Drone crash leads Swiss Post and Matternet to suspend autonomous deliveries

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>The second failure in May, however, led to the drone attempting to deploy its parachute again, only to sever the line somehow and plummet to earth, crashing into the ground some 150 feet from a bunch of kindergartners.

why not put airbags on the drones? Getting hit by a slower falling bunch of inflated balloons with 5kg suspended in the middle of it vs. getting hit by those 5kg falling like a brick.

I hope they take a deeper look at the problem and the root cause before they try and fix the symptom by putting airbags on the drones.

It sounds like a failure of the engineering process. When I worked in process engineering we would do an analysis of the whole system and ways that it could create a dangerous situation. For example, what combination of valves opening and closing could trap pressurised fluid.

I would like to see their analysis on what happens when things go wrong, such as a failed parachute.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failure_mode_and_effects_analy...

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