Those Chinese Firefighting Drones Would Only be Effective in Correcting an Architectural Flaw

On tech blogs, I've seen a fair bit of excitement about these firefighting drones being pioneered in China: Now let's think about this for a second. The test shown above is of the drones extinguishing flammable material suspended outside of the building on a scaffold. But think of how a real fire in an apartment building starts: An overloaded power strip or faulty appliance sparks, spreading to the carpet, the furniture, the drapes. We now have enough plastic and...