DRONES. URBAN AIR TRANSPORTS. eVTOL-whatever you call the next-generation vehicles that will supposedly whisk urban dwellers around a metropolitan region-face many challenges, but it may not be the challenges you think. The electric motors, the batteries, and the technology to control such aircraft exist today. Sure, improvements must be made to increase performance, especially with batteries. But the real challenge, according to technology expert Dave Vos, is the ability-or willingness-of software developers to quickly learn what the aviation and aerospace industry has struggled with for more than 100 years-demanding a level of reliability and redundancy that is safe right out of the box.
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