I can kind of understand this

because it's Vermont, and Vermont winters are not conducive to walking your kid to the bus stop. But it is a little weird, and maybe a little creepy and cool at the same time.

Father builds automated drone to watch son walk to the bus stop

Covered in extensive detail on the IEEE Spectrum magazine site, a father names [sic] Paul Wallich in Vermont decided to build a camera-equipped quadcopter to follow his son from home to the school bus stop. He specifically wanted to build the security device for extremely cold mornings in December and January in order to avoid the quarter-mile walk to and from the bus stop. To get started, he first purchased a basic quadcopter kit and was quickly able to get up in the air due to the simple construction. He also designed a few sets of replacement legs out of foam board to cushion landings.

But it does rather say something about our society that we will go to such lengths to avoid a quarter-mile hike in the snow.