Why doesn't /sci/ believe in hoverboards?
>Can't fly long
New batteries coming soon, 15 minute fly time by 2020
>Dangerous
Multirotors have redundancy, lose a few motors, float to the ground on the rest
>No-one will be allowed to fly it
It will be autonomous in built up areas, no restrictions on private land/wilderness
>No market
Getting through thick bush, swamp and crevasses is a pain. I watched a programme about some botanists out for plant samples deep in Colombia and they had to hire a helicopter just to get up a steep cliff. Would have been cheaper to hoverboard up.
>>7976349
>bush, swamp and crevasses
If you live in those areas you're probably broke as fuck, with exceptions for some drug warlords
People are too fat.
Because 15 minutes by the time I'm 32 is fucking useless, good hover boards will be about when I'm too old to give a fuck
>>7976349
What kind of hoverboard are we talking about? The magic kind in OP's picture, or the kind which uses a cushion of air underneath of an inflatable skirt?
>>7976413
At 30 mph that is nearly 8 miles. Also not everyone is an old man like yourself
>>7976403
This is a major problem. My design is for an 85 kg person, 90 kg max, 110 kg person? Forget about it.
>>7976421
I'm afraid reaction propulsion is the only real propulsion system in existence.
>he kind which uses a cushion of air underneath of an inflatable skirt?
You are thinking about hovercraft. Even that will struggle in the roughest terrain. It's also bumpy.
>>7976389
Tough terrain exists all over the West. Canada, USA, Australia etc. I heard ice is a real bitch in Canada, imagine if you could just fly over it.
>>7976349
Tell me OP, what is the physics behind a hover board? Please explain in detail. Once you explain that, please tell me how I will be able to mass produce said boards. Once you explain that, please tell me why it is better than a skateboard or bicycle as a mean of street level transportation.
>>7976459
Spin propeller with electricity
Spinning propeller pushes air downwards
Air pushes you upwards because Newton
Antigravity!
>Once you explain that, please tell me how I will be able to mass produce said boards
Pay a factory to make propellers?
>Once you explain that, please tell me why it is better than a skateboard or bicycle as a mean of street level transportation.
Moves as the crow flies, impervious to traffic, more fun.
Funny, the contrarians are nowhere to be found today...
