 There's no there's nobody helping you like you know with every camera drone that I test out for the verge if you let go of the sticks it just sits there with this one if you let go the sticks it's gonna fall basically out of the sky you always have to be working the throttle and like I don't know what's it what's what's the difference it's like taking the training wheels off. Hey everybody it's Ben Popper here for CES 2017. I'm not actually at CES I'm in the desert near Boulder City just outside the restricted airspace for Las Vegas. That's because we're here for the CES of drones a place where everybody can fly these aircraft without having to worry about cutting somebody's nose off and the exciting thing today is we get to try out the Draco. In the past when you wanted to have a racing drone you had to build it yourself you didn't know how to program and how to solder this is the first racing drone you could just buy off the shelf and go 100 miles an hour. What are the pieces that make this a racing drone and you know differentiate it from like the DJI Phantom that everybody knows? It's basically trying to compare like a Ferrari to just like a general minivan or something like that like it's in terms of like the general idea is the same but everything is just more powerful. Right. Obviously you got four motors four props on this required to fly you've also got a camera up the front here so this is the HD version of the Draco so this actually streams 720p with almost zero latency so this system is very fast and that's required for racing because you have to be able to dodge gates, dodge whatever you're flying around. So you know I've flown a lot of drones doing reviews but these are you know camera quads for consumers I feel like I would have no idea how to handle something that goes 100 miles an hour I mean is it safe to like put this on the shelf at Best Buy where anybody can grab it? Yeah I would say the nice thing about them is that you can tone them down so that if you're just learning you can go beginner settings and that kind of lowers it down so you won't be able to go 100 miles per hour maybe you can go like 30 around the backyard if you break something or something is wrong everything is modular on this device in some shape or form if you break a motor arm pop that out all the electronics internally well protected so but if you still managed to break it replaceable. I mean I've flown in many many drones but not a drone that goes 100 miles an hour and is full manual and it's different when you have like the FPV on because like you're you don't have that situational awareness so many ways this could go wrong for me or for the people around me. Okay so they brought me out here where I'm far away and maybe can't hurt anybody and I'm gonna do my best to fly this race drone not crash or kill myself should be fun. All right here we go you ready? Oh yeah Oh too far okay how's that better am I coming down? You just hit the ground. Oh shit why? Let's go see what's left of this drone. They were gonna break it down for parts anyway I was just helping disassemble it. Oh man sorry about that little guy he's still in one piece. Well I've flown a lot of drones I thought I knew what I was doing but as soon as I put those FPV goggles on it was a whole different ballgame. Still got a lot to learn. CES claims another victim. Fly safe kids.
 There's no there's nobody helping you like you know with every camera drone
 that I test out for the verge if you let go of the sticks it just sits there with
 this one if you let go the sticks it's gonna fall basically out of the sky you
 always have to be working the throttle and like I don't know what's it what's
 what's the difference it's like taking the training wheels off.
 Hey everybody it's Ben Popper here for CES 2017. I'm not actually at CES I'm in
 the desert near Boulder City just outside the restricted airspace for Las
 Vegas. That's because we're here for the CES of drones a place where everybody
 can fly these aircraft without having to worry about cutting somebody's nose off
 and the exciting thing today is we get to try out the Draco. In the past when
 you wanted to have a racing drone you had to build it yourself you didn't know
 how to program and how to solder this is the first racing drone you could just
 buy off the shelf and go 100 miles an hour. What are the pieces that make this
 a racing drone and you know differentiate it from like the DJI Phantom that
 everybody knows? It's basically trying to compare like a Ferrari to just like a
 general minivan or something like that like it's in terms of like the general
 idea is the same but everything is just more powerful. Right. Obviously you got
 four motors four props on this required to fly you've also got a camera up the
 front here so this is the HD version of the Draco so this actually streams 720p
 with almost zero latency so this system is very fast and that's required for
 racing because you have to be able to dodge gates, dodge whatever you're flying
 around. So you know I've flown a lot of drones doing reviews but these are you
 know camera quads for consumers I feel like I would have no idea how to handle
 something that goes 100 miles an hour I mean is it safe to like put this on the
 shelf at Best Buy where anybody can grab it? Yeah I would say the nice thing
 about them is that you can tone them down so that if you're just learning you
 can go beginner settings and that kind of lowers it down so you won't be able to
 go 100 miles per hour maybe you can go like 30 around the backyard if you break
 something or something is wrong everything is modular on this device in
 some shape or form if you break a motor arm pop that out all the electronics
 internally well protected so but if you still managed to break it replaceable.
 I mean I've flown in many many drones but not a drone that goes 100 miles an
 hour and is full manual and it's different when you have like the FPV on
 because like you're you don't have that situational awareness so many ways this
 could go wrong for me or for the people around me.
 Okay so they brought me out here where I'm far away and maybe can't hurt
 anybody and I'm gonna do my best to fly this race drone not crash or kill
 myself should be fun.
 All right here we go you ready? Oh yeah
 Oh too far okay how's that better am I coming down?
 You just hit the ground. Oh shit why?
 Let's go see what's left of this drone. They were gonna break it down for parts
 anyway I was just helping disassemble it. Oh man sorry about that little guy
 he's still in one piece. Well I've flown a lot of drones I thought I knew what I
 was doing but as soon as I put those FPV goggles on it was a whole different
 ballgame. Still got a lot to learn. CES claims another victim. Fly safe kids.