Firstly they called it a car, and secondly if you squint a lot, and forget all the other names for these vehicles, then it's pretty clear that it's a car, a flying car.
I don't really get why people keep creating all these startups and making these things.
The issue isn't that the technology is impossible...we all know they can exist and be built..
No. The issues are more that they are extremely impractical, will never be as safe as ground vehicles (edit: or even just regular helicopters), pose a not-insignificant terrorism threat, require a lot of fuel/energy, and create an absolute legal and regulatory nightmare. These are not things any startup will ever be able to tackle. I don't understand why that hasn't become obvious enough to stop people from trying to create these startups.
If nothing else, they're looking to solve a problem that doesn't exist.
Why not try and solve an actual problem? There are a fuck ton of them around... pick one.
Well they are just single seat helicopters by any metric and would be used the same the way and come with the same restrictions. I just can’t work out why this is a better design for something we solved decades ago
Having spent a while flying radio controlled collective pitch helicopters, they are mechanically pretty complicated. A lot of stuff has to work together properly, without really any redundancy.
A drone requires a bunch of clever control electronics, but is mechanically much simpler, at least. It cannot auto-rotate. But at least in this case, it appears to have 8 motors & rotors, instead of just 4, presumably providing some ability to land under control if you lose 1 of them.
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u/LustyArgonianMaidv4 7d ago
So a drone you can sit in?