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Toyota pours another $500M into electric air taxi startup Joby Aviation | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

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[–] infeeeee@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

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.