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Can driverless taxi and quadcopter technology have a risky love child already and let us hurtle towards a future where roads are rare, landing pads are ubiquito
by brownbat 9y ago
Can driverless taxi and quadcopter technology have a risky love child already and let us hurtle towards a future where roads are rare, landing pads are ubiquitous, and the swarm of rush hour commuters blots out the sun?
C'mon Elon, get on it!
- Eridrus 9y agoHas anyone done a serious analysis of the scalability of air taxis? I assume it would be better than with roads, but air capacity is not infinite, and you can only land a small amount of taxis on top of a building at a time. Many buildings probably can't even support a single landing spot.
- gaius 9y agoHas anyone done a serious analysis of the scalability of air taxis You mean... helicopters? Because they already exist and have limited use cases.
- Eridrus 9y agoNo, I mean the self-flying electric vertical takeoff drones people are building that I'm pretty sure the GP was talking about, eg http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4444874/Uber-looks-soar-flying-taxis-2020.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4444874/Uber-... https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/1/16961688/airbus-vahana-evtol-first-test-flight https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/1/16961688/airbus-vahana-evt... http://www.ibtimes.com/google-founder-larry-page-funding-flying-car-companies-zeeaero-kitty-hawk-2380033 http://www.ibtimes.com/google-founder-larry-page-funding-fly... Etc I don't know how seriously to take all these projects, but they are clearly quite different to helicopters.
- plasticchris 9y agoI thought much the same but quadcopters are too slow for an effective solution.