E bikes rampaging Toronto streets

[GreyGhost]

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On another note, I wonder how far we are away from directed EMP devices that can basically switch off electrical equipment? Ali express versions of those would be hilarious fun switching off the methheads preferred mode of transport while they are raiding Amazon papackages.

That exists now for drones. Cops aim a directional antenna at it and I think that makes it lose connection to the transmitter. It then lowers itself slowly for cops to grab. I think birdshot would be faster, orders of magnitude cheaper and not much more dangerous but cops like toys and budgets like spending.

 

[Dirty Frank]

Joseph Lucas didn't die. He moved to China.

Do the Chinese like warm beer?

 

[backmarkerducati]

On Bloor near Yonge yesterday, there was a collision between one of the motorcycle/sportbike looking ones and a car, I did not see the accident but I suspect the car was turning into a garage and the guy (in the bike lane based, likely flying as they all do) collided... normally the car's fault, maybe still was.

Anyways as I am walking by I hear the car driver asking him for his license and insurance... and the guy is trying to explain why he does not have them. I couldn't resist sticking my nose in.

me: that is an electric motorcycle
emoto guy: yes that is what it is, I don't need a license and insurance
me: sorry, you removed the pedals, when you did that it stopped being an ebike and now it is a motorcycle. You need a proper license and insurance to ride a motorcycle.
emoto guy: stunned look.
me: it is basically an uninsured motorcycle and you also have no motorcycle license, that is illegal.
car guy: thanks for the info....

I then moseyed on. No idea how it turned out...

 

[adri]

Electric bike (not an ebike) vs TPS chase. TPS lost bad.

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Smart thinking. He used the restricted TTC vehicles only lanes because he knew even the cops aren't allowed on there anymore.

Exactly. I think the thing in the video is perhaps a Stark Varg... those things are insane.

Doesn't need to be anything that expensive. My Talaria MX-5 would comfortably do 90+ km/hr, and when my body was broken from the car accident last summer and just breathing hurt, I sold it because I knew I wouldnt' be riding much let alone off-roading... all I got for that thing was $5k from a buddy.

Used E-stuff is cheap. Really good used E-stuff isn't too bad either.

That exists now for drones. Cops aim a directional antenna at it and I think that makes it lose connection to the transmitter. It then lowers itself slowly for cops to grab. I think birdshot would be faster, orders of magnitude cheaper and not much more dangerous but cops like toys and budgets like spending.

Is this real life or urban legend?

Asking because every drone I ever owned, once it loses connection, it doesn't lower itself slowly lol. Any drone I've had for the last 3 years registers a "home point" (the launch point) when they first take off. When it loses connection to the controller, it waits a programmed amount of time (I think I remember that you can set that in your settings), and then if no connection is resumed, it just returns back to the home point. Likewise if the battery is too low, and it can't reconnect to your control after waiting there, it will just return back to the launch point.

They do this because, you know... people fly over water, and plenty of other stuff and things far from where they launch. The idea is you always launch from a safe open area, so if you ever lose connection to your drone, it has LOTS of space to return home.

Typically if I'm flying across a lake at the in-law's cottage (I could get about 3 KM range over open water) I would launch the drone from the other side of the house while I sit on the dock, that way if anything goes wrong, the drone returns to the other side of the cottage, and doesn't accidentally miss the end of the dock where i'm sitting and end up submarining lol

 

[GreyGhost]

Smart thinking. He used the restricted TTC vehicles only lanes because he knew even the cops aren't allowed on there anymore.



Doesn't need to be anything that expensive. My Talaria MX-5 would comfortably do 90+ km/hr, and when my body was broken from the car accident last summer and just breathing hurt, I sold it because I knew I wouldnt' be riding much let alone off-roading... all I got for that thing was $5k from a buddy.

Used E-stuff is cheap. Really good used E-stuff isn't too bad either.



Is this real life or urban legend?

Asking because every drone I ever owned, once it loses connection, it doesn't lower itself slowly lol. Any drone I've had for the last 3 years registers a "home point" (the launch point) when they first take off. When it loses connection to the controller, it waits a programmed amount of time (I think I remember that you can set that in your settings), and then if no connection is resumed, it just returns back to the home point. Likewise if the battery is too low, and it can't reconnect to your control after waiting there, it will just return back to the launch point.

They do this because, you know... people fly over water, and plenty of other stuff and things far from where they launch. The idea is you always launch from a safe open area, so if you ever lose connection to your drone, it has LOTS of space to return home.

Typically if I'm flying across a lake at the in-law's cottage (I could get about 3 KM range over open water) I would launch the drone from the other side of the house while I sit on the dock, that way if anything goes wrong, the drone returns to the other side of the cottage, and doesn't accidentally miss the end of the dock where i'm sitting and end up submarining lol

There are videos of LE using similar technology. Are they fake? I don't know. There are enough from various sources that I think the technology works.

Return to home requires some form of location tracking. I doubt any use inertial navigation and it wouldn't be hard to overwhelm things like GPS signals so the drone didn't know where it was anymore. Once it loses track of its position, the drone doesn't have a lot of options and none of them are great.

There are some interesting legal questions that haven't yet been answered. Drone laws were written for pilots. If cops take over and it crashes and hurts someone, who is legally liable? Cops obviously don't want to be holding the chequebook but pilot would have a good argument in court that cops commandeered the drone and caused the crash and injuries.

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