{"id":4715,"date":"2016-03-15T14:34:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T04:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=4715"},"modified":"2016-03-15T14:35:24","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T04:35:24","slug":"teenager-wins-250000-in-biggest-drone-race-yet-the-verge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/teenager-wins-250000-in-biggest-drone-race-yet-the-verge\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager wins US$250k flying drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Final Race of the biggest drone race, the World Drone Prix. #WDP16\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0wrx86oeBn4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A British teenager has\u00a0won $250,000 after placing first in the inaugural\u00a0World Drone Prix in Dubai. 15-year-old Luke Bannister piloted his drone to victory along an outdoor track, using a camera mounted on its front to steer the craft through a series of illuminated hoops from a first-person viewpoint, and beating out competition from 150 other teams in the process.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>US$250k?!! It&#8217;s official, drone racing is a thing.<\/p>\n<p>The footage, to me, seems a little dull. Combine that\u00a0with the constant buzzing\u00a0that sounds even worse than last year&#8217;s F1 cars and I didn&#8217;t last more than a couple of laps into the footage.<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;d prefer to see them all racing at once instead of timed laps. Thoughts?<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"source-link\"><span class=\"source-link\"><span class=\"source-link\">Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/3\/13\/11217974\/world-drone-prix-dubai-winner-250000\">Teenager wins $250,000 in biggest drone race yet | The Verge<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A British teenager has\u00a0won $250,000 after placing first in the inaugural\u00a0World Drone Prix in Dubai. 15-year-old Luke Bannister&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}