No Longer a Dream: Silicon Valley Takes on the Flying Car
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No Longer a Dream: Silicon Valley Takes on the Flying Car
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#2No mention of Lilium, unfortunately, though they aren't in SV. https://lilium.com/
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#4No mention of Lilium, unfortunately, though they aren't in SV. https://lilium.com/
They came up on HN a few days ago. If i remember right, the TL;DR was "have you solved the battery weight problem? no? why are you wasting your time?"
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#5Another nonsense marketing piece. The image in the article is not even remotely close to a flying car. It is a ducted fan ground effect craft, no different than what NASA and USAF have worked on since the 1950's. Sure you could sort out the stability and flight automation problems with modern software. But the underlying problem to solve is one of energy storage, not aerospace engineering. This company will run into the exact same wall that every other effort to do this has. Until battery power density is increased 10x, electric flying cars will never be a thing.
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#6what's more fun is to read the nyt comments section - looks like a decided lack of enthusiasm + a serious hatred of the rich and the silicon valley mindset... given the usual commenters lean heavily liberal, it is somewhat surprising to see so much vitriol aimed at this puff piece and its subject
Re: No Longer a Dream: Silicon Valley Takes on the Flying Car
#7Another nonsense marketing piece. The image in the article is not even remotely close to a flying car. It is a ducted fan ground effect craft, no different than what NASA and USAF have worked on since the 1950's. Sure you could sort out the stability and flight automation problems with modern software. But the underlying problem to solve is one of energy storage, not aerospace engineering. This company will run into…
Not to mention noise. Today's cars are gratifyingly quiet. Ground effect craft are emphatically not
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#8No mention of Ehang 184: http://www.ehang.com/ehang184
I don't know much about the company, but they seem to have got something airborne in the last couple of years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iyCgy1juHc
Re: No Longer a Dream: Silicon Valley Takes on the Flying Car
#9what's more fun is to read the nyt comments section - looks like a decided lack of enthusiasm + a serious hatred of the rich and the silicon valley mindset... given the usual commenters lean heavily liberal, it is somewhat surprising to see so much vitriol aimed at this puff piece and its subject
Thanks for pointing it out. I read them all after encountering your comment. Best entertainment of the day
Re: No Longer a Dream: Silicon Valley Takes on the Flying Car
#10Another nonsense marketing piece. The image in the article is not even remotely close to a flying car. It is a ducted fan ground effect craft, no different than what NASA and USAF have worked on since the 1950's. Sure you could sort out the stability and flight automation problems with modern software. But the underlying problem to solve is one of energy storage, not aerospace engineering. This company will run into…
Why do you say ducted fan?