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Feels like billionaires solving billionaires problems - this doesn’t scale.
by taurath 9y ago
Feels like billionaires solving billionaires problems - this doesn’t scale.
- ipsum2 9y agoHow can you say that when you don't even know the price of the service?
- falcolas 9y agoWell, if you base the costs off of a traditional aircraft (around which this is based), they'll be in the $100+ an hour range, minimum. The cost to buy will be in the $2-300,000 range, minimum. They will require yearly maintenance, not counting any maintenance required on the electric props and batteries. This is based off a production aircraft, the Cirrus. I'm also not immediately seeing how this would not require a pilots license - more likely a helicopter license, though this is easily debatable. So perhaps not billionaires, but millionaires to be sure.
- maged 9y agoIt already costs me 100+ an hour to transport 4 people from San Jose to San Francisco. This would be cheaper and faster.
- falcolas 9y agoVia what method? Iirc, there are many economical methods of transportation between those two cities... Also, that $100 per hour is pure cost with no markups to provide for revenue or growth. I could easily be wrong, but the aircraft they were displaying looked like a 2 seater, not 4.
- VVyattPrentice 9y agoThrow in a couple jet ski style tow ropes and you're golden.
- maged 9y agoUber X, or 4 Caltrain tickets gets us close to 100.
- falcolas 9y agoWRT Caltrain, I remember using it for commuting, and certainly don't remember paying $50 a day to do so. But perhaps the times have changed and the prices with them. Still, $25 per ticket one way seems ridiculously high.
- Fricken 9y agoIt's actually kind of weird to default to whether or not it scales. It doesn't shoot laser beams either, but that doesn't doom it. Mostly I'm concerned about whether it can get my snowboard and I to the top of a back country mountain for 1/3rd the price of hiring a helicopter pilot and his machine.