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    they think they’ll be flying them within 4 years despite battery tech being a fair way off? Huh?

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      Gotta pretend for the shareholders

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    2028 conveniently is just far enough away for us to have forgotten all about those claims by then

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      The Elon strategy.

      FSD in two years

      “Mars landing by 2024

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    If a vote come to ban this in my city I’d go knock on doors and try get as much support for banning them as I can.

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    No thanks . Cars are already super noisy . So a glorified quadcopter

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    rich people with too much money pretending to have a problem to solve. most people arent using the helicopters this use case covers

    this is just bored rich people building stuff they think is cool, most of which is a dead end

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    and in 2029 TikTok teens are gonna be stealing them with USB drives

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      Himself, and other CEOs of multinational conglomerates.

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    Hydrogen might actually make sense for these, since you need extreme energy density. But I doubt they’ll be very widespread because of airspace restrictions and faa approval. I don’t see how they’d be that much more common than city helicopters are now.

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    Can I just have a government subsidised EV so I can stop polluting pls

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    Paris will ban them before thier release lol

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    Yeah maybe if the wars in the world subside.

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      If anything, wars are an amazing source of technological advancement.

      This is not to say that I want war, but to acknowledge the fact that it absolutely fuel innovation

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        Broken window fallacy.

        The same funds used to pay for wars and wartime rnd could just be spent directly on rnd.

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          Could be, but usually aren’t.

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          That is fair, I mainly wanted to counter the claim that wars won’t advance tech