Father builds automated drone to watch son walk to the bus stop

In case anyone is interested in tracking their kids, the drone software is open source: http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/

I'm not sure how that would guard his son from threats. Wouldn't it be more useful (and simpler) to just walk with him to the bus stop?

i think it's obvious he'd rather spend countless hours at the workbench than do that :D

Didn't you read the article? Apparently it was too cold to go outside...

but apparently not too cold for his son to make the walk... o_0

Is anybody else creeped out by the idea of training our children to be comfortable being monitored by drones?

Gives new meaning to the term helicopter parenting.

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