SF News Meet the New Drones the SFPD Will Be Using (and Is Actually Already Using) SFPD now has six drones in their fleet after voters approved the department's use of drones this past March. Here's what those six drones look like, and how they will be deployed.
SF News Antioch Mayor Says Police Got Drone Footage of This Weekend’s Sideshows, Vows Arrests and Impoundings A rash of East Bay sideshows this weekend involved one in Oakland with a hit-and-run, but the mayor of Antioch claims he sicced drones on one of the sideshows, and he’ll bring the daredevil drivers to justice.
SF News March Ballot Measure Proposes Giving SF Cops Drones, More Surveillance Tools Mayor London Breed’s priorities are all over your March 5 primary ballot, including one measure that proposes to give San Francisco police expanded use of drones and surveillance cameras.
SF News Drone High Jinks — And Potential Deadly Crashes — Worry Golden Gate Bridge Officials With six drone crashes on the bridge in the last five years, a top official posits, “By the grace of God, it hasn’t hit a car, bicyclist or pedestrian.”
SF News Alleged Drone Killing of Hawk In Dolores Park Has Birder Community Ruffled We don’t know for sure that a drone killed a hawk in Dolores Park on Christmas Eve, but one earwitness account was enough to get avian advocates and Nextdoor gadflies furious at the possibility. Animal Care and Control has yet to confirm a cause of death for the bird.
SF News City Agencies About To Get OK To Start Flying Their Own Drones The rush to start flying drones through the skies of San Francisco has thus far consumed for-profit companies like Amazon, Google and Chipotle, all of which seek to to eventually test-fly various drone
Arts & Entertainment Nerd Alert: Drone Racing And Combat Facility Coming to Palace Of Fine Arts For all the droning on about how the ubiquitous little flying robots can pose a deadly threat to aircraft, knock out power stations, and enable jerkish behavior, it’s easy to forget that
SF News Drone Blamed For Sunday Night Power Outage In SF It's disturbingly easy to throw PG&E off their power-supply game, as errant raccoons, balloons, and big-rigs have illustrated. But now the energy company can add another baddie to their enemies list:
SF News Someone Almost Crashed A Drone Into A CHP Helicopter On Saturday A California Highway Patrol helicopter pilot had an unexpected encounter with a drone over the weekend, and was forced to take evasive maneuvers in order to avoid collision. It seems that a person
SF News Amazon Debuts New Delivery Drone Prototype, Still Has No Idea When They Will Be Deployed Remember when we all scoffed at Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' 2013 claim that his company was developing a drone delivery system? Well, according to a company announcement, their plan to unleash hoards of
SF News Video: Drone Footage Of NorCal Reservoirs Shows How Bad The Drought Is We've seen photos and videos plenty of times, but it'll never cease to amaze us how bad the drought in California is. The California Department of Water Resources released a video on Thursday
SF News Coit Tower Closed Due To A Drone Filming A Commercial Coit Tower tourists are out of luck again today from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. as Logan Media shoots a corporate commercial with a drone, closing the landmark and surrounding Pioneer
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Another Pretty Drone Video Of The Bay Area Bay Area By Air from Pre-Future LLC on Vimeo. In honor of the this fresh start to the year, a multi-copter drone enthusiast with a GoPro has given us another lovely video of
Arts & Entertainment Video: A Drone's Eye View Of The Castro If you ever wanted to float above the Castro, this video might be the next best thing. According to Hoodline, area man Matthew M. sent his camera-enabled quadcopter up above the Castro at
