eVTOL: electric flying car beats helicopters in silent commute 

The Army and NASA has shown interest, and have supported in the ultimate stealth flying machine!

They could have cut the engine on chase aircraft.

Practically geniuses. This should've been implemented before or during hand drones were offered. Those fear of evtol days, are over.

@@rolflandale2565the Public fear still exists, for example if you read comments on other sites, people go off on every negative possible. The pessimistic say JOBY will be too dangerous, we already have Helicopters, we don't need eVTOL's, high wind will cause crashes, first crash with injury or death will end this dream, will be too expensive to fly, I'll never fly in one or a pilotless one, where will they land, FAA won't allow, too much competition, won't every happen, and on and on. I disagree with all the pessimism, I am a big JOBY fan. My brother is an expert pilot, he was skeptical at first, then realized, buy buy buy stock or regret at these levels. He admitted he started to buy into a position, a duh moment. We only get a few chances in life to hit a stock large, and this is one, could be a huge success, if you have patience.

@M C Helicopters lack the counter redundancy of multi-engine support. When you compare the dangers of a car and the cruise methods of aircraft, both have a chance of survival with initiative actions. If a classic mono-engine helicopter malfunctions, it will plunge like a rock. The helicopter casualties have a very high death ratio. From famous celebrities to most practical pilots with absolute manual navigation. Jobby has a lot of bureaucracy in structure rendering, but the price is to apply safety.

@@MC-yb5le You should know that, the FAA never allows aircrafts to run until almost a decade test is done, some are lucky its sooner than that.

@@rolflandale2565 FAA will fast track the certification of Joby and Archer --- they know these aircraft are safe because of redundancy

Glad it was helpful!

What a waste of time and energy! Just imagine the skies plugged with this stuff ; all beteen 50 and150 feet elevation!!!? What a train wreck waiting to happen! Probably another Federal Funded project! A crony capitalist funded project !😆😡

@@paulratzlaff2935 All personal opinions welcomed! Thank you!

yes, if it is possible to fly with 2/6 damaged or more and they are all independent then it would be pretty safe

@@martinuso7446 I doubt that would ever happen though.

with multiple electric motors, all of which can be controlled independently, if a motor is not performing correctly it can be shutdown & remaining motors receive more power to compensate. Having wing like structures also allows for added lift/glide as opposed to "auto rotating" (aka crashing - falling like a rock) in a traditional helicopter. With six motors as long as if four remain operational this should allow for a controlled landing.

Let's try to remember that battery packs can also be redundant --- so in order for a catastrophic failure and crash, this aircraft would need more than two rotors to fail as well as multiple battery packs --- literally close to zero chance!

This is something we need to see. Investors are bright enough to know that the minute one of these things drops out of the sky carrying passengers, their investment could easily go to zero.

Thousands of us own JOBY stock, not a con man, reel deal. Don't miss out.

Two terrific minds in harness.

Thank you! I agree that my husband definitely has a more in-depth knowledge of most topics than I (he really does love reading about nearly any topic). Thank you for your comments on the editing. It's very labor intensive so appreciate when people notice.

Totally agree!

Closer to an Osprey military plane.

Yes ! Exactly my first thought, thanks for pointing it out. I believe the Robinson R-22 would be a little smaller when I look at the wingspan (+ fans), and from my experience in drones (quad), losing one engine is quite dramatic (immediate loss of control due to assymetry), nowhere near the "chill" you feel when you have power loss on an R-22, you maintain level and you can autorotate if you're high enough.

Very little in common wirh a conventional helicopter nearer to a large rc model aircraft/drone.

They are always helicopters with extra steps

Yes it does it has three wheels like a Robin Reliant 😂

That thing is amazing!! Hopefully battery tech will take the leap and and put an end to 100LL finally

Anything is quiet if you recorded it 300ft away...

It’s an osprey

@@Helloverlord they showed different sound signature of various aircraft’s at the same distance and mentioned that this thing is below 70dB at lift off

What is the sound power at take off compared to helicopters or planes ? How does it match the WHO requirements in the envrironment (55 dB Lden) ? The 65 dB commented in the video does not mean anything : is it pressure ? Where with respect to the source ? Envisioning this kind of things closer to densely populated area than current aircraft will certainly come with noise pollution issue and sorry but the only comparison is in fly by for which you are comparing to non noise regulated aircraft - being « quieter » than unregulated source does not mean anything (apart from the fact that there is indeed a huge noise issue with those objects)

I can’t wait until we rapidly surpass electric motors and get into plasma propulsion

If i could choose, i woud take the cure for cancer and solution to the hunger problem over any electric car.

Indeed!

​@@xargs0095 as long as their battery and other material production and disposal are safe

@@jareknowak8712 that one seems harder, if you feed people they reproduce more and then there are 2x, 3x,.. the amount of people with hunger

What does that thing cost ?

Argh, not another pod gadgetbahn company that wants to build something like a train but not as good as a train.

A remote quad drone less than a kilogram is subject to a bunch of regulations most people aren't aware of. People are hyped by the positive potential exclusively, they always forget about the 80% other important things : safety, qualifications, infrastructure, regulation of shared space, maintainance and spare parts/qualified vendors and contractors, tested and validated overall systems, operation and management........ At the end of the day (or the decade), it always all come down to what people didn't expect : the operational constraints doesn't meet lambda people expectations in terms of costs or complications, only a few elite will have access to the privilege or service, sometiles via costy dérogation or because you're a billionaire authorities may have trouble challenging. I don't even have a licence to fly an ultralight on my own from an airfield (we steal the flying time of a qualified pilot) and I have a thousand times the knowledge a lambda anyont have in terms of flying and rules/regulation, I know how sensible of a qualification it is, I cannot trust putting any of that very advanced tech vehicles in the hands of the first _"oh gosh it's so dope, I also want a flying car"_ dude : that's a recipe for disaster and drama. If people are regularly going down the road to change the chips of a drone toy to exceed the built-in altitude limitation by regulation, what kind of stupid rules breaking they would intentionally or inadvertently do with a "flying car"? Sharing airspace with people and properties below is the opposite of "having fun", you do care about at all times and abide by the rules, there is NO WAY you decide where you go, just like medevac ops today, you wait for instructions (air traffic control) and you strictly follows virtually already defined limited set of flight routes. We don't want that thing flying over schools or other areas with dense flocks of people walking, there must be regular suitable emergency crash land sites along the routes, like a stadium, highways, corn fields... The only "your fancy extraordinary personal car" that may find birth in a city is the one that meets all those conditions, like Tesla autopilot where a connected centralized service decides how to drive the car. For a flying car, it will be the same : you're not the one to have command, you just input a destination, then the company owning the service flies you there on through defined standardized flight paths and standardized connected "other fellow air travellers in nearby vehicles". That way, we get lambda people out of the equation in terms of training/qualification, and we get all vehicles standardized in terms of regulations, flight rules and behavior. Or else, no personal car, you go to a flying taxi port and you rent the service with a fully qualified trained pilot that will do his best to get you to another port/other places with special derogatory privileges, but he/she remains who has the last word. Hope this helps you have a better window displaying what will slowly take place in the future, so you don't build the wrong expectations from the start..

@@StephenKarl_Integral woah, well explained sir

I cant wait to pay 250$ to fly 4 min away!!!

I imagine it is really louder in person?

sooooo an Osprey?

It will be a fraction of the cost to run, and quiet, win win.

_"it needs to seat 5-7 people..."_ I'm not an engineer, but I'm aware the huge problem of electric flying things is _"not having enough battery to maintain that thing flying for hours _*_the heavier it gets"_* Unlike fossil energy that packs a lot of punch for a small drop of toxic fuel, electricity is like blowing a sheet of paper to maintain it airborne, so, how many people lungs and mouth do you need to maintain a book airborne ? The answer for electric aircraft is... just like airplanes : if you want to lift heavier mass, forget about V/STOL, you need a runway and trade time+distance for potential energy to be converted to lift via wings.

Hahaha, obviously you rarely visit or live in a congested city, for example: LA, NY, Dallas, Washington DC, Mexico City, Tokyo, South Korea and 100's of other congested cities across the world, each city named has a never ending growth with gridlock traffic. Joby will work in all types of scenarios. Delta airlines/JOBY are working together in the future to bring customers directly to the airport, then fly wherever. Delta realizes JOBY is changing the game, save more time for fun/work vs wasting time driving in gridlock traffic. I agree, JOBY will be a great addition to Tourists, moving tourists or workers between islands for example:Belize, Hawaii, Vancouver island, Indonesia to name a few of the 1000's of tourists spots in the world where JOBY can be a vital transportation and learning tool.

You've missed out, PBS showed a documentary on The Future of Electric flight 3 years ago. I've followed JOBY since, actually i buy every time the stock goes under $4, no regrets.

However, the real fun is only starting, how to build 25, 50, and 100 JOBY's a year will be a monumental task. Main reason Toyota partnered early to help and refine the JOBY building process. Joby will need to build 1000's to crush the competition, who is late to the party, and/or years behind.

@@MC-yb5le do not doubt the power of scaled manufacturing with Toyota's expertise --- Joby definitely found the right partner

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Jane, get me outa this crazy thing!

I mean, this thing come easily just pull out of your garage and go.

I mean this thing could easily just pull out of your garage and go... 🙄

Our pleasure!

People ridicule when I say this is about to explode. Maybe they majored in physics or whatever but I'm telling you they are going to make this thing explode. They have tech you never heard of and this is obviously the plan.

Bad comparison with the HF reference. Surprised you didn’t bring up John Denver too :(

@@blueman5924 Don't know him, but he does fit better as a comparison opon a quick look. I'll admit I want one of these too. But just because I want something doesn't mean I should have it, and a low barrier to entry flying machine is one of them. At least paragliders won't cause as much damage as a small plane.

They are planning for it to become autonomous at some point in the future to make it cheaper and more accessible without causing those problems. Autonomous flight with predefined paths and landing points would probably be easier to develop than autonomous driving, since the sky is much more spacious than streets, there aren't any level cross-roads or t-junctions in the sky, and cyclists/pedestrians won't appear out of nowhere. Still won't be anywhere comparable to today's wide spread of actual cars, just more common than today's helicopters and small planes.

How about self driven planes? Oh, yeah!

@@Chedring Low barrier? This thing is not cheap. Cutting edge technology rarely is. And remember that this is a plane and planes have a ton of paper work attached to them. It isn't like throwing together a Tesla car.

If. it is we're going to need a LOT bigger parking lots.

@Miraak Imagine trying to get that thing into multi-level parking!

From what I see, seems that's not (yet) part of the design.

Actually, what you suggest is the very rare case the concept seems viable, economically and in terms of realism, as a quieter successor to helicopters. We need the practicallity of helicopters, but going electric drones-like crafts comes at a risk yet to be solved : assymetric lift => total loss of control. If they are reliable enough (statistics) or we come up with some sort of compromise (like trade payload for redundancy or safety equipment), then having qualified pilots manning them is acceptable (not the lambda anyone casually flying and encoutering a flock of birds, not trained enough to react on the spot).