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Re:Ask HN: What projects are 20 years ahead of their time? by cousin_it on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @10:14AM (#14603942)
Lilium and Magic Leap are fake, idk about the others.
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Re:Ask HN: What projects are 20 years ahead of their time? by ricardobeat on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @10:31AM (#14604103)
Lilium test flight: https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/20/15369850/lilium-jet-flyin...
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Re:Ask HN: What projects are 20 years ahead of their time? by dis-sys on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @10:53AM (#14604286)
it is fake. two observations:

1. they sent a pre-recorded video to the media instead of inviting the media to witness the test flight. those who are capable of building such flying cars don't make stupid mistakes in such scale.

2. it has 36 engines, good luck for the vibrational modes.

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Re:Ask HN: What projects are 20 years ahead of their time? by amelius on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @11:35AM (#14604674)
Also wondering what its radius of flight would be.
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Re:Ask HN: What projects are 20 years ahead of their time? by wrcwill on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @10:26AM (#14604059)
What do you mean by fake? I'll admit everytime i checked out magic leap it seemed very unspecific and vague, without any actual demos. Are you saying the company doesnt even exist or just that it has unrealistic goals?

And if their goal isn't even to release a product what is it?

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Re:Ask HN: What projects are 20 years ahead of their time? by Babooster on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @10:32AM (#14604110)
Sucking investor money.
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Re:Ask HN: What projects are 20 years ahead of their time? by lokimedes on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @05:19PM (#14608038)
Like Uber?
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