crashing an uncrashable drone!
Hey, what's going on, gu-ah the sun's in my eyes but I'm wearing sunglasses so I can hide
it.
I cough up a lung, I cough up a lung every video we shoot.
Hey, what's going on, guys?
Keaton here so, I got the brand new DJI Phantom 4 and what's really sweet about this drone
versus some of the others out there is this one claims it can avoid all obstacles at least
when you're flying it from the front so we're going to put that to the test and I might
even fly it in to myself so let's check it out.
Got the Phantom 4 on tells us we're in a restricted area.
No no no.
Time to fly.
So my previous experiences with drones, it-they haven't been really good.
I've crashed two drones, wrecked two drones.
One drone's in Lake Michigan and the other one, we're not gonna talk about the other
one.
Just rest in peace.
So basically, the big thing on the Phantom 4 this year is this Flight Avoidance feature.
There are two cameras on the front that are supposed to detect any object in front of
you so you shouldn't wreck your drone like I've done in the past years and we're gonna
put that to the test.
For our first test we're going to try to fly it into a tree.
We're in the Regular Mode so obstacle avoidance is on.
It's not on in Sport Mode which obviously makes sense 'cause Sports Mode is for the
crazier things so let's fly this into the tree, see if we can do it.
I'm going full force here.
And I don't know if you can hear that but it's not letting me fly it into the tree.
I can back up.
It just pulls back and you can hear it's saying, "No, no, no, I'm not flying into this tree."
Now we're going to make it a little tougher to decipher.
We're going to fly it into the branches.
Nope, not letting me fly into the branches.
How 'bout now?
Nope, I'm trying to sway it.
Yeah, it's not letting me fly it into the branches at all.
The Phantom 4 avoided a single tree pretty well.
We're going to try to crash it into this tripod right here and see if it can detect such a
small object.
Oh!
We just crashed the-we just crashed the drone.
We-what is it doing?
We just took out the drone.
So the DJI Phantom 4 crashed.
It was right at the tripod.
For the most part did a good job.
Just when we were circling back it hit it.
So when we just crashed it was in Regular Mode.
GPS right there, it's giving me a warning saying 'Motor Obstructed'.
I hope we can still fly this thing.
It really sucks that we have to do this but the tripod is an obstacle, did not avoid it.
Alright, alright, Tiger, round two, round two.
Now Matt's gonna try to fly the Phantom 4 into my body.
Let's hope it avoids this obstacle.
Oh my God.
Stop.
So the Phantom 4's avoided most obstacles that we threw at it.
It avoided the tree, it avoided me, thank God, didn't necessarily avoid the tripod,
but one thing that I haven't seen is can it avoid moving obstacles?
This is what you're supposed to use to protect your drone, we're doing the opposite.
Alright, final test.
Holy crap.
Wow, she's on the ground.
On the first attempt I hit the drone, it spun it off but it kept flying.
♫ I didn't mean to hurt you ♫ I'm sorry that- ♫ So in the end the Phantom 4, it
avoids most obstacles.
It's the best drone I've ever seen.
Honestly, I won't be losing more drones to lakes anymore but the thing is it can't really
find thin objects like the tripod right there or just objects that are a little bit harder
to see and it can definitely not stop moving objects.
Just look at our drone, this thing's probably irreparable.
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