Short haul flights should probably be high speed train rides anyway
Comment on Electric Aviation is already better than you think - Volts with David Roberts
megopie@beehaw.org 4 months ago
I see a lot of potential for electric aircraft for short haul flights between regional airports, or for distribution of cargo between hubs, but not in any sort of dispersed capacity. Hub to warehouse cargo? Sure! Delivery to doorsteps or air taxi? hell no.
Anything that isn’t flying along a designate air route between already establish large volume facilities is just fundamentally impractical due to the safety issues with aircraft. No amount of new tech will solve how fundamentally dangerous a 4 ton hunk of metal going at 160MPH going anywhere but a designated route away from populated areas is.
lemming934@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
Dippy@beehaw.org 4 months ago
Oh yeah no. This guy has no dreams that don’t comply with the current FAA rules
flora_explora@beehaw.org 4 months ago
Yeah, especially since even self-driving cars prove to be a much bigger headache to accomplish than anticipated. If we cannot even figure those out in so many years, it will take even longer to add a whole other dimension to all the variability.