this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2023
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This will never make it off the ground. The FAA is going to put extreme restrictions on this, like you can't fly the car in populated areas or you have designated zones where you're allowed to take off. And that's if they ever actually make it to real production. This honestly seems like the kind of thing that exists for a team to put together a prototype, absorb a ludicrous amount of venture capital for how likely it is for this to actually come to fruition, sell the company as quickly as possible to Google or Tesla for even more money, and then have the company that bought them realize they fell for a "cat in the bag" scam and then kill the project almost immediately after they realize that at no point was this ever going to resolve into a marketable product, since the things are almost certainly total deathtraps that not even your more suicidal brand of rich imbecile would go near.