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Silicon Valley startup lays off 100 employees, closes 3 locations (flying car)
SF Gate ^
| 10/3/2022
| By Amy Graff
Posted on 10/05/2022 2:05:10 PM PDT by NohSpinZone
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Oh well, maybe someday soon.
To: NohSpinZone
When you hitch your wagon to a company that plans to sell flying cars...
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posted on
10/05/2022 2:08:10 PM PDT
by
Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
To: NohSpinZone
At least their batteries won’t explode in midair now...
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posted on
10/05/2022 2:09:44 PM PDT
by
decal
(They won't stop, so they'll have to be stopped)
To: Magnum44
We old timers were promised flying cars by now....
Somebody lied.
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posted on
10/05/2022 2:09:53 PM PDT
by
cgbg
(Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
To: NohSpinZone
Not a flying car, an air taxi.
They were working on an electric aircraft that could take off and land vertically like a quad copter, fly horizontally like a conventional aircraft, and take passengers from point A to point B flying over the traffic.
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posted on
10/05/2022 2:10:39 PM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
To: NohSpinZone
Sounds like their business model was screwed up from the get-go. What did they need 3 different office locations for? That’s a lot of overhead
They should have kept it small and started in an airport hangar
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posted on
10/05/2022 2:11:55 PM PDT
by
shotgun
To: cgbg
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posted on
10/05/2022 2:12:10 PM PDT
by
Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
To: NohSpinZone
Damn I’ve always wanted a flying car like George Jetson, that would be so cool.
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posted on
10/05/2022 2:12:11 PM PDT
by
jimwatx
To: NohSpinZone
Owners probably sold their stock or pocketed the grant money, whichever applies.
Should have went with the Jetson design...
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posted on
10/05/2022 2:12:42 PM PDT
by
citizen
(Thieves of private property pass their lives in chains; thieves of public prop. in riches and luxury)
To: Magnum44
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posted on
10/05/2022 2:13:28 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: NohSpinZone
Not likely ever.
Most people are not able to think in terms of 3D, in terms of their spatiality at a proficient level to operate a flying car. They only way that a flying car could be made feasible, if brought down to affordability, is if it was completely automated.
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posted on
10/05/2022 2:16:28 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
(Some men want to see the world burn. It is they that want you to buy an electric car.)
To: Yo-Yo
For that sort of deal, they should have privately funded and designed a working prototype first. Make sure the damn thing would function areodynamically and automatically!
Then do a start-up.
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posted on
10/05/2022 2:17:22 PM PDT
by
citizen
(Thieves of private property pass their lives in chains; thieves of public prop. in riches and luxury)
To: NohSpinZone
To: citizen
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posted on
10/05/2022 2:18:46 PM PDT
by
citizen
(Thieves of private property pass their lives in chains; thieves of public prop. in riches and luxury)
To: Jonty30
Your post reminded me of this scene for some reason...
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posted on
10/05/2022 2:19:06 PM PDT
by
NohSpinZone
(First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
To: NohSpinZone
They couldn’t hire George Jetson?
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posted on
10/05/2022 2:19:18 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: cgbg
Living in the Future!
John Prine sang about it decades ago. From 1980.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ftvh9eWkAc
We are living in the future
I’ll tell you how I know
I read it in the paper
Fifteen years ago
We’re all driving rocket ships
And talking with our minds
And wearing turquoise jewelry
And standing in soup lines
We are standing in soup lines
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posted on
10/05/2022 2:21:33 PM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: Yo-Yo
“They were working on an electric aircraft...”
So it was a plan to bilk investors all along then.
To: FreedomPoster
While John was very much a Democrat, it’s interesting to note he wrote that (especially the soup lines part) after about 4 years of Jimmy Carter.
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posted on
10/05/2022 2:22:34 PM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: MikeyB806
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posted on
10/05/2022 2:28:56 PM PDT
by
citizen
(Thieves of private property pass their lives in chains; thieves of public prop. in riches and luxury)
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