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Comment Re: I cannot understand... (Score 1) 75

That's the whole point, the canadian version is already used for many years and this is merely a demo using a non-practical glider. I do hope the canadian version will be upgraded with solid state soon, but we probably won't hear anything about it here on /. as it's not interesting anymore by that time.

Comment Re: Silly. (Score 1) 75

Of course the first production ready planes will cost more due to needing to recover R&D costs, but in the end it will be so much cheaper to produce and safer as electric motors are so much simpler and can be so much more powerfull, and certainly with solid state batteries it is soooo much safer and one could easily have a simple changeable battery system where a plane lands, just replaces the large battery with a charged one and move on. They already have 30 seat passenger planes in development. And as you can read, the currently used SS battery already had 60% more energy as the one used previously, and they expect the next to even have 40% more, and solid state batteries are still only at the beginning of their development, so the amount of energy will increase even more. It might not be good enough for an intercontinental flight, but it sure will be more than enough for intercity/interstate flight. Also hybrids are also in development. And 4 person vehicles will be replaced with VOTL versions anyway as they are much more practical as they don't need ling runways. (And VOTLs are already shown by many companies).

Comment Stricter laws on publishing (Score 2) 98

You can't really stop people from recording in public, but you sure as hell can stop them from publishing it on the internet. Do make stricter laws on what can be published without consent. So if it is published it has to blur out anybody you don't have consent from (and that means not only faces, but complete body, and in a way it can't be reconstructed) especially if the intent is getting clicks/income from it. Also you can make it illegal to tamper with the indicator light.

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