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A decade ago 8-15 minutes on an electric aircraft like this would be impossible. A decade from now we’ll be to an hour, which I’m sure would cover 99% of cases

A decade ago 8-15 minutes on an electric aircraft like this would be impossible. A decade from now we’ll be to an hour, which I’m sure would cover 99% of cases unless you really want to be droning state to state haha

dragonwriter 3y ago
> A decade ago 8-15 minutes on an electric aircraft like this would be impossible. A decade from now we’ll be to an hour, which I’m sure would cover 99% of cases unless you really want to be droning state to state haha Be careful about projecting from hype directed at investors but not actually publicly available. I mean, if we projected from Moller skycar PR from the 1990s on (when it was heavily marketed to investors and first made available for preorders) the sky would be filled with personal VTOLs today.
- Animats 3y ago
  Moller goes back much further than the 1990s. Here's the product brochure from 1974.[1] Full-scale production in 1976! Called "Discojet Corporation" back then. [1] http://downside.com/scams/moller/ http://downside.com/scams/moller/
  - dragonwriter 3y ago
    Yes, I referred specifically to the Skycar, which was the last major effort, but yeah, Moller was playing that game for a long time.
  - qingcharles 3y ago
    I'm just wondering how the hell the couple are going to exit the Discojet vehicle? Just thinking about the sheer amount of energy required to lift two adults, especially when that Discojet was rotary-engine powered. I came unstuck as a small child in the early 80s trying to make a drone after watching Runaway (1984). I quickly realized I could never generate enough thrust with the parts I had to lift the vehicle AND its power source and had to settle for a very disappointing tethered craft.
- willio58 3y ago
  I have no interest in this device or what they promise, I'm just projecting based on the technological advancements I've experienced in my (relatively) short life.

dragonwriter 3y ago

> A decade ago 8-15 minutes on an electric aircraft like this would be impossible. A decade from now we’ll be to an hour, which I’m sure would cover 99% of cases unless you really want to be droning state to state haha Be careful about projecting from hype directed at investors but not actually publicly available. I mean, if we projected from Moller skycar PR from the 1990s on (when it was heavily marketed to investors and first made available for preorders) the sky would be filled with personal VTOLs today.

Animats 3y ago
Moller goes back much further than the 1990s. Here's the product brochure from 1974.[1] Full-scale production in 1976! Called "Discojet Corporation" back then. [1] http://downside.com/scams/moller/ http://downside.com/scams/moller/
- dragonwriter 3y ago
  Yes, I referred specifically to the Skycar, which was the last major effort, but yeah, Moller was playing that game for a long time.
- qingcharles 3y ago
  I'm just wondering how the hell the couple are going to exit the Discojet vehicle? Just thinking about the sheer amount of energy required to lift two adults, especially when that Discojet was rotary-engine powered. I came unstuck as a small child in the early 80s trying to make a drone after watching Runaway (1984). I quickly realized I could never generate enough thrust with the parts I had to lift the vehicle AND its power source and had to settle for a very disappointing tethered craft.
willio58 3y ago
I have no interest in this device or what they promise, I'm just projecting based on the technological advancements I've experienced in my (relatively) short life.