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Lee Duna to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish •
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The CEO of Hyundai’s electric air-taxi subsidiary thinks we’ll be flying in them by 2028—but admits batteries aren’t there yet

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The CEO of Hyundai’s electric air-taxi subsidiary thinks we’ll be flying in them by 2028—but admits batteries aren’t there yet

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Supernal, a Hyundai-backed air taxi, thinks 2028 is when we’ll see commercial air taxis
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Supernal’s CEO thinks 2028 is a realistic target because there will be infrastructure to support air taxis.
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  • @TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    …they think they’ll be flying them within 4 years despite battery tech being a fair way off? Huh?

    • @stoy@lemmy.zip
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      Gotta pretend for the shareholders

  • @uzay@infosec.pub
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    18•1 year ago

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

    • TimeSquirrel
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      The Elon strategy.

      “FSD in two years…”

      “Mars landing by 2024…”

    • andrew_bidlaw
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      That’s how visionaire-ism works!

  • @Wanderer@lemm.ee
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    1 year 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.

    • DarkenLM
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      Sign my petition, damn it!

  • @LightDelaBlue@lemmy.world
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    12•1 year ago

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

  • rem26_art
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    and in 2029 TikTok teens are gonna be stealing them with USB drives

  • originalucifer
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    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

  • Deceptichum
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    “We”?

    • @AbidanYre@lemmy.world
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      Himself, and other CEOs of multinational conglomerates.

  • @AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com
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    deleted by creator

  • @JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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    5•1 year 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.

    • Trailblazing Braille Taser
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      6•1 year ago

      Oh the humanity…

  • @darthsid@lemmy.world
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    Yeah maybe if the wars in the world subside.

    • @stoy@lemmy.zip
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      4•1 year 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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        Broken window fallacy.

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

        • @stoy@lemmy.zip
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          That is fair, I mainly wanted to counter the claim that wars won’t advance tech

        • @AbidanYre@lemmy.world
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          Could be, but usually aren’t.

  • @eran_morad@lemmy.world
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    deleted by creator

  • @Aopen@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Paris will ban them before thier release lol

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