Sydney guinea pig for uber's flying cars

[tazzieman]

http://www.afr.com/technology/uber-considering-sydney-for-flying-vehicle-trial-as-leadership-turmoil-rages-on-20170807-gxrf2b

The excited millenials behind this sort of thing are probably already hooked up with their silicone sex robots.
The future is so , like , exciting!!!!! Artificial intelligence is no substitute for real intelligence, but you'll never know that 

[Redracn]

Interesting Article.

Uber makes huge losses. But that is good because they are not as huge as they have been. 

Uber is stuffed internally.

California the home of tech and green has kicked Uber autonomous cars of the states roads for running red lights. But is was the humans fault for not intervening so nothing to see here.

Without a 10x breakthrough in battery energy/mass/volume density the battery helicopter is a pipe dream. 

 

 

[Coastr]

With the world collectively hitting the fainting couch if a google self driving car hits a bus - i can't see flying ones taking off.

Must be about time for that voller guy to pop up again with his skycar.

[tazzieman]

Mr Jetson nails the manager's stretch at the end. There will be no proper jobs so people better get used to this.

 

[LeeM]

Seems Australia is a dumping ground for stupid ideas! Or is that just SA and Jay Weatherill?