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YC's latest moonshot bet is a startup building a $380K “flying motorcycle”

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Re: YC's latest moonshot bet is a startup building a $380K “flying motorcycle”

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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

Id guess it would be less dangerous than driving than say, a turbo busa, given you have less things to crash into!

Re: YC's latest moonshot bet is a startup building a $380K “flying motorcycle”

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they 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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXYmFqEkCGQ

Re: YC's latest moonshot bet is a startup building a $380K “flying motorcycle”

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They promised my generation flying cars growing up. They never, not a single time talked about flying motorcycles.

I 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.

Re: YC's latest moonshot bet is a startup building a $380K “flying motorcycle”

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I 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.

Re: YC's latest moonshot bet is a startup building a $380K “flying motorcycle”

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post #24

I 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.

Re: YC's latest moonshot bet is a startup building a $380K “flying motorcycle”

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It looks like the the rider/pilot is expected to ride hunched over the ducted fan (?) intakes. I suppose it offers a lower center of gravity and is safer than the open rotors of the "flying motorbikes" the Dubai police were testing to much marketing fanfare, but... it still looks wrong from a human factors standpoint.

Edit: turbine intakes, FTA.

Re: YC's latest moonshot bet is a startup building a $380K “flying motorcycle”

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post #24

I 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.

You for real?
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