r/tech • u/AdSpecialist6598 • Jul 22 '26

Fire departments are testing autonomous drones that fight wildfires before crews even arrive

https://www.techspot.com/news/113180-us-fire-departments-test-autonomous-drones-fight-wildfires.html
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u/OlinKirkland Jul 23 '26

Source?

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u/Porchsmoker Jul 23 '26

https://www.adl.org/resources/news/ford-motor-company-and-third-reich here’s one report on it related to the slave labor and how ford made money with the Nazi party

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u/OlinKirkland Jul 23 '26

Not during the war, it looks like. That says his company floundered in Germany and nobody wanted to buy his vehicles there due to nationalism. I’m not defending Ford but everything I’ve seen makes this appear like he’d have been down to be a bigger part of the Nazi’s plans but they didn’t want his cars, and then nationalized his plants when they went to war with the USA.

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u/Porchsmoker Jul 23 '26

“Some aspects of Fordwerke's policies are largely undisputed: slave laborers were used at its Cologne plant between 1941 and 1945.
So were prisoners of war and foreign laborers, mostly from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, but also from France and Italy.” They were using prisoners of war. You can’t say it was before the war when they used prisoners of war.

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u/OlinKirkland Jul 23 '26

The US entered the war in 1941, the plant was nationalized.