undefined | Better HN

0 pointsawesome_dude5mo ago0 comments

Him being right, or wrong, is a bold call to make.

But all he's saying is he wants to run his company the way tech entrepreneurs have been for a while - "It's better to ask forgiveness than permission" which they like because it's favored toward them, and, by the time a regulator has caught up, they have made a pile of money, or lost it all and gone.

0 comments

ETH_start5mo ago

For a different perspective, it's the difference between the kind of (pro-innovation) restrictions imposed on automobile companies versus those (anti-innovation) ones imposed on aircraft companies:

https://fee.org/articles/how-the-faa-is-keeping-flying-cars-...

awesome_dudeOP5mo ago

There's a couple of problems with that.

1. For some reason it only talks in terms of the USA, there's a whole world of manufacturers that could have stepped up to create flying cars if the market was interested.

2. There was, for a very long time, a thing called a "microlight" which allowed people to own their own snap private air craft (although not generally VTOL)

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse