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This guy is a phenomenon. Could become this century's most important person, if he can pull everything off that he plans to. An interesting takeaway: He wants
by imartin2k 10y ago
This guy is a phenomenon. Could become this century's most important person, if he can pull everything off that he plans to.
An interesting takeaway: He wants to dig tunnels because he doesn't believe in flying "cars" which would make feel people uncomfortable. Interesting antithesis to what his peers in the tech world are doing.
- noir_lord 10y agoFlying cars beyond the cool factor make me very uncomfortable, aside from his joke about a hubcap becoming a guillotine, how do you solve the problem of maintenance? If you require a regime like light aircraft they'd be ferociously expensive, current land cars are already showing remote capabilities that are worrying, shutting down a car remotely is bad enough, shutting down a flying car is catastrophic and then who controls them, if they are autonomous they become programmable aerial weapons and if you human operated they become both weapons and machines for screwups (and drunk drivers). I just don't see a future for them outside of billionaires play things.
- njarboe 10y agoI heard my first drone the other day that I was not expecting. Just a loudish buzzing sound in the sky while walking in a park. Looked up and it was pretty high and not very large. I was hoping flying personal transport could solve some serious problems like traffic jams, but now I'm fearful. Like Elon mentioned, noise will be a problem (barring some new levitation system).