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Post subject: Larry Page's Flying Taxis Posted: 13 Mar 2018, 08:04 |
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Joined: 08/14/10 Posts: 161 Post Likes: +28 Location: Austin, TX
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/12/business/dealbook/flying-taxis-larry-page.html"The company, known as Kitty Hawk and run by Sebastian Thrun, who helped start Google’s autonomous car unit as the director of Google X, has been testing a new kind of fully electric, self-piloting flying taxi." "The aircraft, known as Cora, has a wingspan of 36 feet with a dozen rotors all powered by batteries. It can fly about 62 miles and carry two passengers."
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Post subject: Re: Larry Page's Flying Taxis Posted: 04 Dec 2019, 08:59 |
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Joined: 11/07/11 Posts: 723 Post Likes: +412 Location: KBED, KCRE
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Username Protected wrote: We need to consolidate all these flying cars threads into one.
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Post subject: Re: Larry Page's Flying Taxis Posted: 05 Dec 2019, 08:02 |
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Joined: 06/02/10 Posts: 7255 Post Likes: +4525 Company: Inscrutable Fasteners, LLC Location: West Palm Beach - F45
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Username Protected wrote: A lot of tech companies are discovering that throwing tons of coders, flexible work spaces and free coffee at the problem cannot change the laws of physics. As one crusty old engineering professor once said “we obey the laws thermodynamics on this planet, son”
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