Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “A Personal Flying Machine for Under $100,000”.
We got a chance to get up close and personal with the Jetson one, an EV toll that costs less than a hundred thousand dollars. We talked to Jetson one’s co-founder and Senior advisor to learn about the ins and outs of this one seat, flyer and when you might expect to see one buzzing around a sky near you, one has been going on a tour through the U.S we caught up with It in Southern California, during its stop at the abundance 360 technology Summit and got a tour of the flying, machine’s different components by Jetson’s, co-founder and head of innovation. Thomas patan, who commuted to work using the EV toll back in 2022.. You’Ve got the very simple controls inside the cockpit. You’Ve got two joysticks one of them. You go up and down, and you have another joystick which is forward back left right and yo.
The Jetson one looks like what you might get if a drone and a Formula One car had a baby, much like many consumer drones, the propellers on the Jetson one fold away for a more convenient storage and transportation, and you can put it in the back of Your pickup truck or put it in the trailer. So when folded, it’s only one meter in width, 2.5 meters long around one meter tall, the vehicle itself weighs less than 200 pounds and was specifically designed to fit the faa’s requirements for an ultralight vehicle, meaning it can be flown without a pilot’s license in the U.S. That’S super lightweight, and it’s because of the materials that we decided to use. As I mentioned, this is aluminum safety cell frame and carbon fiber lots of carbon fiber. We also use some 3D printed Parts. Software limits the Jets in one’s top speed to 63 miles per hour, and it can stay airborne even after one motor fails. We use a flight computer, and this makes flying experience very easy.
It only takes minutes to learn how to fly it. You sit in this bucket seat made out of carbon fiber and Kevlar. You are strapped with a four-point harness and the flight computer takes care of all the difficulties when, when you’re doing the flight, the other safety feature, which is very important, is the ballistic parachute that will be located in this area, and this parachute deploys very rapidly.
It can save you in the worst case scenario from 20 meters. The Jetson one is fully electric with the battery positioned underneath the cockpit there’s a GPS sensor on top and a lidar sensor on the bottom. That enables an automatic Landing feature. The company is based in Stockholm, but they are definitely targeting buyers in the USA, pre-orders for the Jetson one have already started. Jetson’S senior advisor recard steiber shared how you can buy one and when you might expect to see one flying through a sky near you, you can buy it online on jetson.com, it’s 98 000 and a 8 000 deposit.
We are now in the full testing of this vehicle and you can expect to see the first ones flying you know in within the year here in the US as well. What do you think of the Jetson one? Would you like to take it for a spin? Let us know down in the comments to see more of cnet’s coverage of the Jets in one check out, Andy’s video right here and subscribe for the latest and greatest stories in Tech, as always thanks so much for watching. I’M your host Jesse oral, see you next time with the fam .