This thing is a game changer. My aunt is working in my country, but goes to the neighbour country every evening, because rents are crazy expensive. When she does, she must take her car and circle around the lake, that is making the physical border with our neighbour. This need one hour and a half of commute in each direction. She can take the boat, of course, but it's slow (40 minutes to cross) and only commutes one time very hour. With a jetson, she could directly fly from her job to her town at the other side of the lake. It would take her 10 minutes from door to door at 80 kph. Absolutely feasable.
I've never been much for patriotism but thinking that my little country is the birthplace to this, Koenigsegg, Volvo, Sabb, H&M, IKEA, Spotify and Nobel makes me kinda proud.
The main constructor of the device is a Pole, Tomasz Patan.Video was recorded in the Olkusz poviat, specifically in the Błędowska Desert Poland. The company was registered due to low tax and bureaucracy in Poland which would destroy the company at the very start.therefore, like them, I have a company in the UK
Battery technology is what it is now. Only improvements you can make now is to lose your own weight, reduce weight of the craft (for example molded CF frame and CF tubes instead of aluminium), use larger propellers with motors that run at lower RPM and add some aerodynamic shell, I believe cage designs like that are not very aerodynamic. And maybe add some fixed wing profile over the motor arms/tubes so they add a bit of extra lift when going forward. Lastly some premium battery pack upgrade, I'm guessing they didn't use state of the art batteries to reduce the cost, so if someone is willing to pay a bit extra they would get denser batteries and maybe a bit more of them (adding too much extra batteries has diminishing returns up to a point).
I have to respectfully disagree on the idea of making everyone a pilot for one of these I know a lot of people who have a hard time walking and chewing gum at the same time these people definitely don't even need to be behind the wheel of a car let alone in the air 🙄
Outside of limited 'pilot weight', price, assembly, pilots license, restricted to fly over populated areas, limited flying time, and maintenance... I'd say its perfect...
@@marklynch9527 - not for Real men either. I am 6'5. and 250 pounds, and not fat. You have to be a tiny little pansy man to fit in those things. This is how I know people that drive toyotas are tiny little pansy men. Even in their largest truck my knees are touching the dashboard - so I know if you drive a toyota your a tiny little waif.
Upgrade the battery when the technology improves, keep it spotless in a garage for 35 years, then you can fly it to classic quadcopter shows to flex on everyone. Like boomers at classic car shows in present day.
@@Rep0007 Better keep it period correct. If 20th century boomers have learned anything the hard way, "one of a kind corvette" means nothing and is worth nothing.
But not to start production and sales on minimal features. There have been assemble yourself copters for decades. This is really not much of a leap. It defrauds the idea behind the imagery of the Jetsons.
At almost $100k and 20 minutes of flight time it’s nothing more than a toy for the wealthy at this stage. Having said that, it’s a good start. At a quarter the price and 5 times the flight time it becomes pretty compelling as an actual useful transportation device, especially in the US since it would fall within the part 103 ultralight category which means no license required to fly. As is the case with anything electric, battery technology continues to be the limiting factor and will remain so for the foreseeable future I suspect. Oh, and while the parachute is a nice feel good item, at the altitudes they’re showing this thing flying at it would do no good whatsoever. It’d barely be out of the packing before craft met ground, HARD. I hope these guys (or someone with a similar idea) eventually succeed in building a mass market aircraft. Though when they do it’ll probably be fully autonomous which takes much of the thrill and enjoyment out of it. Time will tell.
My head cannot possibly wrap myself around how this fking ignorant people in the comments cannot see that this is going to revolutionise everything Finally a functional personal air transportation !! 20 minutes is more than enough for me to commute to work in a straight line Only the noise of the blades can be a show stoper, everything else is PERFECT
Don't forget it way to small for tall people. I live on the Continental divide at 8,500 feet in Winter Park Colorado. The average height for our population is almost 6'2 for men, and over 200 pounds, and no - our population is very fit. The thin air makes being fat very difficult - as in your daily life is very difficult, because the terrain is steep, and the air is super thin. Three flights of stairs is a marathon if your fat here. These things are an absolute joke for our average population. I also don't think they will fly very well with a waif of a man at this altitude, but may fly with different props at a reduced range. I find the idea amusing, but even if could fit in one I wouldn't fly that death trap. You lose one controller or motor, and your going down. Everybody will most certainly will need a parachute for any type of craft of that design. I have a drone that has 4 props, and it crashes all the time - mostly, because the parts are cheap chinese sht.
It looks nice design wise, but I am a bit concern with the safety of the pilot, because the propellers being so close to the cockpit...if it snaps, it wouldn't end so well to the pilot. Just my personal opinion
A bank will be quite reluctant to loan large sums of money to an applicant who cannot even spell. go back to middle school and this time pay attention,.
I feel like these don't make sense as taxis. Too much time to charge compared to the flight time. Plus there's no enclosure so it will be frequently grounded due to weather.
@@grogdocr ita not just that....What happens when your battery needs replacement? Will the dealership do that? Where will the battery come from? Do you have any idea what a battery alone will cost you? Aside from that....How long will it take to charge? And what if there is no charging facility where you land...Screwed.
They need to put concentration on weight constraints and the number of occupants. This vehicle is the next phase of transportation and I bet Elon is looking to either acquire it or compete. Jetson is on to something with the parachute but still needs to concentrate on the proximity of the blades to living organisms for safety. This is probably a problem because the vehicle needs blade angle rotation (vexing) for steering and if there are protective surfaces too close to the blades the operation of lifting and steering the vehicle will not work properly. I am a designer.
They should make the blades and supports (insofar as possible) transparent plastic. That way it looks like a Star Wars land speeder from a distance, just levitating along. Existing car radars can handle the auto-safety-warning feature ("DANGER! Step back! Rotor blades!").
The thing looks great, and I'd love to fly one. Not so sure it's a good idea for the masses, though, one inexperienced or road-raged driver and all the people standing on the corner are minced-meat.
The biggest disadvantage is that it is single seat. Eventually people will realize that owning such things without being able to share with friends/wife/children for a ride, makes it awkward to own and talk about them. I have a small single seat sailboat and know what I am talking about.
All of these flying cars are the same. Cool video with no sound. Just nice serene music. The truth is that the noise pollution put out by these things will make you deaf without hearing protection. Imagine your next door neighbor going to work at 5am every morning in one of those with all those propellers screaming up to lift off speed.
20mins battery life is useless. wont even be able to commute from home to work. way overpricerd for the components. Have to self assemble, no government is going to allow it to be used if people have to self assemble, besides them needing a pilots licence.
for USD 150 K you can buy a single seater Shark plane which can travel more than 1,000 miles at 108 knots, and you won't get wet if it rains. Compare this to Jetson's 20 mile range. But you do need a runway to land the Shark, so I guess this is the big advantage of Jetson.
$92,000 ? Way too much for the general public for a one man rig. I would pay up to 20k for something like this but anymore than that is too much. Hopefully when they become mainstream the prices will come way down like they did with led TVs. It would Shute cut down on commute time to work and traffic jams and safe from carjackings etc.
Until these can stay aloft for more than 20 minutes, they are mere toys. The technology to make them is already here. Only the power supply is holding them back. That, and the price.
I can see people putting this together and wondering what to do with the extra parts lol. 29 mins fly time wouldn't get me to store and back lol. Can you imagine people trying to fly this drone home from the bar on a Friday night. What's funny is most people couldn't fly it I would bet without crashing it and there is no do over lol
Neat but needs prop protectors or an enclosed cockpit... lf a prop comes apart or you nick something and fragment a prop you could potentially impale or decapitate yourself....for 92k you need more protection!
real ? Without fun...? maybe like a helicopter license. because if I were to fly it to my bottom, the authorities couldn't care less. come from Austria. And I have a feeling that this incredibly beautiful vehicle will cost about as much as a current VW
Nette Idee nur niemals für normale Menschen geeignet. Niemand darf so etwas in der Öffentlichkeit fliegen ohne Pilot. Zumindest nicht in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Wieder einmal nur ein Spielzeug für superreiche Großgrundbesitzer für die Gesetze sowieso nur "eine Grauzone" sind.
I hate to piss in your cornflakes, but I don’t see this ever getting big. Can you imagine the noise these things would create if you had say 1000, or 50,000 of these drone vehicles flying over your house? Not to mention that accidents would have catastrophic consequences for cities suburbs and towns.
@@technicalevo I'm not suggesting they can't deliver a good product. Just that the business model of producing flying cars is deeply flawed. Firstly, they could not produce more than a few thousand before they became a real nuisance just to have flying overhead. Just having hundreds of these vehicles fling overhead would be a safety hazard, to mention thousand or millions of them clogging up the skys. Secondly, piloting a helicopter takes many many hours of training and even then some inevitably crash. Think of having many thousands of flying car crashing into one another raining down debris all over the place. I don't think the public would tolerate it for very long.
very cool, but i am unsure what they are trying to achieve here...... this type of vehicle can simply not be some mainstream form of transportation because this thing can chop people apart. many people are not even capable of properly driving a car, let alone this thing......
For the wealthy; hop in and go from your driveway to the top of your office building in ten minutes instead of 30 minutes of traffic and smog. How liberating!
