Please observe that ALL flying car videos play background music so you don't hear how loud and obnoxious they are. Imagine hundreds of these flying over your home all the time.
China, rightly or wrongly, is ok with making mistakes. Their solution to affordable housing was to overbuild high rise condos. Oppps. But they do accelerate the time to adoption. China can build an entire city in the time it takes LosAngeles to approve the archetual plans for a single building.
And in the event of a malfunction or lets say, EMP/solar flare/etc all motors cut and person pulls the manual parachute deploy to carry the vehicle quietly to ground?
24:48 "The background noise level in cities is 65db." We all know that cities aren't equally loud everywhere. Many people have their quiet places. Like a walled off garden. Some kind of protected area. Even if it's a public space. This is why I think that people will only accept it, if it will actually be quiet. 45db is not quiet. In particular once you realize how many places this sound reaches. Personally, I'm rather sceptical that the first generation will not have many opponents because of that.
@@bigbobabc123 Angry is the wrong word. But it can interrupt me relaxing or trying to take a nap. At least with helicopters there are so few that I know that it will probably be gone for a while when it happens.
@@AlexanderBrueck Yes I did and yes I know. What you are ignoring is that noise perception is relative. If you live in a quiet area, or have a quiet place, then even a low noise level can be perceived. Just take a look at the PC hardware community and their obsession with fan noise. They don't stop at 45db. They go way further down. And not because they'd imagine it. But rather because PCs are often used in quiet places, such that even 30db can be perceived as too loud. Personally I run a PC with Noctua fans, running at a lower voltage. About in the 20db range. And I still could live with a lot less. Don't get me wrong. I've lived near a loud street. Of course closed windows make a huge difference. But in the end this kind of background noise is scientifically proven to be bad for your mental wellbeing, stress level and in the end your health.
Why are any of these options better than Blade? Seems like main roadmap for these guys is to create fix routes to avoid traffic, especially starting to/from airports. Blade already did that.
The tech potential is proven. They are quieter, safer and potentially even cheaper than trad copters. The key challenge to me is around VTOL pads and trained pilots. Those are going to be constraining variables, not the Evtols themselves
These will never be certified by the FAA. Part 135 (Charter for Hire) requires an aircraft have enough fuel to fly to the destination airport, then to an alternate airport, and for an additional 45 minutes of flight time. Present battery tech lacks the energy density to make this happen.
@@paulo7200 PR available on the Joby site for the 523 mile flight (Jul 11, 2024) , along with the FAA Part 135 certification (May 26, 2022) - google it
Those 135 rules will be amended for this new industry. Those rules were written for fixed-wing aircraft that might need to find a distant runway with better weather. eVTOLs can land in a vacant lot. The FAA can be flexible. Who would have foreseen 135 operators flying single-engine airplanes, inter-island in Hawaii??! I still cannot believe it.
I spoke to the CEO/owner of another Competing eVTOL OEM a few months back and he said that Joby is too big to fail. That is what the FAA indicates. It will be certified. And you will lose out if you are not invested right now. Good luck
So these "aircraft" have a total range of 50 minutes. If they intend on carrying passengers under current FAA rules you need enough juice to get to an alternate plus 45 minutes of reserve. So according to my math they would only be able to travel for about 10 miles. I am not sure how this will ever work in the United States. I am assuming they would operate under IFR as part 14 CFR Part 135 rules.
The video discusses the future of electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, featuring representatives from Joby, Archer, and Wisk. They cover topics including safety, regulatory challenges, noise reduction, autonomous flight, and timelines for commercial availability.
21:38 - here is the first the they mention "redundancies". This means that these craft are orders of magnitude safer by design. There are multiple points of failure required for a catastrophic event. So say an aircraft has six rotors. He says that each rotor has its own inverter and battery pack. So if one rotor goes out, or one inverter blows a fuse or battery pack fails, it can still fly. Some online state that even if two fail it could still fly. Also with the multiple rotors, it's easier to escape a possible problem inherent with rotors called Vortex Ring State (at 24:00). So even this issue is apparently addressed with the redundancies (also as they mention with techniques that can break this not available with a conventional helicopter).
You are most certainly are NOT guaranteed to fear new technology if you don’t come from an industry but regulate it. Industry can use consultants with regulators. Rare Friedberg L.
I can’t wait while I need SNAP to afford groceries…. Thank for solving our concerns in society. Why didn’t you answer Friedbergs question?🤨 You danced around an important question. 🧐
Why? These could stay in a lower airspace while other major commercial stay in higher airspace until they need to get into the pattern at an airport which these wouldn't be near.
Why do these things have to be electric? Is that part of keeping the noise down? Feels like not using some kind of fossil fuel based energy source severely limits the range on these things. Disclaimer I don't really know much about the science here and just have a preconceived idea in my head that, even now, you still get quite a bit more energy out of a fossil fuel engine than from a comparably weighted battery
Autonomous one are like Venmo . The pilot / driver lives in India or Bangladesh 😁Venmo has more operators than their car. However it is cheaper and also you can say it is autonomous 😁😂No one ask these questions from these companies cause they are directly or indirect investors or they don’t want to go after bigger investors. 😂😅
😢😢 look at the current stats. How many cars crash into houses versus how many planes crash into houses or helicopters? And because the data is going to be skewed, because of less aircraft, you need to look at it at the same interval rate like 1 per 1000. What you're talking about is not a problem. It's an irrational fear
Why are we so obsessed with technologies of the 2200s. Why is fixing our current critical issues not considered sexy. We’re lagging behind on infrastructure, education, insurance, healthcare and others too am pretty sure. Why don’t you bring guests that are less popular but are solving real problems
Highly regulated by government + regulatory capture, and politics makes it super hard to fix. But we still need people to be obsessed with future technologies thats what got us here in the first place!
The incumbents don't want these boring problems solved. They are profitable problems and existing players have effective control over legal and regulatory barriers.
There really are different dynamics with different types of problems. Give it a different think, and you might understand why we can produce quality food in abundance, but people will simply eat junk.. or why cars allow us unprecedented freedom, but some people are terrible drivers, and some even cause accidents with drugs and alcohol. Some think that everybody should live in a dense city and ride trains. Lots of low res thinking.
Oh yeah, like 'driverless' cars I guess, or Musk's amazing 'underground railway' of which they've done about 4km... YOU GUYS ARE A FLIPPING JOKE!!! 🤪😂😂
Planes can’t land without runways which are large Evtols can takeoff and land anywhere which saves on land and infrastructure saving millions Evtols are also less expensive
$5,000 an hour for a helicopter. $500 per hour for a eVTOL. Air mobility just went from the 1% to the top 10%. Henry Ford’s first million cars did not go to the middle class. Only IBM could afford an early computer. Pan Am was mainly for the rich….now we have JetBlue and Spirit available for anyone with $200. Embrace the tech even if currently it doesn’t benefit you.
@@eden5260 Uber offers a lower rate if you share a ride. Full price if you want the car to yourself. Does Delta Airlines offer you the entire airplane? Only if you buy all the seats!
No they havnt….flying cars are just helicopters and now these EVTALs. Flying cars are only in the way people dreamed of are ones that fly one minute and are driving on roads the next. That’s never happening due to airspace and road laws and regulations….however helicopters and these are as close are you will ever get and they have been around for decades. So stop with this flying cars none-sense, helicopters have existed forever
Sure they are basically helicopters but significantly better! Think of Evtols as a helicopter 2.0 Evtols make significantly less noise which will allow them to operate closer to cities without disturbing Evtols can be autonomous which is safe and saves cost on pilots Evtols are less expensive to build operate and on maintenance cost significant cost savings Evtols are far more safer then helicopters because evtols have multiple points of failure and multiple redundant systems Evtols have multiple propellers with separate batteries systems compared to helicopters one engine one fuel source Evtols are the future period
How much will it cost to hire a helicopter for 15 -30 min Vs this ? That should be the major difference. The other is station. Helicopters can only land in specific locations If this can't change that it is going to fail
You don’t care about Gulfstream either then. But their airplanes are selling like hot cakes and the company is the largest employer in Savannah. Archer is building a massive factory in Georgia. These companies provide employment and add to national GDP.
It's laughable and sad that people believe that if something is too expensive for them, it doesn't affect them, or they shouldn't care. Every novel idea starts off as expensive. Look at every electric car company - they always start with the flagship model (Tesla w/ the Roadster, Rivian w/ the R1T/S, Lucid, etc). Or even look at the first "normal" car, the Ford Model T. That started at $850 in 1908, $29k in today's money. Or even the Edison's first light bulb which was $1 in 1881 or over $30 today.
Point is, you should care because eventually, every company that successfully makes the "expensive thing," will begin producing it for less and less money until it reaches mass market.
@@tz6516 Every company provides employment and contributes to GDP. This argument just distracts from what i said. Same way as this tech direction may move technology ahead but do not contribute or address the needs of society.
The big elephant in the room….safety wise flying with strangers who has a panic attack or goes rogue during the flight…unclips the seat belt….no Marshall onboard….that is no go for me! Why don’t they address this?
@@tz6516 not paranoid but to think air flight will have people calm just look at the increase of Marshall intervention on regular planes…but I think as a solution if you could lock people in permanently in their seats during the flight like a roller coaster I’d fly. Btw one of the vtols do have a pilot onboard. Just saying…fwiw
This panel on eVTOLs got my attention. The fact that companies like Archer, Joby, and Wisk are so close to bringing electric air taxis to market is wild. For someone who’s all about finding efficient ways to work and live, the idea of cutting through city congestion with this tech is game-changing. I’m also interested in how they’re handling the regulatory side, especially in the U.S. where it’s always a slow grind. But seeing places like New Zealand adapting quicker gives me hope this could scale up sooner than we think. If they hit their target for a 2026 launch, we’re looking at a real shift in how cities move people around. Feels like we’re finally on the edge of something big with urban transport.🥷
