to the feudal system in short order. Part of that I think is the decline of old media. Would we have a watergate today as just one exampl
Re: WTF? (Score:2)
> Now if I had a drone flying around, for whatever the purpose, and crashed it into someone's apartment building, I'm pretty sure that I'd be arrested and facing all matter of criminal charges. In fact, I could expect a raid by feds and I'd be looking down the barrel of an MP5.
No, you wouldn't, accidental property damage without injury to a person is not a criminal offense.
Intentional property damage is a crime, but this was not intentional.
Bodily injury is a crime, but no one was hurt.
If you lose control of your car (accidentally) and hit someone's home and do not cause bodily harm to anyone, you are responsible for the repairs, you aren't charged with a criminal offense, you don't go to jail, and your home will not be raided by federal agents.
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On what charges?
Sounds exactly like the time (Score:2)
a photographer flew a drone into a building at my cousins wedding, just on a smaller scale.
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And they weren't immediately arrested, raided by the feds, faced down the barrel of an MP5, etc, etc...? Huh. Fancy that.
Re: Sounds exactly like the time (Score:2)
Why was the sock wet?
Guess what hurts more than getting hit by a drone? (Score:2)
Getting run over by an Amazon delivery truck.
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Or having one of their drones collide with your head.
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Would you rather be hit by 50 drone sized trucks, or one truck sized drone?
Re: In Texas (Score:2)
I can - you'd be responsible for fixing the damage, and your drone operation would be examined to establish if you were following all relevant rules and regulations.
It really isn't hard to imagine what would happen - it's just about the same process as if you hit an apartment building with your car...
There's your problem (Score:2)
If you didn't build that apartment building, there wouldn't have been the crash. Duh.
Re: If I crashed a done into a building (Score:2)
On what charge? Seriously, this makes no sense.
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Elderly people drive into buildings all the time. Nothing happens besides their insurance premium going up.
The governor... (Score:1)
Greg Abbot just gave a speech where he apologized on behalf of Texas for any corporate profit losses that this may have caused.
And then ... (Score:1)
... WTC 7 collapsed.
news priorities (Score:2)
I wonder how many cars ran into buildings that same day? or that week, or that month?
The only reason we hear about this is it's novel.
It's like comparing airplane crashes with car crashes. Frequency of occurrence: 1:10,000. Frequency of media coverage: 10,000:1
It's impossible to tell how unusual something is baed on whether or not it made the 6:00 news.
Amazon will pay out nothing you need to sue the DS (Score:2)
Amazon will pay out nothing you need to sue the DSP
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If I crashed a drone into an apartment building, I'd be arrested.
Re:Amazon will pay out nothing you need to sue the (Score:5, Insightful)
Just become a billionaire and you’ll be fine.
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so the low wage worker does the hard time and has no funds to pay out and no one up chain takes an hit. with the victim being out of pocket.
Re: Amazon will pay out nothing you need to sue th (Score:2)
Amazon is already working on the repairs to the building, that seems like the correct first step since no one was actually hurt in the incident... as for fines, OK, I'd love to hear the law/regulation that says when an autonomous drone hits a building, you have to pay a fine (or do jail time) - and no, if your personal drone hit a building and didn't hurt anyone you wouldn't go to jail, accidental damage to a building isn't a criminal offense