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Kristoffer Lawson Nov 15, 2024

There are several #EVTOL startups around, struggling to raise enough capital for their air taxi designs:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c33em6jrx1go

I'm constantly surprised that the #autogyro design isn't used for any of these.

It's proven technology (older than the helicopter), can be made much safer and simpler than a helicopter (the early ones were safer than planes), they are much quieter and even power loss is not often a big deal. Vertical takeoff can be done with various mechanisms.

Europe's flying taxi dreams falter as cash runs short

Makers of a new generation of European electric aircraft are struggling to raise money.

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The Long Tail Nov 15, 2024

@Setok It's the same in IT. Newcomers have no knowledge of the history of the profession and so think every problem is new and novel.
This leads them to designing new solutions that are inevitably worse than existing solutions.

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Kristoffer Lawson

@sleepyfox yeah. We were just discussing how 'low/no code' solutions have been tried, decade after decade. And generally end up facing the same issue: coding is describing some behaviour accurately, and it's nice to have a precise language for doing that rather than, say, English.

But hey, the same 'lessons forgotten' tends to apply to politics too ...