Inside Alef, the company trying to build a car you can both drive and fly

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  • Опубликовано: 28 окт 2024

Комментарии • 101

  • @mistermind8170
    @mistermind8170 6 месяцев назад +68

    This will be another Theranos .

  • @Daniel-es2qy
    @Daniel-es2qy 6 месяцев назад +65

    To quote Neil deGrasse Tyson, "we already have flying cars, they're called helicopters."

    • @redbean9410
      @redbean9410 6 месяцев назад +11

      thats not a car it can't drive on the roads. NDT isn't as smart or witty as he thinks he is

    • @abdullahpatel6086
      @abdullahpatel6086 6 месяцев назад +4

      @@redbean9410I think that he was just highlighting the fact that we don’t need cars. Of course he knows that helicopter s are not cars.

    • @aikibaby
      @aikibaby 5 месяцев назад +1

      If it can take off and land vertically, why would you want to drive it on the ground? A car makes a terrible airplane and an airplane makes a terrible car. A VTOL car that lands in a parking space is the actual meaning of “flying car.” It means NO DRIVING.

    • @neomcdoom
      @neomcdoom Месяц назад +1

      That’s maybe the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard Neil degrasse Tyson say, which is saying a lot

  • @moon3173
    @moon3173 6 месяцев назад +14

    if a startup can't make it happen in 10yrs, they almost never will

  • @rq3849
    @rq3849 6 месяцев назад +46

    Most people can barely drive, let alone fly.

    • @dontbanmebrodontbanme5403
      @dontbanmebrodontbanme5403 6 месяцев назад +6

      Ideally, you'd just be a passenger and computers would take over. That's not the biggest hurdle to overcome. The biggest hurdle, at least in my eyes, is what's powering something that's going to lift two people plus a car in the air?

    • @Betweoxwitegan
      @Betweoxwitegan 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@dontbanmebrodontbanme5403This whole idea is a joke, this company is going to go bust no doubt. They will not get approval, the design, vehicle and concept itself is a joke. We need less cars, not flying cars FFS. They built an inefficient vehicle and are branding it to rich elitists to equate status, much like a cybertruck.

    • @mahbubhossainsamm
      @mahbubhossainsamm 3 месяца назад

      @@dontbanmebrodontbanme5403True.. hopefully, with the help of AI we will get heavy energy densely batteries pretty soon.

    • @dansin444
      @dansin444 2 месяца назад

      New tech is expensive. Besides as you mentioned it will need pilot and central control.

  • @happyboss555
    @happyboss555 6 месяцев назад +10

    I love their fund-raising capability

  • @SuperRobertoClemente
    @SuperRobertoClemente 6 месяцев назад +11

    I am not believing a word of what this guy says until I see that thing actually move. They're not going to get a cent from investors with a report like this-- if that car could drive or fly, they would show the damn reporter!

  • @johnjakson444
    @johnjakson444 6 месяцев назад +37

    utter load of bollux journalism

    • @DK-mt1xw
      @DK-mt1xw Месяц назад

      Puff piece, not journalism.

  • @EngineerCatPyro
    @EngineerCatPyro Месяц назад +2

    Haven't found a single video of this thing actually flying. NEXT.....

  • @jimmydishkawnt
    @jimmydishkawnt 6 месяцев назад +20

    They look like a 'fly by night' kind of operation 😅

  • @User_uxetsht
    @User_uxetsht 6 месяцев назад +16

    One question they can never explain is where are they going to put the battery ?

  • @Native722
    @Native722 4 месяца назад +4

    We need a demo soon here, otherwise maybe a scam.

  • @anthonyjones7264
    @anthonyjones7264 6 месяцев назад +3

    The fact that people dont understand we already have flying cars. Shows that people dont know what a flying car actually is. They keep assuming ot should go from driving to flying but thats not really the case. In the Jetsons the ONLY time you see the car driving is when it lands or takes off. When they drive it its actually being flown.

  • @sammytheface8821
    @sammytheface8821 2 месяца назад +1

    I can see exactly how it would work...BRILLIANT, blades not exposed, and the swivel cockpit, to transit
    from vertical to horizontal flight. like a bi-plane, in horizontal flight...and best of all, fitting into a single car garage, (which most flying cars can't do) I have drawn 1000's of flying car concepts, being a former pilot,
    I do see how this design could be improved....a lot. Think.... ahead a few generations.

  • @scientificapproach6578
    @scientificapproach6578 6 месяцев назад +6

    This is a scam to get investor money. The core design will not fly, those vents make very poor wings.
    "This is way safer", really and how would you know that when its never flown.

  • @_Digitalguy
    @_Digitalguy 6 месяцев назад +8

    This is not going to work for private use, not in our lifetime, and not so much because of technology but because of regulation. it's not just the fact that drivers should be licenced as pilots too, but that regulation will not allow taking off or landing anywhere, so the apparent convenience of this vs an elicopter is questionable, especially as this will also have disadvantages vs an elicopter in terms of fuel quantity etc. (so only short trips). I can only see this as niche corpotate vehicoles talking off and landing as specific locations , for short distances and being able to drive when needed in certain places where you cannot land or take off.

    • @AyedYoutube
      @AyedYoutube 6 месяцев назад +1

      imagine working in a high rise building in an era of drunk drivers on flying cars

    • @dontbanmebrodontbanme5403
      @dontbanmebrodontbanme5403 6 месяцев назад +2

      The solution to what you're saying is simple: we wouldn't be driving/flying them, a computer would. Imagine a network of flying cars, all talking to each other. Now, of course, I can also imagine someone hacking into the system and getting thousands of flying cars to crash into each other, but let's just ignore that possibility! 😂😂😂 In a world where computers are flying us around, we wouldn't have to worry about us crashing. It's honestly the only way this could even be feasible.

  • @CreatingCreations
    @CreatingCreations 6 месяцев назад +5

    Those guys are either really bad at communicating or really bad engineers. I don’t think they understand what they are making 😂

  • @jbridgepro6962
    @jbridgepro6962 6 месяцев назад +4

    Talk about missed opportunity. This should have been posted on April 1st. Would've made more sense 😅...

  • @dontbanmebrodontbanme5403
    @dontbanmebrodontbanme5403 6 месяцев назад +2

    The biggest issue I see with this ever becoming a reality is, what's going to power it. Lifting two people, plus the car itself in the air TAKES A TON OF ENERGY!!! Batteries simply don't have the density needed to make this feasible. You'd have to keep adding more batteries, which makes it heavier, requiring more batteries and you're caught in a vicious cycle. Either we find a way for batteries to hold 10 times the amount of energy they currently can or it's just not feasible.
    The other options are jet fuel and nuclear power. Honestly, jet fuel seems to most feasible. I mean, we already use it for helicopters. It's tech already being used. Nuclear clearly has enough power, but do we really want to deal with two flying cars powered by nuclear batteries crashing into each other?
    We need a major, MAJOR energy advancement before something like a flying car will be in everyone's garage. You basically need nuclear power without the issues that arise if two nuclear powered cars crash into each other.

  • @lburg3780
    @lburg3780 4 месяца назад +1

    Any actual videos of this thing lifting off the ground???

  • @DK-mt1xw
    @DK-mt1xw Месяц назад

    I can see this a great way to travel! Mass produce to lower price, increase range and this could be amazing!

  • @dwnrange7812
    @dwnrange7812 6 месяцев назад +1

    They never show this thing actually flying, or driving for that matter. And people think this actually works??!!

  • @y_i_fly6256
    @y_i_fly6256 28 дней назад

    What about the effects of weather? High winds, downdraft’s, snow and ice. All of these have an effect of aircraft performance and safety.

  • @stickynorth
    @stickynorth 6 месяцев назад +1

    Way to drop the Theranos name like a bucket of cold water on this fever dream project...

  • @tetzet3254
    @tetzet3254 6 месяцев назад +2

    It actually works when you dreaming inside the car

  • @EdwardChew
    @EdwardChew 6 месяцев назад +3

    How the 2 guys answered the lady's question and when he showed it flying sideways... screams sxxm 😂😂😂 this is not gonna work!

  • @chris12321222
    @chris12321222 6 месяцев назад +2

    Great, now I have to deal with the DMV and the FAA

  • @DRG342
    @DRG342 Месяц назад

    Forget it! The last thing we need is a guy leaving a bar and getting into a flying projectile after have a few drinks.

  • @MarkusSchleewand
    @MarkusSchleewand 6 месяцев назад +1

    So it's a quadcopter that looks like a car?

  • @glennalexon1530
    @glennalexon1530 6 месяцев назад +1

    Even if it could fly, it wouldn’t be a car. Three-wheelers are motorcycles. Read a book.

  • @ih8temoney
    @ih8temoney 6 месяцев назад

    If there were thousands, even millions different flying cars with different characteristics, wouldn't there be a major issue with vortices, coming off one craft and reacting with another craft in a negative way. Vortices can effect Helicopter when landing and other aircraft causing fatal accidents.

  • @hartmetall515
    @hartmetall515 6 месяцев назад

    It may be technically possible,but people need to understand that creating vertical thrust is extremely inefficient energywise

  • @theotheleo6830
    @theotheleo6830 Месяц назад

    So far, they've managed to develop an empty shell. Awesome!

  • @NnaemekaAmamasi
    @NnaemekaAmamasi 6 месяцев назад

    My company is sueing me for this presentation, since the 'car' was never actually airborne!

  • @sojourner4726
    @sojourner4726 Месяц назад

    They already have flying cars in china they just don’t have a “car” like guard cage. I think delivery started last month.

  • @throwawaydude3470
    @throwawaydude3470 6 месяцев назад +1

    Flying cars would have saved Bin Laden from having to go through TSA

    • @agharta42
      @agharta42 4 месяца назад

      The CEO guy in the video is actually bin laden he had facial reconstructive surgery obviously

  • @CK-wo1ly
    @CK-wo1ly 6 месяцев назад

    They couldn't even show it driving?

  • @tiramisu8359
    @tiramisu8359 6 месяцев назад +1

    holy, this guy epitome of rubbing hand juice lmao.

  • @TheBestDealsIl
    @TheBestDealsIl 6 месяцев назад

    I sew a different interview were he explains exactly how it will work.

  • @phd8296
    @phd8296 6 месяцев назад

    I feel design wise, they trying to make it look like a car, even though it might make no sense to go this route.

  • @anderbeau
    @anderbeau 6 месяцев назад

    I don’t think drones carrying people is too far off 👍🏼

  • @kennylee7962
    @kennylee7962 6 месяцев назад +1

    300k, nothing inside but the air, no answer how it works, hand made in garage. Something that levitates people to the air is hand..made…

  • @kenyup7936
    @kenyup7936 6 месяцев назад +1

    because they didnt show us how it can fly, that's why I don't trust it,im not sure if it's a joke or prank or something

  • @eugp4198
    @eugp4198 6 месяцев назад +1

    Not that optimistic about this kind of product, especially if the business can't be scaled to a wider market

  • @ruzzelladrian907
    @ruzzelladrian907 6 месяцев назад

    Flying cars? Will do anything but public transportation like MRT and high speed rail.

  • @davescom
    @davescom 3 дня назад

    Pre orders for a "flying car" that you never seen fly for 8 years of development. How could people believe this scam?

  • @vexkiddy
    @vexkiddy 6 месяцев назад +1

    It looks like the 60s bat mobile

  • @sushilskolia
    @sushilskolia 6 месяцев назад +1

    no actual flying just theory

  • @henrykdoruch8056
    @henrykdoruch8056 4 месяца назад

    Why NOT a WHISPER AERO Fans ? ( 40 dB Noise !!!)

  • @sean-keithwelsh326
    @sean-keithwelsh326 6 месяцев назад +1

    This POS will never pass a crash test. Then how will it fly in the winter when it's covered in snow and ice?

  • @youtubeprofile2070
    @youtubeprofile2070 6 месяцев назад +4

    These guys don't inspire confidence. To me they sound like they don't really know how to make it work. 😅

    • @cnicetune11
      @cnicetune11 6 месяцев назад +1

      They look like a bunch of kids tinkering with electronics.

  • @AnthonyDDean
    @AnthonyDDean Месяц назад

    FAA restrictions will kill revenue. Not safer than a plane, there is zero lift if a lift fan goes out. Also the electronics and wire harnesses cannot be made just to auto standards, it must all be aerospace certified.

  • @yongchen8204
    @yongchen8204 6 месяцев назад +1

    what if it is falling off sky or people privacy are in peril. flying car is being around ages., it will not go to happen. we have drone delivery goods bussiness model for 10 years now, yet its bussiness concept has never taken off for the same reason. overcrowding the sky put everyone at risk at the for profit and hobby of the greedy investors and their customers. $300,000 USD per flying car, most working class people cant afford for such expensive toy.

  • @ovidiuc4
    @ovidiuc4 6 месяцев назад

    Even if this thing would work (obviously it doesn't), driving on those "cool" wheelbarrow wheels is ridiculous.

  • @ninetr3333
    @ninetr3333 Месяц назад

    This guy wouldn't go anywhere but only in his Worksop till the end. 🤷‍♂️

  • @cnicetune11
    @cnicetune11 6 месяцев назад

    Less traffic when we all start flying? Probably more deaths more likely. Logistically, how do we all just start flying from different routes? Imagine a million personal planes going to work each day. We will get there but still a long way out from all of us having access to this technology.

  • @ckmulisha
    @ckmulisha Месяц назад

    That's a lot of "if"... Making the comparison that his "concept idea" is "way safer" than any traditional aircraft today is ridiculous. I need to see some statistics. On second thought, he is correct because this doesn't exist, 100% safer!

  • @KingAlphaOmega
    @KingAlphaOmega 6 месяцев назад +3

    Funny design to hide fans in it
    What a scammer lol

  • @jovani6044
    @jovani6044 6 месяцев назад

    This guy sounds like Gru

  • @deadwingdomain
    @deadwingdomain Месяц назад

    This "car" will not drive down a road. Let alone fly. It looks like a kite.

  • @Ella.-.280
    @Ella.-.280 Месяц назад

    So do you have to have a drivers license and an air license😂

  • @mattsteve7229
    @mattsteve7229 6 месяцев назад +1

    So far, it's just a ponitless box that can't fly yet and is taking longer to produce. Show evidence of it flying and what it can do. Otherwise your nothing but talk

  • @fabiofunghetti2427
    @fabiofunghetti2427 Месяц назад

    Olha o tipo do carro voador que apresentam kkkk
    Com ventilador
    Vamos se respeitar

  • @anderbeau
    @anderbeau 6 месяцев назад

    The front kinda looks like a Tesla model 3 😂

  • @IndhanBanshal
    @IndhanBanshal 4 месяца назад

    This project is worth of money

  • @moon3173
    @moon3173 6 месяцев назад +1

    just another zombicorn

  • @user-tx9zg5mz5p
    @user-tx9zg5mz5p 6 месяцев назад +3

    😂😂😂

  • @kasbas5922
    @kasbas5922 6 месяцев назад +2

    Cash grab ?!!!

  • @MJamilHoque
    @MJamilHoque 6 месяцев назад

    China and Japan are ahead.

  • @moon3173
    @moon3173 6 месяцев назад

    it's spelled ALEF, but pronounced THERANOS

  • @rally_furymoments5294
    @rally_furymoments5294 6 месяцев назад +4

    This is another Con Job 😹. Are u guys kidding?

  • @ryanstewart8890
    @ryanstewart8890 3 месяца назад

    Im not seeing the stars he's reaching for.

  • @warriors6565
    @warriors6565 3 месяца назад

    Theranos 2.0

  • @manoftomorrow5987
    @manoftomorrow5987 6 месяцев назад +1

    This will fail in a couple of years…smfh

  • @bigChrisWithAtinyPeice
    @bigChrisWithAtinyPeice Месяц назад

    It wont happen

  • @Hypocrites-507
    @Hypocrites-507 6 месяцев назад

    CNBC champion of human rights why don’t your station show ( end of serfdom in Tibet) in RUclips see how holi man Dalia Lama slave owner treated the serfs in Tibet

  • @spartan6931
    @spartan6931 6 месяцев назад +2

    Crap

  • @RazzakBospi
    @RazzakBospi 6 месяцев назад

    Auto electric helicopter car capacity drive in air earth to moon

  • @tellmemore8837
    @tellmemore8837 5 месяцев назад

    Got nowhere in 10 years.

  • @maxtubman6659
    @maxtubman6659 6 месяцев назад +1

    What a joke

  • @jayramirez4250
    @jayramirez4250 Месяц назад

    Ugly design.. humans should develop a real flying car that uses an anti-gravity tech, it would result to very low fuel consumption. Using drone like propeller eats up all the batteries and the visual aesthetic looks awful.

  • @domxgun
    @domxgun 6 месяцев назад +1

    Need underwater and naval capabilities also 🥱

  • @MEGALUNEITV
    @MEGALUNEITV 4 месяца назад

    Super WW...