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
@jherrm 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. -
This is the Pal-V gyroplane. I’ve driven past their HQ/factory and flew their simulator at Oshkosh.
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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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Given LA traffic I think you'll change your mind once they are widely available.
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