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US Air Force just demoed its first flying car, and it's excessive:
It's no secret that the US Air Force wants flying cars. The branch of the US Military announced last year that it was starting to explore electric vertical take off and landing (eVTOL) craft, and earlier this year, said it wants 30 vehicles in service by 2030.
After its first demonstration last week, the Air Force has just got a little closer to this goal.
[...] On Thursday last week, officials gathered in Austin, Texas to witness the first demonstration of a flying car, the 18 rotor Hexa made by Texas eVTOL startup, LIFT Aircraft.
[...] The picture below shows you pretty much everything else you need to know. The Hexa generates lift with a load of electric rotors, has space for one passenger, and it takes off from a standstill in a vertical direction.
One thing is for sure, these eVTOL craft look kinda dorky, or you might even say excessive. We'll have to come round to their aesthetic sooner or later because that excessiveness is kind of a safety requirement. LIFT says that the Hexa can land safely with up to six rotors disabled.
The demonstration was all part of what the Air Force calls its Agility Prime program, a collection of developers, communities, and events that aims to spearhead the development of personal eVTOL flying cars.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Wednesday August 26 2020, @06:31PM (2 children)
What's really excessive and dorky is how TFA (the first link) completely fills my browser window with stupendously gigantic Farcebook, Twatter, and Lumped In logos until I enable a cross-domain request to their CDN. I'm sorry but your site should not look that bizarrely awful when CSS is disabled. One common pattern used in web development is to load a stylesheet often named "reset.css" that's supposed to establish a common baseline of default styles so they're the same across all browsers. That doesn't sound like a bad idea in itself but the trouble is more often than not, those default styles are idiotic and make a page hideous and almost unreadable until you load all the other style sheets (or more commonly these days, enable their "responsive" Javascript). No CSS should make your document look worse than a browser default. That's insane.
I gave up even looking for the picture of the fucking flying car because I didn't want to enable anymore shitty scripts.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 26 2020, @06:52PM
It's a design flaw shared with many sites that I've seen. Gigantic logos or symbols as the fallback, and maybe you can scroll down past them to get to the content.
(Score: 2) by leon_the_cat on Wednesday August 26 2020, @08:23PM
its even called thenextweb. I guess its training for your mouse scroll finger.