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Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldM to Hardware@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago

Toyota pours another $500M into electric air taxi startup Joby Aviation | TechCrunch

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Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldM to Hardware@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago
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Toyota is doubling down on Joby Aviation with a $500 million investment into the California-based company that's developing electric air taxis. Toyota's
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    Oh you wanted proof, quick search says here Ardupilot firmware could handle 1 motor loss with 5+ rotors in 2018: https://discuss.ardupilot.org/t/handling-motor-loss/32359

    And a seven years old video of a home made hexacopter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap8ngQqt7s8

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      Ah, nice, I did not know that!

      Thank you for sharing the video, cool!

      That being said, it is one failsafe, for normal drones, but after looking further at the image of the Toyota concept, I can sort of see what you mean, as it is a different construction to that of a normal drone.

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