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Passenger Carrying Drone

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  • #2
    jimbis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,358 ✭✭✭jimbis


    It's definitely the way things are heading although I can't see it taking over from the car (jetsons style) in my lifetime. Battery weight/life needs huge improvement for it to become mainstream. Along with major safety aspects.
    But as I read somewhere else, it's probably much safer sending your kids off to school in one of these than letting them run the gauntlet of the school run mummies texting, doing make up and giving out to the six kids in the back of the people carrier that we meet every morning....

    Still very cool to see this happening, what an age to be alive :D


  • #3
    Gaoth Laidir
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    From the lack of a hifen in the thread title I first thought it was about a passenger carrying a drone.

    This thing will never get off the ground [/pun]. All well and good setting a flightplanned and clicking Go but the passenger has no control? What about collision-avoidance, etc.? Nah, this ain't gonna work.


  • #4
    lintdrummer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,808 ✭✭✭lintdrummer


    jimbis wrote: »
    It's definitely the way things are heading although I can't see it taking over from the car (jetsons style) in my lifetime. Battery weight/life needs huge improvement for it to become mainstream. Along with major safety aspects.

    I was actually impressed by the supposed battery life of this, considering it can be fully charged in 2 hrs. They claim 23 mins of use at sea level (so probably based on ISA day). Lets say we allow 18 mins of use with a safety buffer to get it landed on low battery. They're claiming 100 KPH top speed. So at a more realistic 50 KPH speed it would allow a travel distance of roughly 15 KM - slightly less allowing for take off and landing. That's a decent distance as the crow flies and enough for many city commuters with deep pockets!
    But yes of course it is riddled with safety concerns and probably more legislative issues than it's worth!
    jimbis wrote: »
    Still very cool to see this happening, what an age to be alive :D

    Agreed! :D
    Gaoth Laidir wrote: »
    From the lack of a hifen in the thread title I first thought it was about a passenger carrying a drone.

    This thing will never get off the ground [/pun]. All well and good setting a flightplanned and clicking Go but the passenger has no control? What about collision-avoidance, etc.? Nah, this ain't gonna work.

    Apologies, hadn't noticed the dual meaning of the title.

    Yes, there are any amount of flaws with the whole idea of a passenger-carrying drone, but I see it as proof of concept more than anything. It's a major step in personal air transport and it may well never get off the ground, but I'm glad they had the balls to go ahead and make it anyway. It might end up as a short lived toy for the mega rich, but maybe these guys are actually dedicated to making something more of this. Non passenger carrying military and civilian drones are already flying all over the world and while it's a big leap to stick a person into one and trust it to do it's job correctly (not to mention all the other issues surrounding this, wind speeds being one that sprung to my mind), these concepts have to start somewhere and perhaps we are witnessing the evolution of a new mode of transport.


  • #5
    expectationlost
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    lintdrummer wrote: »
    http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/07/first-passenger-drone-makes-world-debut

    Nice looking machine. Would you trust it to take you to work in the morning? :D

    the person meet propellar problem might be higher then on your average prop planes as plane is srrounded by propellors


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