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The CEO of Hyundai’s electric air-taxi subsidiary thinks we’ll be flying in them by 2028—but admits batteries aren’t there yet (fortune.com)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 30 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

...they think they'll be flying them within 4 years despite battery tech being a fair way off? Huh?

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 25 points 11 months ago

Gotta pretend for the shareholders

[–] uzay@infosec.pub 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

2028 conveniently is just far enough away for us to have forgotten all about those claims by then

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

That's how visionaire-ism works!

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The Elon strategy.

"FSD in two years..."

"Mars landing by 2024..."

[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

If a vote come to ban this in my city I'd go knock on doors and try get as much support for banning them as I can.

[–] DarkenLM@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

Sign my petition, damn it!

[–] LightDelaBlue@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

No thanks . Cars are already super noisy . So a glorified quadcopter ...

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 11 points 11 months ago

rich people with too much money pretending to have a problem to solve. most people arent using the helicopters this use case covers

this is just bored rich people building stuff they think is cool, most of which is a dead end

[–] rem26_art@kbin.social 10 points 11 months ago

and in 2029 TikTok teens are gonna be stealing them with USB drives

[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

“We”?

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Himself, and other CEOs of multinational conglomerates.

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hydrogen might actually make sense for these, since you need extreme energy density. But I doubt they'll be very widespread because of airspace restrictions and faa approval. I don't see how they'd be that much more common than city helicopters are now.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 11 months ago

Oh the humanity...

[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 4 points 11 months ago

Can I just have a government subsidised EV so I can stop polluting pls

[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Fuck off.

[–] Aopen@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago

Paris will ban them before thier release lol