Anderson Cooper tests out Lift Aircraft's Hexa

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[eraserlaser]

"I can really feel the wind up here" whilst hovering 5 metres above ground level🤣

[tommiller]

All it needs is a rapidly deploying parachute in the event of a power loss.

[augmentedwealth]

Did I hear 15 minute battery life? So their focus will be battery resources for extended light.

[Ezzequiel]

Aircraft for daily commute will never happen, and there's a very simple reason for that: If your car malfunctions on your way to work or dropping kids at school, you simply pull over to the shoulder or secondary street and wait for AAA or whatever tow service you prefer. While on an aircraft, a malfunction probably means the end of you. It's really not that hard to visualize 🤷🏻‍♂️

[chadgaspard]

500k to fly 15 minutes. This tech has come a long way but has an even longer way to go.

[JohnDoe-ozfh]

What good is a drone that can only fly 15 minutes on a showed called 60 Minutes? There’s 45 minutes left for “fillers”

[Americaninparis]

This is a super idea but until the battery tech gets better, it's not very practical. Still for joyrides, it's great; for commutes, not so much.

[cl]

Should have used the ejection seat for that passenger.

[mosconi]

Somehow they "toned down" the noise in this video. Another video of a different guy flying one of these was downright "deafening." A few rides to work and you'd definitely lose your hearing unless those helmets they wear cut down the noise level a lot!

[DaveyCrockett]

It took 30 minutes for gay Anderson Cooper to figure out the joystick. Is he really gay?

[jkbear]

Can you imagine everyone flying this ? Would love to be on the ground watching that day

[keithgardner]

Ummm... "You can fly 10 miles in 10 minutes, instead of spending over an hour in rush hour congestion." I have two problems with this.
First, earlier it said that the speed of it is 35 miles per hour. But 10 miles in 10 minutes is literally a mile a minute, or 60 mph. So no, you can't fly 10 miles in 10 minutes.
Second, the reason it takes over an hour in rush hour congestion is because, well, it's congested. It's rush hour. It's no big deal to cover 10 miles in a car at 60 mph, with no traffic. Imagine instead that everyone trades their cars in for an eVTOL. How's that air congestion going to be? Where are you gonna land? Where are you gonna "park"?
The entire argument only works if only the "fortunate few" buy the eVTOLs, frankly. Not the audience I would personally care to cater to these days.

[alesstysanchez]

If you put some lights under there, you can fool entire UFO communities (as they call them lol)

[stephen]

drink holder? hello, REFRESHING BEVERAGE HOLDER ????

[billsmith]

There is info out there that suggest no license required but I wonder because they say it is over 500lbs and ultra light Part 103 is still 254 lbs. I checked the regs thinking perhaps they increased the weight limit but they have not and it has been 254 lbs for 10 years or more.

[Retrracin]

15 mins would not even get me to the store and back.

[tomv]

I figure all of the people buying electric vehicles now will be very angry three years from now when the range ends up increasing five fold.

[BianicEpicVideos]

2034
UBER air and Lyft Flights
Will be a thing

[sweetsagehomesteadfarm]

I think this is really cool!!!
For $250 you get to be a test subject. If enough test subjects live then we’ll market it to the public as a safe form of transportation. Just kidding😁

[algorithmics]

The air traffic is a very delicate subject. You see the tons of rules that exist right now just for few airplanes. And also the consequences of an accident, malfunctions, human behavior, etc. can you imagine this implemented massively? It’s chaos. Unless you have some sort of automation for everyone or other mitigation mechanisms. We have to be realistic.