Chinese develop passenger-carrying drone concept

[Sir_Hans]

inb4 american/european/japanese companies steal concept and rush to develope their own.


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[Leshma]

Fix your image, Hans.

I summon you in this thread, Emperor Yuang!

[Asheram]

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[Christo]

hope it has manual control (sorry just watched a small part)
because software can fuck up, and it will fuck up at some point (get it lel chino) and losing altitude while spinning to your doom is not fun

[Gravoth_iii]

hope it has manual control (sorry just watched a small part)
because software can fuck up, and it will fuck up at some point (get it lel chino) and losing altitude while spinning to your doom is not fun

gief catapult chairs and im good to go

Looks sick btw, it can fly with even with like 3 propellers gone, so thats something. 2016 is what they aim for as a launch, sounds crazy.

1:20 Good info

[Kafein]

Interesting.

hope it has manual control (sorry just watched a small part)
because software can fuck up, and it will fuck up at some point (get it lel chino) and losing altitude while spinning to your doom is not fun

Having a manual control override would probably result in more accidents, not less. What does "manual" even mean when you have 8 rotors to handle? That kind of aircraft needs significant computerized assistance to be controllable in the first place. Second, I suppose you can add a parachute anyway, but it has to have an extremely short deploy distance.

[Yuang]

Do you believe this is true? China does not even have its own large aircraft and helicopter technology.

[Torben]

Do you believe this is true? China does not even have its own large aircraft and helicopter technology.

drone like vehicules arent that special though

[Yuang]

drone like vehicules arent that special though

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It's cool, but too dangerous.

[Christo]

Interesting.

Having a manual control override would probably result in more accidents, not less. What does "manual" even mean when you have 8 rotors to handle? That kind of aircraft needs significant computerized assistance to be controllable in the first place. Second, I suppose you can add a parachute anyway, but it has to have an extremely short deploy distance.

okay sorry, you are better at flying vehicules too 

[Xant]

Fuck me if I'm going to fly a Chinese built passenger drone.

[The_Bloody_Nine]

Nah, it's too small for that.

[Beauchamp]

i know how huge sound a small drone makes, is there a way how to reduce the noise so you don't become deaf after your first flight? even helicopters make huge noise, this has to be even worse... and not for pilots only but for people on the ground too.

[Moncho]

... vehicules ...

What a beautiful word

[Kafein]

SORRY FOR BEING MORE ETYMOLOGICALLY CONSISTENT THAN ENGLISH