Uber Hires Veteran NASA Engineer to Develop Flying Cars

Re:Uber Hires Veteran NASA Engineer to Develop Flying Cars by Xunxi on Monday February 06, 2017 @02:16PM (#13582882)

The fact that big money is being funneled into the idea makes it more plausible that ever.

Theres a lot of R&D going on behind the scenes, it no longer a lone wolf undertaking.

Its likely all these personal air vehicle will fly-by-wire; perhaps Uber leveraging Otto's core algorithm for other uses? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g6cCYoDWzM

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Re:Uber Hires Veteran NASA Engineer to Develop Flying Cars by iaw on Monday February 06, 2017 @10:36PM (#13586782)

> The fact that big money is being funneled into the idea makes it more plausible that ever.

Big money has been funneled into a number of pipe dreams before, it didn't make them practical.

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