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Posted on 06/06/2018 10:47:16 AM PDT by Red Badger
It's as easy to use as playing Minecraft," Kitty Hawk CEO Sebastian Thrun said as we watched my colleague Rachel Crane pull on a motorcycle helmet.
Rachel and I had just flown into Las Vegas for an exclusive first look at the Silicon Valley single-seat flying machine, Flyer.
Kitty Hawk, funded by Google cofounder Larry Page and led by Thrun, a self-driving car pioneer, attracted nationwide attention when it teased its Flyer prototype last year.
But now Rachel was suiting up to become the first reporter to take flight in a new, sleeker model -- no pilot license required. Expectedly, she was nervous and I was relieved it wasn't me sitting in the pilot's seat. The 250-pound vehicle resembles a cross between a drone and a pontoon plane. Ten propellers twirled around her as I watched from 50 feet away.
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Maybe CNN can fly to Mars and stay there..permanently
How cool is that!?
Gee, that’s great guys...you built a scaled up toy drone.
Real innovative.
Should be no problem to certificate.
Chortle.
Great video. What a blast! I wonder what OS they are using to control this thing? I sure would’t want to trust Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android or IOS. Maybe the old Wind River RTOS (now Wind VxWorks, part of Intel). There may be only 11 classical moving parts, but there is a lot of risk in the OS crashing and bringing down the craft.
It appears to be a flying boat, not a flying car.
CPM..................
Near, far, in our motor car
Oh! What a happy time we’ll spend.
Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Our fine four fendered friend.
It’s no CCBB.
First, see if putting drones in the hands of the uneducated mass of the public was a good idea.
OK, so in spite of that, you are going to put people in flying cars.
I wish I could throat-punch every writer that goes this goofy BS “flying cars”.
After decades they keep classifying these obviously NOT flying cars as one.
Scaramanga had his flying car too.
Flying Boat!.................
Interesting you mention a Bond character given who wrote CCBB :-)
I never cared for CCBB.
Golden Gun was tolerable.
It’s certainly an aircraft, but without wheels, I don’t see how it can be a flying car.
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