A fundamental obstacle to having anything smallish fly around is that, unless you just hang it from a gas bag, it will be noisy as hell. But this never stopped drone hype and I am sure it will be no barrier to fundraising for this next VC bonfire
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What's described in the article is just a variety of ultralight aircraft that could be made into a luxury air taxi service if we repealed a ton of aviation safety regulations (like requiring a pilot). My favorite is the one that costs $150K and has a 25 mile range.pic.twitter.com/DwN4kd9eBH
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If a bunch of recreational pilots called for the elimination of half the FAA so that ultralights could rain down on Manhattan during the first big thunderstorm, they would not get a NYT profile. But computer programmers arriving at the same place from first principles get respect
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Why can't Silicon Valley just build the public transit system of any fourth-tier Japanese city? Why does money that could pay for that a dozen times over get funneled into this shit, or firing Bezos into space?
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But that's the state of innovation in America. Any fun technology targeted at individual wealthy users gets funded, often on promises of regulatory repeal. Meanwhile the most modest attempts at public works, no matter how much they improve quality of life, have no chance.
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They’re called “helicopters”
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this feels like mostly an energy density problem that goes from "impossible" to "easy enough" with a thin level of "almost works, mitigated by engineering" in the middle
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and we may never get to the appropriate energy density, i guess
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Almost nothing is more of a negative forward indicator for this company than them buying failed drone startup 3d robotics and bringing on “former Weird magazine editor” Chris Anderson as COO. (And I know a thing or two about failing at drone startups)
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If by 'negative forward indicator' you mean they'll never get to market, yes. But Chris Anderson is PRECISELY who you want as COO on a bullshit startup if what you want to accomplish is bullshit buzz inflation.
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