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The company also plans to “retire said Sean McNally, vice president of the crowdfunding site Kickstarter, both
significant amounts of coal-fueled gen- public affairs for American Trucking designed to allow people to shoot drone
eration in the next year” and closing 25 Associations. “The restrictions on the selfies, or dronies (that is, a selfie shot
percent of its coal-fueled plants over the restart raise crash risk and until those via drone).
coming several years. risks and other unintended impacts are The Hexo Plus, which comes with
studied, they should be suspended.” the tagline, “Your Autonomous Aerial
driver in Tracy morgan The crash demolished a limou- Camera,” is compatible with a GoPro
accidenT was wiTHin Hos sine van carrying actor and comedian camera and is billed as an “intelli-
LimiTs Morgan. The van spun and flipped over, gent drone that follows and films you
The Walmart Stores Inc. driver killing one of the passengers, comedian autonomously.” A competitor, called the
whose truck crashed into a limousine James McNair, 62. Morgan, 45, and AirDog, treats a drone like a dog on a
carrying actor Tracy Morgan was in the two others were critically injured. Six leash, tracking and following you wher-
14th hour of a work shift that began the other vehicles carrying 16 people were ever you go and snapping video and pic-
day before, which is within allowable involved in the subsequent impacts, tures of you as you do action sports.
limits, according to a preliminary report although none of them were hospital- Based on sales, consumers seem
from the National Transportation ized. eager to buy these kinds of products.
Safety Board (NTSB). Hexo Plus hoped to raise $50,000 on
“The NTSB’s preliminary report smiLe for THe drone Kickstarter. In three days, it passed
cites – using electronic log data – that Selfies just got super high-tech. $700,000, or 1,300 percent more than
the driver in this incident was operat- Drones, the miniature heli- its goal. AirDog quickly flew
ing within the current hours-of-service copter like devices the mili- past its $200,000 target, too.
limits, a fact ignored by groups seek- tary has used for years, are No, drones don’t exactly
ing to erroneously tie this crash to the finding their way into the have a clean safety record. In
suspension of the unjustified restric- consumer world. April, a runner at the West
tions on the use of the 34-hour restart,” Two drones made their debuts on Australian triathlon was hit on the
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