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Re: Regent – Electric coastal travel

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Post by krisoft »

AYBABTME wrote: post #190
jasonwatkinspdx wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This man is factually a racist. I am not simply labeling him that because we disagree as you insinuate, having no actual information on the situation. And no, I see zero reason to tolerate what is clearly bad faith behavior.

In the text you shared, you imply that other readers should come to the conclusion that he's a racist because he's against public transit due to fear of crime being imported. But you made no connections as to how his claims of crime import were related to a race component. So it's understandable that readers might not find your "racist" labeling justified based on the facts that you shared. He might be a racist but b…

> you imply that other readers should come to the conclusion that he's a racist

I see no such implication.

Re: Regent – Electric coastal travel

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Post by manarth »

dragonwriter wrote: post #175
wthalheimer wrote: post #56

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Seaglider entry to service is slated for mid-decade so you're spot on, all these are pre-launch sales. We're one of the few companies in the space with firm, nonrefundable deposits and contractually obligated pre-delivery payments (that scale with milestones as you mentioned) on the full first year of these orders. We take off at the periphery of harbors and fly over the open water in-between. Seagliders have 5ft wav…

It seems intuitively like there would be potential for inland use along navigable waterways as well as coastal use-

Inland waterways often have very low speed limits (e.g. 5 knots). Typically to reduce the impact/erosion of the wash/wake of a vessel.

I could see potential in large inland such as the Great Lakes though.

Re: Regent – Electric coastal travel

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Post by fwlr »

wthalheimer wrote: post #119
simonw wrote: post #103

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Have you considered having swappable batteries, so you can skip the recharging time entirely?

Definitely considered. Swapping means specialized training, specialized equipment (these batteries are thousands of lbs), and mass storages of batteries to be on-hand at your docks. All drive the cost higher. So far our customers have not indicated that the charge times cause them problems, and the cost savings are significant in charge vs swap. Plus, this way seagliders can potentially utilize the same charging infr…

Swapping batteries probably isn’t a good idea but swapping planes might be. A lot of desirable routes like SF LA become possible with two flights, if an operator sets up a halfway point with charging stations you could disembark one plane and embark the next. The plane they just flew in on starts charging and becomes the second leg plane for the next flight through there. With even just one plane sitting there you can support a trip every 45m-1h.

Re: Regent – Electric coastal travel

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Post by rwmj »

arcticbull wrote: post #158
jtsuken wrote: post #138

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To skip TSA nonsense you just need to skip TSA nonsense. Outside of the US airtravel is still relatively similar to rail. You have to be on time, you have to handle the baggage, but you can walk through xray and security within minutes and only need to show the ticket on your phone. An electric wing-in-ground-effect aircraft still looks like an airplane and might still fall under the same regulations as any other air…

> Outside of the US airtravel is still relatively similar to rail. You have to be on time, you have to handle the baggage, but you can walk through xray and security within minutes and only need to show the ticket on your phone. Same if you have Pre and Clear. I usually get to the airport 30-40m early. That said I'm usually at the train station 10m before departure with bags.

Why don't all the bad actors just apply for the same programme?

Re: Regent – Electric coastal travel

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Post by eCa »

jtsuken wrote: post #138
lastofthemojito wrote: post #63

I was initially skeptical, but seeing Mokulele Airlines (an airline serving Hawaii) flash by on the carousel made me consider that this might have at least some real-world uses. It's insane to me that the vast majority of inter-island travel in Hawaii (an archipelago where generally each island is visible from the next) is via jet aircraft. You have to spend hours (especially if you're checking bags) getting to the a…

To skip TSA nonsense you just need to skip TSA nonsense. Outside of the US airtravel is still relatively similar to rail. You have to be on time, you have to handle the baggage, but you can walk through xray and security within minutes and only need to show the ticket on your phone. An electric wing-in-ground-effect aircraft still looks like an airplane and might still fall under the same regulations as any other air…

> Outside of the US airtravel is still relatively similar to rail.

I live in the EU. There is nothing similar. Two hours at the airport being put in several different queues, often in a high stress atmosphere.

Train travel: Five-ten minutes at the station, all done.

Yes, I’m partial to trains.

Re: Regent – Electric coastal travel

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Post by kenneth »

jtsuken wrote: post #138
lastofthemojito wrote: post #63

I was initially skeptical, but seeing Mokulele Airlines (an airline serving Hawaii) flash by on the carousel made me consider that this might have at least some real-world uses. It's insane to me that the vast majority of inter-island travel in Hawaii (an archipelago where generally each island is visible from the next) is via jet aircraft. You have to spend hours (especially if you're checking bags) getting to the a…

To skip TSA nonsense you just need to skip TSA nonsense. Outside of the US airtravel is still relatively similar to rail. You have to be on time, you have to handle the baggage, but you can walk through xray and security within minutes and only need to show the ticket on your phone. An electric wing-in-ground-effect aircraft still looks like an airplane and might still fall under the same regulations as any other air…

TSA is not required for intra-state travel in the USA. Many rural airports that don't have out of state connections (e.g. most of Alaska) lack TSA.

Re: Regent – Electric coastal travel

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Post by cjrp »

skrebbel wrote: post #213
jasonwatkinspdx wrote: post #134

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This is a perennial favorite of transportation NIMBYs. Where I live extending the light rail the last little bit over the river to Washington state is a no brainer, but it's been paralyzed by decades of opposition from suburbanites in Vancouver Wa. My friend's dad is/was one of the key activists. He'd stand in planning meetings and no joke scream about how "criminals" were gonna ride the train up, break into someone'…

I don’t completely follow, this is people living in a Portland suburb lobbying against getting a public transport connection? How is less infrastructure better?

Because the people who live there all have cars, so they don't see any positives only the (false) negatives.

Re: Regent – Electric coastal travel

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Post by noduerme »

adgjlsfhk1 wrote: post #172
noduerme wrote: post #167

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One case where they don't would be commercial roads with small shops that rely on street parking. But the comment you're responding to was talking about residential, and I haven't seen enough dispositive data on that one way or another. Like anything, it's probably a mixed bag.

Nope. There too. It turns out that foot traffic and bike traffic do a lot more for small shops than cars do (because drivers go fast enough that they don't pay attention to 90% of the small shops).

This would really be relative to what kinds of shops, and the layout of the street parking (if any) after the bike lane is put in place. You're assuming that bike traffic is sufficient to make up for car traffic. But if it's a market, a bicyclist or pedestrian might only buy one bag worth of goods, while someone driving up with a car might be there to buy three. Similarly, you're assuming there's increased foot traffic; but the foot traffic doesn't increase just because parking is replaced with a bike lane, so that's basically static.

Re: Regent – Electric coastal travel

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Post by noduerme »

deserialized wrote: post #194
noduerme wrote: post #128

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Really? My street was recently turned into a greenway / bike street, and it's brought me nothing but an endless bike parade of smug white people in silly clothing. Just a couple hours ago, I was having to get my car towed and the tow driver was 3/4 into turning slowly back into the street when two women on bikes zoomed right in front of him, causing him to slam the brakes. One of them then shouted "Thank you!" over h…

Lmao, that's the worst of it? A guy had to brake sharply once? And people were polite to him afterwards? The utter tragedy. I'll trade you streets and you can deal with the 3 dead kids from traffic incidents over the last 5 years

Sadly, whingeing narcissists and traffic accidents aren't mutually exclusive where I live. I guess we all have to live with idiots wherever we are.

Re: Regent – Electric coastal travel

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Post by noduerme »

thecopy wrote: post #188
noduerme wrote: post #128

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Really? My street was recently turned into a greenway / bike street, and it's brought me nothing but an endless bike parade of smug white people in silly clothing. Just a couple hours ago, I was having to get my car towed and the tow driver was 3/4 into turning slowly back into the street when two women on bikes zoomed right in front of him, causing him to slam the brakes. One of them then shouted "Thank you!" over h…

>endless bike parade This would be the first time im hearing about something like this. It sounds like the bike path was very successful. Do you have more information?

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