Re:United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic
by nacs on Thursday June 03, 2021 @10:24AM
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That's the point OP is making -- that people early on will be nay-sayers (like in the 2005 post) that then turns out to be false.
Re:United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic
by iainmerrick on Thursday June 03, 2021 @10:31AM
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Ah, I see, thanks!
I still think the questions are perfectly reasonable. But maybe it just needs to be phrased as “how do they plan to address these?” rather than “which ones have they solved?”
Re:United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic
by SideburnsOfDoom on Thursday June 03, 2021 @10:59AM
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> that then turns out to be false.
That then turned out to become increasingly false over time. Buying the early stage product is a risky bet, you hope it will take off like that, but it might not. They do need a plan to address them, and to be trustworthy.
- Charging network: don’t they have their own network? I’m sure it’s not widespread enough to meet everyone’s needs, but it’s not nothing and helped get the ball rolling.
- Battery tech: has been gradually improving, range is now in the hundreds of miles which is enough for many uses.
- Too expensive / everybody wants an SUV: starting with luxury and sports models and gradually following up with mass-market models addresses both of these.
So I think the analogous questions for Boom are good and valid questions. Tesla had decent answers and Boom should too.