With new battery tech being developed is it really still just completely out of the realm of possibility to create an electric passenger drone, especially when some electric vehicles have ranges of 500+ miles? I have been very intrigued by Jetson creating their single person drone, but i’m just so curious when we will see a passenger drone, and even better, one that has more than 20 minutes of flight time. Is the current battery tech just still too heavy?
Also, are there any options to make them more practical, Hydrogen fuel for example?
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It is technically possible but not safe. If an airplane lose power it can glide back down to a safe landing. If a helicopter lose power it is also possible to control the helicopter down to a safe landing using autorotation. But the way modern quadcopter drones are built today if they lose power on even one of their motors they become uncontrollable and crash. There are just so many failures which can happen which would be deadly to any passengers. Until we can solve these and make sure the drone can safely land with any of its components failing you are not going to get permission to put people on these drones.
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