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[–] MaxAncap ago 

We've had helicopters forever. If one knows how to fly a helicopter, why would he get this instead? (helicopter= more range)

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[–] bluefascist ago 

They showed how simplified the controls are.

Up/down, rotate, and pitch. Other than that it's automated.

A helicopter is much more difficult to fly.

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[–] MaxAncap ago 

yeah why can't you just plug a gamepad into your helicopters!

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[–] 7e62ce85 [S] ago 

Ease of use and possibly cheaper and less maintenance. Flying helicopters is hard and they crash relatively often.

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[–] MaxAncap ago 

What's the range?

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[–] 7e62ce85 [S] ago 

About 16 km going back and forth. 32 km one-way (you could charge while working)

The German Lillium car can supposedly travel 300 km one way at 300 km/h - because it has small wings unlike this drone.

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[–] DayWalker ago 

So it's a drone-car

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[–] goatsandbros ago  (edited ago)

>no take off footage

>grows 4 extra rotor sets, half way through footage

>China

Not at all suspicious.

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[–] 7e62ce85 [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

There is a take off segment in the video. Don't be such a negative person.

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[–] TheBuddha ago 

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[–] varialus 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Prototype flying cars have existed for ages. The problem is that nothing will be suitable until artificial intelligence matures. The public can't be trusted en masse to fly with current technology; it's just too dangerous for now.

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[–] 7e62ce85 [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Well if that is your concern this thing can supposedly navigate using google maps and fly itself to your location.

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[–] bluefascist ago 

It's the automated collision detection, avoidance, and crash decision triage that people are not through yet.

Setting a drone on gps waypoints is easy.

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[–] 11844747? 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Now they just need to connect it up to the Net and them things will be falling out of the sky. -but honestly I think it's cool af!

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[–] albatrosv15 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Correction: multirotor helicopter.

The best propaganda piece i saw today, folks.

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