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Larry Page's Flying Car Company Kitty Hawk Is Shutting Down
- gvb 4y agohttps://archive.ph/5ilZR https://archive.ph/5ilZR On their linkedin page "We have made the decision to wind down Kittyhawk. We're still working on the details of what's next." Ref: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kittyhawkaero/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/kittyhawkaero/
- NonNefarious 4y agoIllegible because of paywall. Please remove.
- NonNefarious 4y agoSee FunnyBadger's comment above. Whoever mods statements like this down exemplifies the final sentiment.
- Apocryphon 4y agoToo much competition from Sergey's airship. https://spectrum.ieee.org/sergey-brins-revolutionary-20-airship https://spectrum.ieee.org/sergey-brins-revolutionary-20-airs... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31592448 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31592448
- FunnyBadger 4y agoThere's a reason why it didn't work before during the 1960s. And why dirigibles died in the 1930s. Nothing in technology or the laws of physics have changed enough to alter its viability! MOST people, in my experience, who push, fund or jump onto the bandwagen for such things have ZERO STEM knowledge, zero economics/finance knowledge and zero market knowledge. A simple back-of-the-envelope calculation made before they "jumped" with both feet would have nipped the stupid in the bud and saved a lot of wasted money. But it's human nature to be willfully stupid.