...they think they'll be flying them within 4 years despite battery tech being a fair way off? Huh?
this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2024
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Gotta pretend for the shareholders
2028 conveniently is just far enough away for us to have forgotten all about those claims by then
The Elon strategy.
"FSD in two years..."
"Mars landing by 2024..."
That's how visionaire-ism works!
If a vote come to ban this in my city I'd go knock on doors and try get as much support for banning them as I can.
Sign my petition, damn it!
No thanks . Cars are already super noisy . So a glorified quadcopter ...
rich people with too much money pretending to have a problem to solve. most people arent using the helicopters this use case covers
this is just bored rich people building stuff they think is cool, most of which is a dead end
and in 2029 TikTok teens are gonna be stealing them with USB drives
Can I just have a government subsidised EV so I can stop polluting pls
Hydrogen might actually make sense for these, since you need extreme energy density. But I doubt they'll be very widespread because of airspace restrictions and faa approval. I don't see how they'd be that much more common than city helicopters are now.
Oh the humanity...
Fuck off.
Yeah maybe if the wars in the world subside.
If anything, wars are an amazing source of technological advancement.
This is not to say that I want war, but to acknowledge the fact that it absolutely fuel innovation
Paris will ban them before thier release lol