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The jet pack: the Segway of the adjacent possible (flying cars are the juicero) I’d ride either for a thrill one time, neither regularly as a practical mode of transportation
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Some notable folks in technology have used the “failure” of the Jetpack as a basis to a grand thesis. Welp that thesis is incorrect and popular personal flying “Jetpacks” are heading your way—fast. twitter.com/TechAmazing/st
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I tend to believe you but I am naturally skeptical of any human being's ability to accurately predict (1) how much they would find it fun to use one of these and (2) how often they would use one assuming one was available at reasonable cost.
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I want a flying motorcycle, or as puts it a "SkyDoo", which seems to be the best form factor, though I'm assuming you'd need to run it on nitromethane or something to get the energy density to make it practical.
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If they: - cost 10% of their current price of $440k - lasted 10x longer than their current 4 minutes run time - were legal to use in a city (i.e. Austin) Then I totally would, regularly. Don't think that's going to happen soon, if ever.
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The overriding problem of any scaled-up mode of transportation is collision avoidance and ingress/egress speed. These are probably going to end up as theme park attractions after the rest of the world has gotten used to flying buses plying levitating routes.
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Flying cars are heading your way—Fast. youtube.com/watch?v=CHDa_o Been watching these. Investors are really excited about it for some reason. Like those jetpacks, the main market seems to be military or short range transport.
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