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Hey, I'm basing this on the hype they are rousing on their website. From the second paragraph of their "mission" page: > We are bringing personalized, clean a
by loup-vaillant 10y ago
Hey, I'm basing this on the hype they are rousing on their website. From the second paragraph of their "mission" page:
> We are bringing personalized, clean and affordable air travel to everyone.
Either they're trying to con someone, or they intend to drastically lowers the bars to entry: it must be affordable, legal, and mustn't require much skill. I'm also seeing a beautiful rendering of those things flying over a dense city lower than some rooftops, and a landing pad with people standing on them, just after one craft took off.
They're gonna need one hell of a lobbying force to pull that off. Or a couple decades proving this stuff is mighty safe.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> Either they're trying to con someone, or they intend to drastically lowers the bars to entry: it must be affordable, legal, and mustn't require much skill. They explicitly say that the "for everyone" part isn't everyone can fly (or afford to own) one, just that you will be able to hail them via a smartphone app and they'll come to you where you need them, because building suitable landing sites will be relatively inexpensive and attractive to property owners.
- loup-vaillant 10y agoStill, there's the problem of volume. "Everyone" has to mean "more than 1% of the traffic" to be at all meaningful. Air traffic controllers are gonna have to become bloody efficient to absorb that.