Drones Being Used To Help Clean Up After Car Crashes

There are tens of thousands of car crashes that occur every year on roads around the US and when they do, it can often take quite a bit of time for an investigation team to accurately assess the area prior to any effort to clean it up.

When the police need to investigate the area following an accident, they'll need to gather (or get a third party service to gather) the information about the accident (things like measurements, pictures of damage etc), before it can be cleaned and everything can get back to normal.

This information is necessary to obtain, for an accurate reconstruction of the accident to take place, so that authorities can better understand the crash scene and what had occurred. And thanks to new technology, the process of gathering that information and restoring things back to normal has gotten a lot easier.

Drones are now being used to help speed up the process...

In North Carolina, authorities there are already using drones to help them with crash cleanup.

Where it normally takes people quite a bit of time to take photos of the entire area and gather all of the measurements etc, the drone can do it a lot quicker. It's getting the job done in about half the time that it would normally take.

The drones are able to help them to map out the area, gather all of the necessary measurements, and get everyone back on the road and traffic back to normal a lot faster than they've traditionally been able to. In some instances where it can take several hours to gather the information connected to a crash site, the drone might be able to do it within minutes.

And drones aren't only being used to help with crash site cleanup,.....

they've also been used by firefighters to help with fighting and assessing fires, farmers are using them to assess their crops, and hospitals are using them to deliver medical supplies. Even power companies have turned to using them to remove garbage from their power lines. They've now successfully made their way into a number of different industries, who knows where we might see them pop up next.

The drone market is expected to surpass $127 billion by 2021 and there are hundreds of thousands of drones being sold every year.

In the US alone, drones sales have more than doubled since last year. And it's expected that the drone market globally will surpass the $6 billion dollar mark this year.

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Sources:
http://www.wral.com/how-nc-uses-drones-to-help-clean-up-crashes-quicker/16958990/
http://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/drones/a25282/flame-throwing-drones/
https://medium.com/the-science-of-drone-mapping/4-reasons-drones-will-revolutionize-accident-scene-response-a1db234eeccf
http://bit.ly/2sKwuEg
http://www.businessinsider.com/drones-report-market-forecast-2015-3
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-09/world-drone-market-seen-nearing-127-billion-in-2020-pwc-says
https://www.engadget.com/2016/11/28/5-trends-in-the-drone-industry-2016/
https://www.recode.net/2017/4/14/14690576/drone-market-share-growth-charts-dji-forecast

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