SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: SFPD Touts Drone Success In Catching Thieves The SFPD shared videos of arrests made with drone assistance; a bicyclist died in a solo crash in Oakland; and the Strava running app is giving away the location of Biden, Harris, and Trump via their security staffs.
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 Politics SF Supervisor Proposes Novel Method to Crack Down on Sideshows: Drones SF Supervisor Rafael Mandelman proposed a new idea Tuesday to potentially crack down on and deter sideshows in the city, without putting police or participants in unnecessary danger while they're occurring.
Arts & Entertainment Video: San Francisco Man Sends Pal a Roll of Toilet Paper Via Drone Tech savvy and drone-loving San Franciscans were bound to resort to this contact-less delivery method, and one friend decided to help another out when there was no TP to be found.
Arts & Entertainment Haunting Drone Footage Shows the Ghost Town Of San Francisco on Sunday One week in to a shelter-in-place order and a growing global pandemic, San Francisco was its beautiful self on Sunday — just nearly devoid of people. Check out this gorgeous but chilling drone footage shot all over town.
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 Day Around The Bay: Homeless Cleared From Civic Center BART Entrances Two restaurants in a Daly City strip mall, Upside Down Burger and House of Sisig, had a bit of a rat problem recently, and House of Sisig consequently got shut down by the
SF News Behold The Bizarre Towers That Amazon Has Designed To House Delivery Drones The future has arrived. Amazon has begun to design towers to house their delivery drones. We're all mere steps away from having groceries, drugs, and vegan Thai food delivered by drones. Seattle-based online
Arts & Entertainment Video: Drone Footage Of The Newly Renovated Alamo Square The fences have come down, the dogs have returned to their long-closed play space, and Alamo Square Park is open once again, for the first time in a year following a $5.3
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
SF News Intoxicated Mountain View Man Attacks 300-Pound Security Robot, Is Arrested It's an only-in-Silicon Valley story that has NBC Bay Area making "Rage Against the Machine" dad jokes: Knightscope, the maker of a line of rolling security robots, apparently trusts its own product enough
SF News It's Mating Season For Harbor Seals, But Drones Could Be Killing The Mood From February through June, hundreds of harbor seals sleep, mate, sleep, give birth, and then sleep some more on beaches like one at the center of the Monterey Bay national marine sanctuary, Hopkins
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink DoorDash Delivery Robots Now Crawling Bay Area Sidewalks Spotted in Redwood City- testing Doordash delivery vehicle pic.twitter.com/uF3mBpMT7O— Lou Hong (@louhong) March 10, 2017 They may not be the Star Wars-style droids we were looking for, but they say
SF News Amazon Files Patent For Parachute-Drop Delivery, Perfect For End Times via GIPHY Amazon's plans for widespread, mainstream drone delivery are — please forgive me — up in the air. Still, the company continues to tantalize news media with demonstrations — here's the Verge on their first
SF News Pacifica Drone Enthusiast Arrested For Interfering With Helicopter Rescue Pacifica police investigators tell CBS 5 that 55-year-old Gerald Destremps was arrested after allegedly piloting his personal drone near a helicopter, causing an interruption to a rescue attempt on Friday morning. Destremps's drone,
SF News Amazon Patents Floating Blimp Warehouse For Drone Deliveries Say you're tailgating at a 49ers game and, what do you know, you managed to forget the mustard. What to do? In today's stone-age reality, you're probably forced to borrow the condiment from
SF News Amazon Completes Drone Delivery Of Package In England In 13 Minutes First-ever #AmazonPrimeAir customer delivery is in the books. 13 min—click to delivery. Check out the video: https://t.co/Xl8HiQMA1S pic.twitter.com/5HGsmHvPlE— Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) December 14, 2016 From a
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Drone Film Festival At The Roxie For the second year in a row, the Flying Robot international Film Festival will alight in San Francisco, chock full of shorts shot from up above. "The world's premier open competitive film festival
SF News Dream Of Drone-Delivered Lattes Comes Crashing Down As Alphabet's Project Wing Ends Starbucks Partnership Did you know that Alphabet's drone division, Project Wing, had teamed up with Starbucks with the goal of delivering the chain's products to customers by drone? Well, it seems the nascent partnership just
SF News Fly Above The Mission With This 3D Drone-Made Map Have you ever dreamt you're a bird, flying over a familiar city now foreign with new perspective? Operators of first-person-view drones often talk of experiencing a similar feeling — being "out of body" as
SF News Naked, Shotgun-Wielding 'Dirty Jobs' Star Mike Rowe Chases Off Drone Perhaps in an effort to catch the reality-TV star mid-dirty job, an unknown drone operator stands accused of piloting the device outside the bedroom window of San Francisco resident Mike Rowe and taking
SF News Autonomous Delivery Bot Hits San Francisco Sidewalks Starship just completed its first official and completely autonomous delivery to a wonderful lady in Richmond district of San Francisco A photo posted by Starship Technologies (@starshiprobots) on Sep 20, 2016 at 2:
