Coolest gadgets from the CES show?
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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.
