One accident and this company will be history. It isn't technology and business that holds aviation back, it's bureaucracy, law, regulations and existing system

One accident and this company will be history. It isn't technology and business that holds aviation back, it's bureaucracy, law, regulations and existing systems. There are way too many actors that have big stakes in the status quo, on all fronts: existing infrastructure and regulations, money to be made on lawsuits and people's fear of flight, the huge personal freedom that comes with flight (leaving the country becomes pretty trivial if there are small planes everywhere), the tens of thousands of people employed in traditional aviation, ensuring the continued safe operation of the current system etc, etc, etc. The technological problems come on top of this, so no "investor in his right mind" would bet the required amount of money to make an attempt. You would have to be crazy. Someday we will look back at this period as the dark age of flight. I'm annoyed out of my mind; there are hundreds of cool things to work with in this area.