Pretty exciting. I consider this a real proof of concept for shuttlepods AKA flying cars. I'm sure there's a lot of work left to do this shows how much is alrea

Pretty exciting. I consider this a real proof of concept for shuttlepods AKA flying cars. I'm sure there's a lot of work left to do this shows how much is already possible with relatively little effort by a relatively small company. Seems like there's a few advances that should enable it to finally happen: Automated: so there's no pilot to make mistakes and drive up costs. Automated flying is easier than navigating streets, so this is probably already doable at scale even though self-driving cars are taking longer than hoped. Electric: so the at-scale/long-term cost per flight can be nearly zero. Seems possible something like this could be manufactured for $100k at scale and fly (with maintenance) for multiple years. Multi-rotor w/efficient DC motors, multi-battery pack w/advanced batteries, and multi-computer w/advanced processors: so there's no single point of failure and lots of opportunity to recover from failure, and to enable easy VTOL without runways. The Wright brothers would love it. Their initial vision was to not need specially built runways or airports. It turns out that was "too early" of an idea to be practical but we're getting close. An "infinite highway of the air" (Wilbur Wright) is an exciting goal.