Larry Page is pouring millions into flying cars

Re:Larry Page is pouring millions into flying cars by bobsil1 on Friday December 30, 2016 @05:33PM (#13288074)

You're thinking too narrowly.

- Solve traffic

- Live in Santa Cruz, commute to SF

- Buy a mansion in Modesto, commute to Palo Alto

- The views!

These will be VTOL, electric, autonomous air taxis, not road-drivable cars.

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Re:Larry Page is pouring millions into flying cars by amelius on Friday December 30, 2016 @05:40PM (#13288122)

> The views!

Obviously, these will be blocked by swarms of flying cars.

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Re:Larry Page is pouring millions into flying cars by bobsil1 on Friday December 30, 2016 @05:55PM (#13288239)

Long after they're blocked by swarms of delivery drones.

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Re:Larry Page is pouring millions into flying cars by knz on Friday December 30, 2016 @08:30PM (#13288890)

I'm skeptical about delivery drones for this reason. Between the noise, security concerns, and visual pollution it will be hard to implement mass adoption of UAV's for delivery.

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Re:Larry Page is pouring millions into flying cars by tracker1 on Saturday December 31, 2016 @04:42PM (#13293329)

I could see delivery drones for last-mile drop offs... imagine delivery trucks as automated machines with a small swarm of drones (4-6) per truck.. the truck drives a route on the main street(s), while the drones do the drop-off to the door.

It could work in that scenario... My biggest thought for drones, is it won't work from the distribution centers, simply because they are too far out from a lot of the drop off locations.. but combined with trucks, you could have the trucks drive less in-out, and drones for drop off. Would need a handler in addition to a driver though, depending on automation capability.

This would also need to be supplemented with uber-like service for deliveries that don't fit well for drone drops.

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Re:Larry Page is pouring millions into flying cars by bobsil1 on Friday December 30, 2016 @08:40PM (#13288928)

You can run the motors out of phase to cancel noise.

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Re:Larry Page is pouring millions into flying cars by mannykannot on Saturday December 31, 2016 @09:50AM (#13291246)

It doesn't work.

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Re:Larry Page is pouring millions into flying cars by beambot on Friday December 30, 2016 @05:41PM (#13288136)

> - Live in Santa Cruz, commute to SF

Or we could be more ecologically and energy conscious...

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Re:Larry Page is pouring millions into flying cars by base698 on Friday December 30, 2016 @09:20PM (#13289057)

Like the people currently taking private jets and helicopters!

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Re:Larry Page is pouring millions into flying cars by sAuronas on Friday December 30, 2016 @05:38PM (#13288107)

+1 travel as the crow flies from Oakland to Mountain View in a fraction of the time. Pagether

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Re:Larry Page is pouring millions into flying cars by cooper12 on Friday December 30, 2016 @07:22PM (#13288655)

Do people really believe that flying cars would solve traffic? Now all the traffic is in the sky! And thanks for ruining everyone else's view with your cars. Not to mention flying cars would be extremely hazardous depending on the height. You'd pretty much be required to create specific airways and means of signaling at busy locations. Congratulations, you just created another layer of roads.

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Re:Larry Page is pouring millions into flying cars by bobsil1 on Friday December 30, 2016 @08:40PM (#13288931)

You can stack the traffic. Delivery drones will kill the view anyway. You can build in passive safety + have them follow freeways.

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