Coolest gadgets from the CES show?
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@scottalanmiller said:
But the great thing is that it covers places that are close but roads can't handle. Like if a bridge is out or a ravine or rough terrain.
Range is only 38km though. 23 minute hover time at 100km/h.
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Of course i'm not thinking of these things with today's tech, I'm thinking of them with tomorrows, where they can move 600 miles on a charge, hell 200 miles on a charge with a recharge time of 15 mins or less.
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The rated weight is 100kg. I currently weigh 98.6kg. does not leave any spare room for my toolkit and PC bag.
Guess I need to lose more weight.
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Would you stop crapping on this toy
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@Dashrender There are already mods out there for normal drones to run on alternate power, so I can see the range increasing pretty simply.
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
This type of technology could kill the national aviation scene, don't you think? In a good way?
Trains didn't. Why would this? This is really only good for really short distances.
Because this gets rid of the schedule.
If you can hope into your private drone and just set it for Denver (a normal destination for me 8 hrs by car) This would be awesome! Even if the drone needed 2 recharging stops along the way, if the time was reduced by 50%, Why take a plane?
They already have small planes. Other than the licensing thing.....
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Bah, my google-fu is failing this morning. but I did see an article in the last few days about a mod that provides power from something not a battery.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
This type of technology could kill the national aviation scene, don't you think? In a good way?
Trains didn't. Why would this? This is really only good for really short distances.
Because this gets rid of the schedule.
If you can hope into your private drone and just set it for Denver (a normal destination for me 8 hrs by car) This would be awesome! Even if the drone needed 2 recharging stops along the way, if the time was reduced by 50%, Why take a plane?
They already have small planes. Other than the licensing thing.....
I see something like this replacing the ultralight models that do not need licensing now.
Of course I also see government stepping in and requiring licensing.
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With the right drone licensing (of the implementation) maybe we won't need the people to be licensed, though.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
This type of technology could kill the national aviation scene, don't you think? In a good way?
Trains didn't. Why would this? This is really only good for really short distances.
Because this gets rid of the schedule.
If you can hope into your private drone and just set it for Denver (a normal destination for me 8 hrs by car) This would be awesome! Even if the drone needed 2 recharging stops along the way, if the time was reduced by 50%, Why take a plane?
They already have small planes. Other than the licensing thing.....
That's just it though, the licensing thing. The expense (yeah I'm sure these will be expensive at first too) And they are still huge, you can't really store them in suburbia.
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@scottalanmiller said:
With the right drone licensing (of the implementation) maybe we won't need the people to be licensed, though.
Exactly. I see these types of vehicles tying themselves into a central flight system, you'll simply tell it where you want to go, and it checks with the central computer and away you go. The system tracks you and routes everyone as they need to be moved to be safe.
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@Dashrender said:
And they are still huge, you can't really store them in suburbia.
Will be a simple matter of engineering the arms to retract or fold and adding small wheels to push it into the garage.
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@JaredBusch said:
@Dashrender said:
And they are still huge, you can't really store them in suburbia.
Will be a simple matter of engineering the arms to retract or fold and adding small wheels to push it into the garage.
Small planes? Small planes are still generally 15+ feet long
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
With the right drone licensing (of the implementation) maybe we won't need the people to be licensed, though.
Exactly. I see these types of vehicles tying themselves into a central flight system, you'll simply tell it where you want to go, and it checks with the central computer and away you go. The system tracks you and routes everyone as they need to be moved to be safe.
Will not happen in the US anytime soon. It should, but it will be derided and politicized as big brother government overreach
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@Dashrender said:
@JaredBusch said:
@Dashrender said:
And they are still huge, you can't really store them in suburbia.
Will be a simple matter of engineering the arms to retract or fold and adding small wheels to push it into the garage.
Small planes? Small planes are still generally 15+ feet long
Many garages in my city can't even hold an F150, let along a folded up small Plane. An ultra-light, sure, when it's really disassembled.
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@Dashrender said:
@Dashrender said:
@JaredBusch said:
@Dashrender said:
And they are still huge, you can't really store them in suburbia.
Will be a simple matter of engineering the arms to retract or fold and adding small wheels to push it into the garage.
Small planes? Small planes are still generally 15+ feet long
Many garages in my city can't even hold an F150, let along a folded up small Plane. An ultra-light, sure, when it's really disassembled.
The body of this is 2 meters. max length fully extended everything is 4 meters. This is well small enough to fit in almost any garage. The width is the killer on this for an american garage.
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@Dashrender said:
Many garages in my city can't even hold an F150,
Because they are full of crap?
I live in a coach home in in suburbia. My garage can easily fit this assuming it folded the propeller arms.
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@Dashrender said:
Would you stop crapping on this toy
BTW, I seriously want a flying something. I hate the drive up and down I-55.
I'll sacrifice speed, as I normally set the cruise control at 130km/h and this this only goes 100km/h, for the convenience of a fairly automated straight flight.
The direct path from my house to my client is nearly 400km. So it would still be a 4 hour trip same as by car.
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But you could be doing other things while the drone carried you where you wanted to go. Come up with a way to add a gas powered generator to it so it can kick in if your battery power gets too low or something?
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@dafyre said:
Come up with a way to add a gas powered generator to it so it can kick in if your battery power gets too low or something?
Extra power is easy. But it adds cost, complexity and most critically in a flying machine, weight.
