Another pie in the sky idea with little or no chance of success. You cannot fill the skies over cities with more traffic. I won't fly in one because I will probably never see one.
They want investors money, after they pocket the money, they shut down the project, cant they just partner with helicopter manufacturers to add auto pilot?
@@licencetoswill it's not Google. It's a spinoff from a guy that worked at Google. So yea, they do. It's a grift like Boom/Overture/Lolifuckledoodledoo. They make a start up, get investors, take their cut, walk away from the explosion. Repeat.
@@kwv4865 It’s not for all regular people. It’s for people who are willing to pay a premium for a much shorter travel time. For example business people who normally would have to drive 2 hours instead can make it in only 30 min. With round trip it would save 3 hours. Time is money.
So,89 % percent of this country refuses to trust self driving cars but they are gonna trust a passenger drone? Some ppl overestimate Americans willingness to adopt the future.
People used to be terrified of automatic elevators too. That's why elevator music was invented, to mask the silence of not having a human elevator operator anymore. People got over it
As a powered lift instructor and Legacy carrier pilot, I Love the progress but, I’ve seen automation that, “won’t ever fail,” fail multiple times in different ways. Coming into an runway or LZ with VTOL landing dynamics I’ve also see overcome automation with environmental changes through the landing phase and aerodynamic transition. It’s still pretty early in this process to take pilots out of the equation. Ask any V-22 pilot out there.
That's essentially the basis for moving to electric. The manners in which electric systems can compensate and the degree of redundancy (without the substantial cost/complexity of turbines-as-propulsion or ICE) provides the framework for a far more reliable system. To claim that it's impervious to fault would be silly; however, this tech provides a monumentally safer foundation to build upon.
I can’t see this being a commercially viable solution, for the first decade or so of this technology it will still be cheaper to just charter a piloted helicopter. It’s cool but I just don’t see this as an option for regular people and it will be tough to get FAA approval in many cities
Hmm, seems interesting. My only concerns are already congestive air traffic, one person observing 10 aircraft. For emergencies, how fast would their response time be? 10 seems a bit much.
The supervisors mentioned in the video are merely observers able to take-control if something goes wrong. They could do far more than 10 once proven. The idea of a closed-loop system (such as aviation), you can implement new protocols between the aircraft. Combine that with the same type of pattern-recognition in autonomous-driving cars (albeit sensors both visual and longer-range) -- you have a two-part system that allows thousands of these to be in the same airspace without issue. Ultimately that is one of the key enablers required to make this practical. First you have electric propulsion which provides a tremendous flexibility/safety in this sort of design, second, you have the autonomous pattern-matching (ML/AI) combined with highly-accurate, long-range sensors and long-range wireless communication.
Most commercial aircraft fly above 3000 feet for there cruise usually higher , normal drones fly up to 500 feet . Wisk have designed there machine to cruise in the 1500 to 2500 feet airspace so exsiting air traffic should be a minimal program
I would love to do go on this no Traffic is the best and autonomous makes it even better , i was actually thinking of doing this but i guess i dont have to anymore so thanks!!!! FUTURE IS HERE!!!!!!!!
Don't forget rickshaws, cycle/scooter (even limo style versions for more occupancy), and other shared transportations, and water public transportation.
It will cheaper and reliable to win the trust and confidence of would be passengers if operated by a Pilot which is the only way to make it feasible. ❤️
@@morbidmanmusic This AI is completely reliant on instuments and sensors yet pilots can operate without them. One birdstrike is all it takes to send the plane down.
Planes with no pilots, one guys monitoring up to 10 aircraft at a time 😂 hope he’s not hung over or having a bad day!! This video made us laugh hysterically! Thanks for sharing and please don’t fly these anywhere near my house…lol
If you both saw how it was built , the people behind it and the tech they are using . You would rather get in a Wisk over of just about any other form of transport .
Talk to me about where any air travel like this actually happens. Autonomous or otherwise. This concept has been around for a while. Both Uber and Lyft had divisions for it. They both left the idea behind. Do you think they both dropped the idea (recently) because it’s so promising?
Their companies that only care about profit. If they're not set up to manufacture and develop these types of devices, what incentive would they possibly have to invest in development of a product such as this?
This needs to come to Pittsburgh since our transit organization won’t build rail between downtown to the airport. And, we’re getting a “new”, consolidated airport soon, so, it would be nice to have this.
Something that only carries 4 people at one time is not going to improve traffic. A small two car train can carry more than 3 busses worth of people. I have been on a 16 car Japanese Bullet train with 2000+ passengers onboard. Imagine how many of these human carrying drones will be needed to transport 2000 passengers. That’s a single train. One of those comes every half hour in Tokyo during peak hours.
Wisk is the future . I’ve seen this first hand and the tech and people behind this are amazing and I have not doubt they will be leading us one step closer to a really amazing future
Yes, and it doesn't hurt that Boeing has invested more than $700 million if I recall, plus one of the world's richest men (Larry Page) is also behind it!
Nice looks safe, a constant added remote monitoring of all systems and functions sent from the vehicles full self monitoring. Recording of all systems and actions for software recommendations and added software updates. All this will make shipping and transport affordable and sustainable and safe.
I am thankful that there are engineers tackling these complex problems. There are still many problems to overcome but just over 100 years ago people thought it was crazy to dream of flying at all. 3 cheers for the inventors and the innovators!
It is crazy to dream of flying, that is just a Hollywood CGI animation. Do you really think what you are seeing through those "windows" is real, they are just computer monitors.
It's feasible if they can really scale up the flights, and scale down the cost so regular people are able to use it. We already have helicopter transfer services (cost $800 to $1800) but those are for executives and wealthy people wanting to look cool. Those are in very specific locations where it makes sense with enough usage to remain in business transporting 1-8 people and some luggage. That also requires, like this, pads and landing rights which you can't just put anywhere. I wish them luck since a $36 quick ride from downtown Chicago to O'Hare would be welcome over driving or the train. But there are reasons there isn't common helicopter service now everywhere and even Wisk won't be as simple and cheap as car ride sharing getting home from the bar or football game. Not sure where they will be putting 5000 of these but it's nice to be hopeful.
A train ride from Schiphol Amsterdam airport to Amsterdam’s historic canal district is less then 15 minutes and very affordable. I think city planning has failed if there is a business case for air taxi’s. I think it’s a fun demo, but implies an apocalyptic vision of urban life in the future. 😢
I am not so worried about the autonomous flight, the bigger issues are landing sites in the city (remember PanAm in NYC) and cost. They gave a competitive cost per mile comparable to higher-end taxi/uber/limo, assuming there are no big initial and per-minute costs like in those.
Airports are well controlled, so taking off and coming to an airport can be automated. But taking the passengers to a city, you have so many variables including bird strikes, a child playing a ball game, some cheeky person doing electronic jamming, air space getting restricted due to vip movement are a few to mention which needs a human behind the machine to do make a decision there and then.
Pretty cool. But I doubt they'll be operational until UTM is in place, and we all know how long it takes FAA to implement anything. Good luck. Let's hope you fly soon.
There already exists a VTOL aircraft. It is called a HELICOPTER. The problem is not many of us can buy Helicopters like cars, because it is Expensive. If you can make a Helicopter Silent in a price range everyone can afford, say $20,000, we will see the concept of FLYING CARS become a reality. Until then, it's a work in progress.
@Will Swift Great point, but I'm talking about everyone affording a flying car. I wish in my lifetime; I could see flying cars pictured in Sci-fi movies; they're trying to make it, but there is still a long way ahead.
it'll be nice if given time and a good record it becomes accepted. but i could see any accident early on branding it "high wisk travel" 😀kinda hoping lighter than air craft passenger service will come back, but that seems like it might be a long time. 😞
I'm fully aware but thank you for the sly insult. Turning miles into minutes or vice versa doesn't increase the average person's income to be able to afford $450 - $900 per week to go to work.@David McCarthy
Noise pollution is a real concern with low flying vehicles, also in cities this would be a nightmare for the AI to avoid buildings and other unexpected tall structures, would only be a matter of time before a major incident. Nobody would or should trust these things until they're widely tested and rolled out incrementally
Why? We don't have automatic sliding doors even on the most advanced passenger jets. It probably makes sense to have a manual checkpoint for doors on flying machines.
Sweet, we can now fly cross country for the low cost of $6,000; green energy is SO good for the environment that we only had to use 18 coal plants to recharge the batteries that required 3,000 TONS of mining to make.
This is not going to improve traffic as they claim. It only carries 4 people at once. They would need 500 giant drones to carry the amount of people of a single 16 car train. I think eventually piloted turbine powered VTOLS will be come a viable alternative to helicopter travel (helicopters are hard to fly). Current battery tech has to vastly change as even regular drones can’t fly for much longer than 20 minutes. A giant drone with 4 people and small luggage probably can only fly for 10 minutes with current battery tech.
It's not an air taxi, it's an automated helicopter. It looks ridiculous and a massive health and safety hazard. It frustrates me that people are acting like these types of vehicles are offering anything new. Give us verticle take off, flying vehicles that don't have massive wingspans and exposed propellers. Only then will we have something truly revolutionary.
Please send a link to the more revolutionary VTOL aviation devices (which have been tested in-flight and able to sustain long distances autonomously while supporting the weight of the requisite on-board batteries) -- that you've been involved in creating. As an aside - wings are required to sustain reasonable distances despite the heavy weight of batteries. The distance/efficiency of a winged-aircraft is required for this model to succeed.
No it won't. Its already been talked about since 2015-2016 and it never manifested even until now. And that plane-helicopter-ish design is still the same ever since many years ago. Wide, big, impractical (only carry 4 passengers for that size) and non-compact design of the transportation. Bet the rotors also gonna be loud af. Good luck bringing that to the urban public
The math on this is just stupid, at $3 per mile, for a 25 mile flight it costs $75, or $120 to go 40 miles!! Is the average commuter going to pay this? What a dumb idea to bank on for the future. Improve mass transit - it'd be cheaper and more effective than this pipe dream waste of money and resources.
I can't believe there is a company willing to invest millions into this ridiculous idea. I have more hope for the cities to become so bike friendly that traffic will become less congested than I have hope for this ever actually taking off.
A transportation notion we are quickly needing to move away from is expending huge amounts of energy to move just a few people. This may be electric, but it still expands much more energy to take a few people from one point to another. Climate change isn't just forcing us to rethink where we get our energy from, but how much we expend on tasks. It's claimed this is a solution for congestion, but the future won't be in trying to avoid congestion, but in getting rid of it. The fact of the matter is our society is using outdated transportation ideas pushed on us by the auto and oil industries whose motivation was to create markets dependent on them. This lead to car culture, roads everywhere, and commutes into cities. Basically a life where being a pedestrian was extremely difficult and a bicyclist was dangerous. Instead of coming up with fantastical methods of travel and high tech solutions, we need to rethink our entire notion of transportation. Decentralizing away from city building is crucial. In a day and age of remote working, why have cities with huge commutes? So developers and commercial building owners can get rich? We also need to really move away from the idea of personal transportation and go back to the idea of public transportation. The old and auto industry made a concerted effort to kill such projects to force people to become dependent on cars. They've spent the last century fighting them and telling us through billions of dollars worth of advertising how we aren't practically human if we don't have a car. In the past they went as far as buying some public transportation systems to kill them. Just imagine what public transportation could be like if everyone put even half of what they paid in insurance, gas, loans, repairs, parking spots, etc for cars. Why doesn't north america have a robust high speed rail system, like pretty much everywhere else. We don't need fancy planes with questionable AI tech to fix outdated problems. We need to rethink everything we know about the society we live in. We need to stop coming up with ideas that expend more energy and come up with ways to reduce energy per task.
How exactly is this craft supposed to land to pick up passengers in any town or city due to its size? It's not very efficient or ideal to first travel to an open area while your in a major city, when all you want to do is get from one point to the next.
huge problems: 1) it's too big. 2) 10-15 min travel time is too limited. 3) We need a pilot, for safety and psychological reasons 4) The chair and cabin design feels cramped and uncomfortable.
This guy is dreaming, I don’t think anyone would buy into the idea that a city full of helicopters everywhere would be a better place to live than one full of cars. We tolerate the occasional helicopter passing by but can you imagine having hundreds of these things buzzing overhead constantly. I’m sure nobody wants a world like that.
Just give us affordable mass transit like high frequency trains please! None of this solves traffic for the most of us. It's fascinating, they are not even showing us these things flying. Just some cheap graphics.
I won't be first in line (I'm sure it'll be too expensive if/when that happens anyway) but assuming it doesn't (literally) crash and burn, I do like the idea
Seems about right to me since a Bell 206L isn't exactly small. But they have to work out how they power this and how fast they can turn it around, just like restaurant profitability depends on turning tables.
Thanks for watching! Now, the big question: Would YOU get inside an autonomous aircraft?
Absolutely No Way. Not anytime soon anyway. I think the founders are delusional that they will have the trust of people on such an early-stage tech.
Also, will autonomous craft even be allowed to fly by the FAA or other worldwide agencies? Certainly not in regulated regions of EU, or US.
Another pie in the sky idea with little or no chance of success. You cannot fill the skies over cities with more traffic. I won't fly in one because I will probably never see one.
Backup flying just in case.
@Will Swift Parker, whatever else you do, do not forget the foi gras and the Bollinger.
we have been hearing this "this could be your next uber"for more than 6 yrs now. Just release it and we will believe
They want investors money, after they pocket the money, they shut down the project, cant they just partner with helicopter manufacturers to add auto pilot?
Exactly. They couldn’t show CNET the actual flying vehicle?
@@JR.2024 boeing and google dont need your money.
@@licencetoswill it's not Google. It's a spinoff from a guy that worked at Google. So yea, they do. It's a grift like Boom/Overture/Lolifuckledoodledoo. They make a start up, get investors, take their cut, walk away from the explosion. Repeat.
strange that none of these videos let you hear how much noise it makes
Electric aircraft are silent
@@mitzikolo but giant propelers?
even it dnt fly 😂😂
The sound comes form the propellers. It’ll be extremely loud.
@@mitzikolo haha yeah! My r/c helicopter scares my neighbors!
I take it that people are gonna have to use ground transportation to get to Wisk station, before heading to wherever they’re going.
Now why would Wisk failed to mention the ground transportation costs to get to and from the Wisk location?
@@kwv4865 It’s not for all regular people. It’s for people who are willing to pay a premium for a much shorter travel time. For example business people who normally would have to drive 2 hours instead can make it in only 30 min. With round trip it would save 3 hours. Time is money.
So,89 % percent of this country refuses to trust self driving cars but they are gonna trust a passenger drone? Some ppl overestimate Americans willingness to adopt the future.
I'd never heard that statistic. I'm surprised, as most people I know would trust a self-driving car.
@@CBeckMayberry You must live in a bubble.
It's not called "adopting the future", it's called being "rational".
If 11% try it then monkey see, monkey do.
People used to be terrified of automatic elevators too. That's why elevator music was invented, to mask the silence of not having a human elevator operator anymore. People got over it
If it has a parachute safety system for the entire craft, sure.
It does
As a powered lift instructor and Legacy carrier pilot, I Love the progress but, I’ve seen automation that, “won’t ever fail,” fail multiple times in different ways. Coming into an runway or LZ with VTOL landing dynamics I’ve also see overcome automation with environmental changes through the landing phase and aerodynamic transition. It’s still pretty early in this process to take pilots out of the equation. Ask any V-22 pilot out there.
That's essentially the basis for moving to electric. The manners in which electric systems can compensate and the degree of redundancy (without the substantial cost/complexity of turbines-as-propulsion or ICE) provides the framework for a far more reliable system.
To claim that it's impervious to fault would be silly; however, this tech provides a monumentally safer foundation to build upon.
We are progressing into the AI age. Mind blowing things that were impossible are becoming possible.
I can’t see this being a commercially viable solution, for the first decade or so of this technology it will still be cheaper to just charter a piloted helicopter. It’s cool but I just don’t see this as an option for regular people and it will be tough to get FAA approval in many cities
No. Helicopters need aviation fuel and a highly skill pilot. Wisk would be much much cheaper.
Hmm, seems interesting. My only concerns are already congestive air traffic, one person observing 10 aircraft. For emergencies, how fast would their response time be? 10 seems a bit much.
The supervisors mentioned in the video are merely observers able to take-control if something goes wrong. They could do far more than 10 once proven.
The idea of a closed-loop system (such as aviation), you can implement new protocols between the aircraft. Combine that with the same type of pattern-recognition in autonomous-driving cars (albeit sensors both visual and longer-range) -- you have a two-part system that allows thousands of these to be in the same airspace without issue.
Ultimately that is one of the key enablers required to make this practical. First you have electric propulsion which provides a tremendous flexibility/safety in this sort of design, second, you have the autonomous pattern-matching (ML/AI) combined with highly-accurate, long-range sensors and long-range wireless communication.
Most commercial aircraft fly above 3000 feet for there cruise usually higher , normal drones fly up to 500 feet . Wisk have designed there machine to cruise in the 1500 to 2500 feet airspace so exsiting air traffic should be a minimal program
Without a doubt this will be fully computer automated/monitored eventually with AI. There won’t be many humans necessary.
I would love to see this as a shuttle flight from lets say JFK to the city. It would be a game changer for sure.
A giant drone 😳
Did he say the problems they are trying to solve are congested cities? LOL four passengers at a time. LOL
8:55 The fact that they are many here, is very promising
I would love to do go on this
no Traffic is the best and autonomous makes it even better , i was actually thinking of doing this but i guess i dont have to anymore so thanks!!!!
FUTURE IS HERE!!!!!!!!
All we need is a good public transportation system. Give us some trains, subways and enough buses and traffic is solved, FFS....
Buses are dangerous af mostly the people on board
Don't forget rickshaws, cycle/scooter (even limo style versions for more occupancy), and other shared transportations, and water public transportation.
It will cheaper and reliable to win the trust and confidence of would be passengers if
operated by a Pilot which is the only way to make it feasible. ❤️
You live to see how wrong you are.
@@morbidmanmusic This AI is completely reliant on instuments and sensors yet pilots can operate without them. One birdstrike is all it takes to send the plane down.
Superdrones can also deliver monthly or weekly supplies of groceries to homes deep in the wilderness.
Great just what we need, more noise inside cities. Notice all footage of the actual vehicle flying is muted.
Planes with no pilots, one guys monitoring up to 10 aircraft at a time 😂 hope he’s not hung over or having a bad day!! This video made us laugh hysterically! Thanks for sharing and please don’t fly these anywhere near my house…lol
😂
If you both saw how it was built , the people behind it and the tech they are using . You would rather get in a Wisk over of just about any other form of transport .
Your fear of the future combined with your ignorance is laughable.
That's pretty cool, but I'm curious about one thing. What happens if you need to use the bathroom during a flight?
4:19 NoHo Hank? Barry? I can't be the only one lol
Talk to me about where any air travel like this actually happens. Autonomous or otherwise.
This concept has been around for a while. Both Uber and Lyft had divisions for it. They both left the idea behind. Do you think they both dropped the idea (recently) because it’s so promising?
Their companies that only care about profit. If they're not set up to manufacture and develop these types of devices, what incentive would they possibly have to invest in development of a product such as this?
This needs to come to Pittsburgh since our transit organization won’t build rail between downtown to the airport. And, we’re getting a “new”, consolidated airport soon, so, it would be nice to have this.
It won't, not until 2040 IF its ready
Something that only carries 4 people at one time is not going to improve traffic. A small two car train can carry more than 3 busses worth of people. I have been on a 16 car Japanese Bullet train with 2000+ passengers onboard. Imagine how many of these human carrying drones will be needed to transport 2000 passengers. That’s a single train. One of those comes every half hour in Tokyo during peak hours.
Kensington Zombies will be the mechanics, huh?
Wisk is the future . I’ve seen this first hand and the tech and people behind this are amazing and I have not doubt they will be leading us one step closer to a really amazing future
Yes, and it doesn't hurt that Boeing has invested more than $700 million if I recall, plus one of the world's richest men (Larry Page) is also behind it!
A train also doesn’t get stuck in traffic and is not stupid
A train can only go where the tracks run.
@@davidmccarthy6061 a train can also carry 40x the people
American train system is outdated af compared to Japan that can go 200mph
@@TonyStark-wr7ob yeah so lets make our trains better!!
@@davidmccarthy6061 Yes. We can build train tracks to the airport
Flight operator in office - I just went to get a coffee 🤣
This might happen---in fifty years... P.T. Barnum would be proud.
Nice looks safe, a constant added remote monitoring of all systems and functions sent from the vehicles full self monitoring. Recording of all systems and actions for software recommendations and added software updates. All this will make shipping and transport affordable and sustainable and safe.
I am thankful that there are engineers tackling these complex problems. There are still many problems to overcome but just over 100 years ago people thought it was crazy to dream of flying at all. 3 cheers for the inventors and the innovators!
It is crazy to dream of flying, that is just a Hollywood CGI animation. Do you really think what you are seeing through those "windows" is real, they are just computer monitors.
It's feasible if they can really scale up the flights, and scale down the cost so regular people are able to use it. We already have helicopter transfer services (cost $800 to $1800) but those are for executives and wealthy people wanting to look cool. Those are in very specific locations where it makes sense with enough usage to remain in business transporting 1-8 people and some luggage. That also requires, like this, pads and landing rights which you can't just put anywhere. I wish them luck since a $36 quick ride from downtown Chicago to O'Hare would be welcome over driving or the train. But there are reasons there isn't common helicopter service now everywhere and even Wisk won't be as simple and cheap as car ride sharing getting home from the bar or football game. Not sure where they will be putting 5000 of these but it's nice to be hopeful.
A train ride from Schiphol Amsterdam airport to Amsterdam’s historic canal district is less then 15 minutes and very affordable. I think city planning has failed if there is a business case for air taxi’s. I think it’s a fun demo, but implies an apocalyptic vision of urban life in the future. 😢
Some are just trying to look cool, but for many it’s just saving time.
I am not so worried about the autonomous flight, the bigger issues are landing sites in the city (remember PanAm in NYC) and cost. They gave a competitive cost per mile comparable to higher-end taxi/uber/limo, assuming there are no big initial and per-minute costs like in those.
Imagine having the opportunity to buy air taxi stock at the bottom 🤔
If you have a humongous number of people using Wisk, then they will have to have infrastructure to handle the volume at airports.
If Tesla still hasn't perfected safe & accurate auto-pilot in *2d,* what makes you think this can handle autonomous flying in *3d?*
Airports are well controlled, so taking off and coming to an airport can be automated. But taking the passengers to a city, you have so many variables including bird strikes, a child playing a ball game, some cheeky person doing electronic jamming, air space getting restricted due to vip movement are a few to mention which needs a human behind the machine to do make a decision there and then.
Pretty cool. But I doubt they'll be operational until UTM is in place, and we all know how long it takes FAA to implement anything. Good luck. Let's hope you fly soon.
I'm a bit uncertain on if I should be excited or scared or both
What are the safety measures in place?.
@TDMH No smoking and alcohol?.
@TDMH YES get me on board.
MAYDAY MAYDAY! PILOT DON'T CRASH US!
*No Pilot
Me: F***!
There already exists a VTOL aircraft. It is called a HELICOPTER.
The problem is not many of us can buy Helicopters like cars, because it is Expensive.
If you can make a Helicopter Silent in a price range everyone can afford, say $20,000, we will see the concept of FLYING CARS become a reality.
Until then, it's a work in progress.
@Will Swift Great point, but I'm talking about everyone affording a flying car.
I wish in my lifetime; I could see flying cars pictured in Sci-fi movies; they're trying to make it, but there is still a long way ahead.
it'll be nice if given time and a good record it becomes accepted. but i could see any accident early on branding it "high wisk travel" 😀kinda hoping lighter than air craft passenger service will come back, but that seems like it might be a long time. 😞
Nothing beats good old fashion Trains
So, how loud is it?
great but it rides same amount people as a car but its as big as how much 4-5 cars? I dont see it at scale
I want to know more about the AMR Reality Index!
$3/mile? Most people live within an average of 30-60 minutes of work. I don't see people affording $90-$180 per day to go to work.
Minutes is different from miles. Driving might take 30-90 minutes but the distance could be only 15 miles in heavy traffic.
Seems cost would be equal to Uber, even surge pricing, but still very slim/niche market
15miles is usually 30min
I'm fully aware but thank you for the sly insult. Turning miles into minutes or vice versa doesn't increase the average person's income to be able to afford $450 - $900 per week to go to work.@David McCarthy
@@davidmccarthy6061 you need a round trip tho.
The future holds so much of excitement!!
It's a helicopter
Like it's literally a helicopter 😂😂😂
Noise pollution is a real concern with low flying vehicles, also in cities this would be a nightmare for the AI to avoid buildings and other unexpected tall structures, would only be a matter of time before a major incident. Nobody would or should trust these things until they're widely tested and rolled out incrementally
4 passengers loading into 50 foot wingspan every 2 ~ 3 minutes.. Not exactly mass transit.
I for sure read “wish” self flying air taxi
One thing to take into consideration is all the noise these things will generate. I think that's a huge consideration for mass adoption
yes, in these types of reports there's always music, never the actual high pitched screaming of the motors
I would not fly without a pilot for $1 million
I would expect automatic sliding doors on a product like this similar to city buses.
Why? We don't have automatic sliding doors even on the most advanced passenger jets. It probably makes sense to have a manual checkpoint for doors on flying machines.
And that’s when the T-Rex escapes the electric fence and grabs that eyesore out of the air.
I doubt it will take off. No pun intended. Pilotless passenger aircraft is a big leap of faith.
Claire makes any video watchable!
Sweet, we can now fly cross country for the low cost of $6,000; green energy is SO good for the environment that we only had to use 18 coal plants to recharge the batteries that required 3,000 TONS of mining to make.
This is not going to improve traffic as they claim. It only carries 4 people at once. They would need 500 giant drones to carry the amount of people of a single 16 car train.
I think eventually piloted turbine powered VTOLS will be come a viable alternative to helicopter travel (helicopters are hard to fly). Current battery tech has to vastly change as even regular drones can’t fly for much longer than 20 minutes. A giant drone with 4 people and small luggage probably can only fly for 10 minutes with current battery tech.
That vehicle is LOUD.
I would be more confortable with a pilot. Imagine an eVTOL with the 6 seater interior of a Vision Jet. Thats a lot better.
In New York , they can park on the building?
It's not an air taxi, it's an automated helicopter. It looks ridiculous and a massive health and safety hazard. It frustrates me that people are acting like these types of vehicles are offering anything new. Give us verticle take off, flying vehicles that don't have massive wingspans and exposed propellers. Only then will we have something truly revolutionary.
Please send a link to the more revolutionary VTOL aviation devices (which have been tested in-flight and able to sustain long distances autonomously while supporting the weight of the requisite on-board batteries) -- that you've been involved in creating.
As an aside - wings are required to sustain reasonable distances despite the heavy weight of batteries. The distance/efficiency of a winged-aircraft is required for this model to succeed.
interesting...
1. how noisy?
1. how to handle 20,000 over Los Angeles? does it scale?
Take your own "WISK"!!!!
No it won't. Its already been talked about since 2015-2016 and it never manifested even until now.
And that plane-helicopter-ish design is still the same ever since many years ago. Wide, big, impractical (only carry 4 passengers for that size) and non-compact design of the transportation. Bet the rotors also gonna be loud af. Good luck bringing that to the urban public
Noise, weather, reliability…. Just a few challenges.
Absolutely coooooooooool
Its all good until two crash together and then nobody uses them
Or into a building which seems inevitable
Redundancy? How many faults until it loses altitude? Any parachute for catastrophic failure?
The math on this is just stupid, at $3 per mile, for a 25 mile flight it costs $75, or $120 to go 40 miles!! Is the average commuter going to pay this? What a dumb idea to bank on for the future. Improve mass transit - it'd be cheaper and more effective than this pipe dream waste of money and resources.
So this guy is dreaming of a world with 75 million of these contraptions flying low overhead 24/7. Something to look forward to...
Not a taxi. That big wingspan will still require an airport.
They almost got the name right… Risk 😂
Fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!
current jetliner can basically to gate to gate on autopilot
This is how you get rid of someone without taking blame 😂
Flying automated cars sounds like a terrible idea, what happens if someone hacks the system?
They forgot Johannesburg (congested cities) 🇿🇦
I have flown a lot of drones and am aware how unstable they are.
I can't believe there is a company willing to invest millions into this ridiculous idea. I have more hope for the cities to become so bike friendly that traffic will become less congested than I have hope for this ever actually taking off.
A transportation notion we are quickly needing to move away from is expending huge amounts of energy to move just a few people. This may be electric, but it still expands much more energy to take a few people from one point to another. Climate change isn't just forcing us to rethink where we get our energy from, but how much we expend on tasks.
It's claimed this is a solution for congestion, but the future won't be in trying to avoid congestion, but in getting rid of it. The fact of the matter is our society is using outdated transportation ideas pushed on us by the auto and oil industries whose motivation was to create markets dependent on them.
This lead to car culture, roads everywhere, and commutes into cities. Basically a life where being a pedestrian was extremely difficult and a bicyclist was dangerous.
Instead of coming up with fantastical methods of travel and high tech solutions, we need to rethink our entire notion of transportation.
Decentralizing away from city building is crucial. In a day and age of remote working, why have cities with huge commutes? So developers and commercial building owners can get rich?
We also need to really move away from the idea of personal transportation and go back to the idea of public transportation. The old and auto industry made a concerted effort to kill such projects to force people to become dependent on cars. They've spent the last century fighting them and telling us through billions of dollars worth of advertising how we aren't practically human if we don't have a car.
In the past they went as far as buying some public transportation systems to kill them.
Just imagine what public transportation could be like if everyone put even half of what they paid in insurance, gas, loans, repairs, parking spots, etc for cars.
Why doesn't north america have a robust high speed rail system, like pretty much everywhere else.
We don't need fancy planes with questionable AI tech to fix outdated problems. We need to rethink everything we know about the society we live in. We need to stop coming up with ideas that expend more energy and come up with ways to reduce energy per task.
How exactly is this craft supposed to land to pick up passengers in any town or city due to its size? It's not very efficient or ideal to first travel to an open area while your in a major city, when all you want to do is get from one point to the next.
Helicopter does the same job
"Autonomous" is the key here which you missed it
@@kasim7929 Will I fly on it? No
Will I let someone who wants to fly on it? Yes, go for your life.
This is the concept here I guess 😂
@@venomousvenom010 Ok, but helicopter still does the same job
But at a very high cost per person, per ride.
Helicopters make more noise, are more expensive, burn fossil fuel.
Dont we already have helicopters?
huge problems: 1) it's too big. 2) 10-15 min travel time is too limited. 3) We need a pilot, for safety and psychological reasons 4) The chair and cabin design feels cramped and uncomfortable.
I’m upset about midterms and can’t pay attention to this🙃🧘♀️
Not bad
So people doesn't like supersonic airplane, but likes noisie drones?
Why is CNET doing a piece on the #7 company on the list? How about a tour of the top ten? That would be cool
yeah im good
This guy is dreaming, I don’t think anyone would buy into the idea that a city full of helicopters everywhere would be a better place to live than one full of cars. We tolerate the occasional helicopter passing by but can you imagine having hundreds of these things buzzing overhead constantly. I’m sure nobody wants a world like that.
Just give us affordable mass transit like high frequency trains please! None of this solves traffic for the most of us. It's fascinating, they are not even showing us these things flying. Just some cheap graphics.
Looks really cool but with hackers & all the issues with technology are we ready for self flight machines 🤔
basically an electric smart helicoptef
The consumer market has proven they don’t like propellers.
I won't be first in line (I'm sure it'll be too expensive if/when that happens anyway) but assuming it doesn't (literally) crash and burn, I do like the idea
Wisk at your own Risk
Its too big for carrying just 4 passengers.
Should be 1/3 of its current size.
Seems about right to me since a Bell 206L isn't exactly small. But they have to work out how they power this and how fast they can turn it around, just like restaurant profitability depends on turning tables.
uhm, i dont think that things wingspan can fit in a crowded city like new york