Larry Page’s startups working on flying cars
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Larry Page’s startups working on flying cars
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Re: Larry Page’s startups working on flying cars
#2> “Self-flying aircraft is so much easier than what the auto companies are trying to do with self-driving cars”
I guess until everybody starts using them :)
Re: Larry Page’s startups working on flying cars
#3Distributed electric propulsion is promising, check out the NASA papers.
Re: Larry Page’s startups working on flying cars
#4By the way, their job openings are all for B.S. and M.S. level (no Ph.D.), which seems a bit odd.
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#5I'm sure this is something Elon Musk would be trying to make, too, because there's a lot of expertise that his companies already have to build something like this: autonomous tech, rocket engineers, batteries, electric powertrains, solar panels, and he has already said he would probably build an electric airplane next.
If only he had the money to experiment with something like this. That's why I'm hoping that Apple buys Tesla eventually and makes Musk its CEO and lets him do whatever he wants with those $150+ billion (maybe $300 billion by then) cash reserves.
And apparently he's already toying with flying stuff:
Re: Larry Page’s startups working on flying cars
#6> Self-flying
Meh. That would be taking the fun out of it, taking away the very point.
Re: Larry Page’s startups working on flying cars
#7I'm sure this is something Elon Musk would be trying to make, too, because there's a lot of expertise that his companies already have to build something like this: autonomous tech, rocket engineers, batteries, electric powertrains, solar panels, and he has already said he would probably build an electric airplane next. If only he had the money to experiment with something like this. That's why I'm hoping that Apple b…
Apple still has to produce a product larger than a TV. Currently they seem very far and very different from Tesla.
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#8I think that autonomous vehicles make flying cars possible. On one hand, learning to fly is difficult (the problem has a dimension more than driving on the surface) and people really do not like wreckage falling from the sky. So one needs a highly trained expert to pilot any flying vehicle, or a fully autonomous autopilot.
The second thing is energy, a plane needs to handle a lot more energy than a car, simply because it flies, so it is more expensive. If someone own a flying car, then they are investing a lot into a capability they use very rarely. With a Uber like model of shared transportation one orders a car only when one needs it. And it makes sense to have a flying car in the pool, even at a hundred times the cost of a regular vehicle. So each individual customer will use that flying car almost never, but there are many, and the ones who pay a $100 to shave five minutes of their time are probably in that moment very happy, that they have that option.
Re: Larry Page’s startups working on flying cars
#9> “Self-flying aircraft is so much easier than what the auto companies are trying to do with self-driving cars” I guess until everybody starts using them :)
I think they are getting at the 3 dimensions available and a lot less fixed and unpredictable 'vehicles', including people... Hopefully they'll standardise things, or maybe we'll end up with Apple airspace that users pay to fly in and lower down in the smog some 'open access' space...
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#10By the way, their job openings are all for B.S. and M.S. level (no Ph.D.), which seems a bit odd.
Maybe they need people who do work every day, not just think, talk, or write about doing work.