• @TheGrandNagus
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    9 months ago

    …they think they’ll be flying them within 4 years despite battery tech being a fair way off? Huh?

  • @[email protected]
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    189 months ago

    2028 conveniently is just far enough away for us to have forgotten all about those claims by then

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    9 months ago

    If a vote come to ban this in my city I’d go knock on doors and try get as much support for banning them as I can.

  • @LightDelaBlue
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    129 months ago

    No thanks . Cars are already super noisy . So a glorified quadcopter …

  • originalucifer
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    119 months ago

    rich people with too much money pretending to have a problem to solve. most people arent using the helicopters this use case covers

    this is just bored rich people building stuff they think is cool, most of which is a dead end

  • rem26_art
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    109 months ago

    and in 2029 TikTok teens are gonna be stealing them with USB drives

    • @AbidanYre
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      39 months ago

      Himself, and other CEOs of multinational conglomerates.

  • @[email protected]
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    59 months ago

    Hydrogen might actually make sense for these, since you need extreme energy density. But I doubt they’ll be very widespread because of airspace restrictions and faa approval. I don’t see how they’d be that much more common than city helicopters are now.

  • Lad
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    49 months ago

    Can I just have a government subsidised EV so I can stop polluting pls

  • @darthsid
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    -69 months ago

    Yeah maybe if the wars in the world subside.

    • @[email protected]
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      -29 months ago

      If anything, wars are an amazing source of technological advancement.

      This is not to say that I want war, but to acknowledge the fact that it absolutely fuel innovation

      • Deceptichum
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        49 months ago

        Broken window fallacy.

        The same funds used to pay for wars and wartime rnd could just be spent directly on rnd.

        • @AbidanYre
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          19 months ago

          Could be, but usually aren’t.