<story><title>SureFly –  a personal helicopter designed for safe and easy flight</title><url>http://workhorse.com/surefly</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oliv__</author><text>A part of me thinks this is really cool tech and it would be amazing for anyone to be able to just hop aboard their personal helicopter and fly wherever they want, but then another part of me thinks of the future this would create, skies no longer clear, filled with objects buzzing around and what hell that would be, on top of the already stressful and crazy life we have now.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s the kind of situation where I think I&amp;#x27;d actually rather the tech never exist.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bargl</author><text>This would have to fall into the ultralight classification for someone to fly this without training.  The FAA could easily classify this otherwise if they perceived any problem.&lt;p&gt;Also, getting your pilots license is nothing like getting a car license, the training is much harder and requires a certain amount of hours in the car with a licensed flight instructor before they can fly on their own (I believe it&amp;#x27;s 50 hours in the cockpit).  It&amp;#x27;s also prohibitively expensive as you have to pay for fuel and time.  You won&amp;#x27;t see a bunch of unmotivated teens flying these things any time soon.  Having worked at the FAA on the regulation side of things, I can also tell you if that did become a problem airspace and licensing would change.</text></comment>
<story><title>SureFly –  a personal helicopter designed for safe and easy flight</title><url>http://workhorse.com/surefly</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oliv__</author><text>A part of me thinks this is really cool tech and it would be amazing for anyone to be able to just hop aboard their personal helicopter and fly wherever they want, but then another part of me thinks of the future this would create, skies no longer clear, filled with objects buzzing around and what hell that would be, on top of the already stressful and crazy life we have now.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s the kind of situation where I think I&amp;#x27;d actually rather the tech never exist.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sigmonsays</author><text>I share this concern, and it will probably be awful in the beginning. However, that being said, I thought i&amp;#x27;d hate living next to an airport, and I live by one right now. The sounds of planes over my head are often ignored and I enjoy looking up and seeing a plane coming in for a landing. So what I thought I would hate I actually grew to enjoy. People adapt, that&amp;#x27;s actually what we&amp;#x27;re really good at.</text></comment>