They're almost here: the Flying Car/Taxi META Thread

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a Phractyl Macrobat!

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Ten different and unique approaches to eVTOLs:

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Vertical is aiming for a 2024 certification:

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Archer's bird flew for the first time (hover test):



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Emrbaer's Eve evtol company will be spun off and made public:

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This is one is actually cool. I look forward to watching if they are actually successful in their flight testing and if they can be at full scale.

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CEO's of helicopter companies are not worried about evtols:

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Hover bike!

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Joby built a 2nd test evtol:

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Chinese evtol company is seeking approval for the Chinese equivalent of the FAA:

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Zeva is a strange evtol and flown. It looks like a UFO:

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Bellweather's hype falls flat with its actual test item flight. it looks like just a mod'ed quad copter:

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The AirCar has received a slovakian airworthiness cert:

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The USAF remotely piloted an evtol:

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Joby's Evtol hit an airspeed of 205 mph and has a range of 154 miles:

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Some grumble the airtaxi/evtols are being called Flying cars:

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The US Air Force is backing a high speed, amphibious eVTOL:

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Zuri is changing propulsion systems:

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The US attorneys office has ended its investigation whether or not a former employee of Whisk brougth trade secrets to Archer:

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Joby has started their certification testing:

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And crashed. Flight tracking shows a speed of around 270 mph (though that's ground speed) at the time of the accident.

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And the NTSB is on it already:

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Sounds like overstressed the airframe.Or control problems at high speed..

Joby's ambitions in Japan:

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Volocopter is considering launching in Singapore:

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Eve is exploring working in Japan:

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Autoflight conducted its first VTOl and transition:

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Joby prototype had component failures causing its crash:

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Joby has established a presence in the UK:

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Volocopter hired a former Airbus exec for the role of CEO:

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Joby's prototype went down when pushing its envelope:

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Joby has returned to flight with a 2nd prototype:

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Suzuki has joined SkyDrive to work on its evtol:

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Air Greenland will lease evtols as regional taxis:

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EHang wins a contract for 60 evtols from Malaysia's aerotree:

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EVTOL COMPANY DISCOVERS THRUST VECTORING! NEWS AT 11!

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Hopefully they are hardwired with an unhackable machine language and can withstand EMP/EMF from various sources.

Safety should be priority number one with what is already in the skies vs. what the future plans to put in them... unfortunately the stupid Hindenburg took the safest mode of air travel out of our hands but it isn't like we couldn't modernize the dirigible with modern meta materials and power... also inflating and deflating that's what they used to do but is such a thing necessary? If human flight went to a modern dirigible and commercial flight went automated drone? Cool.

Using humans and other forms of life as beta "guinea pigs" with insurance payouts in the form of settlement in case of accident should with our technological advances be 404. What gets termed Ai can research and cross reference thousands of times faster find cause and effect calculate outcomes even down to specific genomes and coelated way faster than all single researchers ever could and they aren't biased in their findings of the truth of the matter or subject.

On the brightside it gives humans a pass for past research foibles related to the human condition; however any humans skewing the results of what Ai tosses up for any socio-politico-economic reasonings is obviously on them... even the perpetuation of past misinformation that has and continues to lead to poor education... definitely something we need to safeguard against and it is very likely that such a thing of skewing has occurred already; meaning it is very very important to catch that disease and prevent skewing as soon as humanly possible hold those accountable and work to prevent it moving on in the future... of such assistance to humans it is one of the most valuable contributions to society that any society we have ever had could know... applause to all involved in making that assistance possible.

Commuter should be by train that helps move large amounts of people from A to B between large cities and states such a thing would unclog them to maximize commerce and production as well as free up A lot of personal assets of workers where it isn't vehicle payments insurance payments fuel payments etc. the days of commute and rush hour traffic would be numbered also the technological advances more earth friendly to the various spheres of naturally occurring process gases that keep this planet habitable.

Moving beyond the wars of ideals such a thing as a future ideal can arise... as paradoxical as that may seem that's the only way the inhabitants of earth can actually reach an ideal for existence... basically making it happen instead of arguing about it.

Archer and United formed a committee for how to conduct evtol ops:

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Air taxi developer Eve to lean on Embraer for engineering, certification support

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Airbus picks electric motor supplier for CityAirbus NextGen

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Full-scale Air One eVTOL prototype unveiled at the Kentucky Derby

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Archer co-founder Adcock resigns from board weeks after leaving CEO post

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