We have done this before in many threads e.g. here. That thread was 5 years ago and nothing has changed.
Dreams don’t create technology. R&D does, potentially. Despite a fantastic amount of R&D going into electric cars, the tech needed for this is not even remotely on the horizon, never mind at any meaningful discount to current helicopter options that would be needed to create the hyped mass market.
This whole thing is BS elevated a couple of orders of magnitude above the general marketing BS we see everywhere else.
loco wrote:
United ordered 200.
Ordered… so they are first IF this ever happens. Which ihmo it won’t.
Alone the quantities are stupid. If you have dozens of those contraptions PLUS drones flying in this airspace, it will become ultra congested, hence risk of collision is about as large than when you see a swarm of insects fly.
Insurers will reject that after the first few accidents if it goes that far. ATC will reject it, as it is unmanageable and takes so much airspace out of the already dense space, that it will massively disturb other activities. SAR organisations will fight it as in those numbers and over cities, they will impair their own operations.
I think it is ultra B.S in the way they dream it now. That quad copters may become a segment in the UL branch is a real possibility. And they might make neat little devices for that, maybe safer than others, but before they go commercial, LOADS of problems have to be solved, some of which are not solvable with the current structures.
