Crazy or genius...what do you think?

[Paul Harvey]

With the DJI ban looming, I believe we need a good drone company to appear in the U.S. But who could come close to topping DJI anytime soon? IMO, Elon Musk can. He has the technology, the money, the ability and desire to innovate, etc. This from Google:

Elon Musk is associated with products from his leading companies: Tesla (electric vehicles like the Model Y and Cybertruck, and solar products), SpaceX (Starlink internet service, Starship for space travel), xAI (the Grok AI chatbot), and previously OpenAI and Zip2. He also founded The Boring Company (tunneling infrastructure) and developed early internet services.

I think he could cobble together a good, high-quality drone with all (or most) of a DJI drone's features and maybe even some new ones. I'd suggest it to him but I don't have his phone number. Anyone know how to contact him?

So is this a good idea or what?

 

[Kilrah]

Then you'll get to pay $10000 in advance for an obstacle avoidance feature that's "coming soon", wait 10 years without it ever appearing, and be told that it'll actually need new hardware and not be anywhere as capable as what was advertised when you paid for it anyway

 

[Paul Harvey]

Then you'll get to pay $10000 in advance for an obstacle avoidance feature that's "coming soon", wait 10 years without it ever appearing, and be told that it'll actually need new hardware and not be anywhere as capable as what was advertised when you paid for it anyway

So I guess that's a NO?

 

[Cafguy]

Sure it’s a good idea but they are gonna be expensive…..Probably require Starlink..lol

 

[AeroJ]

You can contact Elon on Twitter ! But since he has fallen out of favour with your god-king he probably won't be prepared to pay the necessary bribes or do the kow-towing.

And we won't even let his cars in the country they are deemed so unsafe, so there is that...

 

[Marty Markoe]

Elon Musk, tech genius? Me thinks not. His SpaceX Rockets are complete failures, well not complete, just three out of four blew up prematurely.

 

[AeroJ]

Elon Musk, tech genius? Me thinks not. His SpaceX Rockets are complete failures, well not complete, just three out of four blew up prematurely.

I can let him off the exploding rockets - we expect a number of those to go boom while we find the right way to build them, and I am told it's very helpful to the ongoing effort when they do. At least 3 need to blow up before we find one that doesn't !

 

[Felix le Chat]

With the DJI ban looming, I believe we need a good drone company to appear in the U.S. But who could come close to topping DJI anytime soon? IMO, Elon Musk can. He has the technology, the money, the ability and desire to innovate, etc. This from Google:

Elon Musk is associated with products from his leading companies: Tesla (electric vehicles like the Model Y and Cybertruck, and solar products), SpaceX (Starlink internet service, Starship for space travel), xAI (the Grok AI chatbot), and previously OpenAI and Zip2. He also founded The Boring Company (tunneling infrastructure) and developed early internet services.

I think he could cobble together a good, high-quality drone with all (or most) of a DJI drone's features and maybe even some new ones. I'd suggest it to him but I don't have his phone number. Anyone know how to contact him?

So is this a good idea or what?

Genius?... Nutter?... Not sure about either - but I'm certain this chap wrote a song about him...

 

[Marty Markoe]

At least 3 need to blow up before we find one that doesn't !

Yup, I'd be happy to lose 3 out of 4 quadcopters to enrich Musk.*

* Heading to urgent care to remove my government inefficient brain. Big DUH!!!

 

[tstr14]

Well, he 'could' buy DJI and move them here....

 

[AeroJ]

Well, he 'could' buy DJI and move them here....

He could certainly try, but I'll eat my drone if they want to sell DJI to him !
They might let him license it !! *Cough* Skyrover.

 

[Paul Harvey]

Well, he 'could' buy DJI and move them here....

Now there's a good idea!

 

[Paul Harvey]

Elon Musk, tech genius? Me thinks not. His SpaceX Rockets are complete failures, well not complete, just three out of four blew up prematurely.

Failure? Richest man in the world? I wish I was that kind of failure!