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
A car with four wheels can get puncture in four wheels, so you have more points of failure than a motorcycle.
We can build helicopters with one engine. Adding five more engines doesn’t necessarily 5 points of failures but 5 backup engines. I tried to point out that your example is not exactly right in this case.
Sigh, with regards to drones, they use the torque from the motor to steer, they are also very finely balanced, so a motor dying in flight will make it fall from the sky.
Now, this is clearly different from this device as it has (small) wings and the engines in the picture are all pointing diagonally in the same way, meaning that some lift is generated by the wings.
It might be enough to land in an emergency if an engine quits.
But a normal quad or even a hexa drone will just crash or start spinning if one engine quits.
But I am man enough to be swayed by evidence, so show me a drone with one engine quitting mid flight that doesn’t just crash.
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.
What?
That isn’t my logic at all.
I simply stated that six enginges in this configuration does not mean that is is failsafe.
A car with four wheels can get puncture in four wheels, so you have more points of failure than a motorcycle.
We can build helicopters with one engine. Adding five more engines doesn’t necessarily 5 points of failures but 5 backup engines. I tried to point out that your example is not exactly right in this case.
Sigh, with regards to drones, they use the torque from the motor to steer, they are also very finely balanced, so a motor dying in flight will make it fall from the sky.
Now, this is clearly different from this device as it has (small) wings and the engines in the picture are all pointing diagonally in the same way, meaning that some lift is generated by the wings.
It might be enough to land in an emergency if an engine quits.
But a normal quad or even a hexa drone will just crash or start spinning if one engine quits.
But I am man enough to be swayed by evidence, so show me a drone with one engine quitting mid flight that doesn’t just crash.
I don’t know man, you should ask Toyota engineers who just payed $500M for this flying coffin. They should be really stupid for doing that,
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
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.