Earlier quoted context omitted.
If there were only few of those around and you could afford one and it had good range imagine how it would cut your commute. Fly to your cabin in the woods in no time (rather than sit in traffic for hours) to chill for a bit? Worth the money.
Motorcycles can already do that due to the wonders of lane splitting. Wouldn’t you need a pilot’s license for this? If it only flies so low that you don’t, isn’t it then suuuuper dangerous? I say the dangerous part as a former Boosted Board afficionado and current motorcycle rider
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#22they could use a bit of tesla's marketing and website pizzazz
No kidding. The yt video's production values are... unimpressive. https://youtu.be/URgznwTph6M
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#23I don't mean to be negative but here's a few questions:
What happens when you hit turbulence?
What happens if you get caught in a rainstorm?
What happens if you fly into a flock of birds?
What happens when you fly into lightning on a clear day?
None of those have to be fatal in an airplane, but potentially could be on this machine.
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#26Planes can glide after a loss of power, helos autorotate, do these just fall out of the sky on a nice ballistic arc?
Maybe one of those whole plane parachutes?
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#27I wish there was a "moonshot" for something like The Kidney Project ( https://pharm.ucsf.edu/kidney ) A project to produce an artificial kidney. It was kept alive by small donations by kidney patients over the years. Now maybe on better footing and closer to human testing. But still nothing funded like these pie in the sky moonshot project that people will care nothing about in a few years.
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#28Edit: turbine intakes, FTA.
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#30I wish there was a "moonshot" for something like The Kidney Project ( https://pharm.ucsf.edu/kidney ) A project to produce an artificial kidney. It was kept alive by small donations by kidney patients over the years. Now maybe on better footing and closer to human testing. But still nothing funded like these pie in the sky moonshot project that people will care nothing about in a few years.
If you want to start it and apply to YC, we'd be very interested.