[cleverwebble]

The story is that these young engineers built a 500$ drone that consumes this kind of data to do mapping. In 24 hours for a hackathon no less.

If the US government didn't already have this kind of tech, they would spend millions just for the same prototype they built. And probably tens or hundreds of millions for a final product.

I think that's a story

[kortilla]

It’s only a story if it wasn’t known to cost around this range in the first place.

People can do weekend hackathon image recognition projects that aren’t story worthy but would have been billion dollar companies 15 years ago

[thorncorona]

Considering they didn't actually deploy (the route was simulated), I would be skeptical of this.