Hyundai and Uber reveal full-size air taxi prototype at CES 2020

Damn what hap­pen to Ash­ley style. I remem­ber when she had a cool young corky Style. What hap­pened to her easy, breezy Style. What hap­pened to the red glass­es and fun­ny logo shirts etc. Girl do we need to go back too Tech­noBuf­fa­lo to find you’re style, maybe Jon Ret­tinger left it when he sold the company.

Hyundai? Lol. Would you fly in a Kore­an made plane?

Acad­e­my city anyone

This won’t be around until 2050–2060

I think wrong infor­ma­tion was sent to cnet by some pro­mo­tors not by engi­neers. I’m pret­ty sure you didn’t inter­view the real hyundai engi­neers stand­ing there, but I under­stand. Any­way, it should be cor­rect­ed as that the vehi­cle will be rapid­ly recharged for 5–7 min­utes after every 20–25 miles of sin­gle trip. The required time for full-charg­ing was not revealed yet. I just want to make sure that we nev­er expect that the full-charg­ing can be done in 5 min­utes. Also 62 miles which you might have read in the spec­i­fi­ca­tion is the max­i­mum range of the air­craft with ful­ly charged bat­tery. But nom­i­nal range of each trip (dis­tance between sky­ports) is assumed as approx 25 miles. You might get what I would like to explain if you read uber’s white paper or vehi­cle requirement.

Love how she asks ques­tions and then helps him fin­ish the answers. She basi­cal­ly rolls over him, usu­al­ly with bet­ter responses.

The Hyundai is sooo cool!

And she says that Drones are “loud”… ket­tle is call­ing the pot black… must be a result of smok­ing pot.

I don’t need to watch it but just wan­na let you know some facts. I like the con­cept of Uber. But Hyundai? Good luck. Just some years ago, cou­ple of my friends got their Hyundai car engine stopped with­out any symp­toms, and even the mas­ter engi­neer did­n’t know the rea­sons. Even­tu­al­ly my friends paid penal­ty for fin­ish­ing off the lease ear­ly and went for anoth­er car. They nev­er got anoth­er Hyundai. I have nev­er used Hyundai nor I am affil­i­at­ed with any car mak­ers or asso­ciates. How­ev­er, imag­ine when engine fail­ure like that hap­pens on air taxi? What’s gonna happen?

So it’s basi­cal­ly a fan­cy V‑22 Osprey?

Drones aren’t loud! Heli­copter, jets & planes are loud. Smh.

Need­ed a lot less talk about legal issues IMO. Just show and dis­cuss the item we can fig­ure the rest out our­selves, I think I have as much knowl­edge as a paid announcer.

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Drunk or Not Drunk.
I say Drunk.

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This is what a pro­duc­er yelling into her ear­piece sounds like as she decon­structs some­thing she does­n’t under­stand line by line to make up for that Matrix comment.

Hyundai: How many rotors do you want?

Uber: Yes

Show more pic­tures and videos instead of talking

To address some con­cerns about the Hyundai SA‑1 from the “jour­nal­ists”:

1) The con­cern with noise: Unlike a sin­gle rotor heli­copter (which has to do most of the work to gen­er­ate lift, thus hav­ing a fast blade tip speed), due to the 8 pro­pellers, the rotors on the SA‑1 can be slow­er while still gen­er­at­ing the same and/or greater lift. This ulti­mate­ly gives us reduced noise com­pared to a reg­u­lar heli­copter. The inte­ri­or has great active noise can­cel­la­tion tech­nol­o­gy which is also incor­po­rat­ed into the sys­tem for the interiors. 

2) Safe­ty: It has redun­dan­cies built-in (8 pro­pellers) which would help dis­trib­ute pow­er dis­tri­b­u­tion if one of the rotors were to mal­func­tion. In addi­tion, as was men­tioned in the video, it has an auto­mat­ic para­chute system.