Robert

Looking for a real job.. Until then I’ll stick to running companies and flying airplanes.

[Robert @robbansa]

Airplanes are cool

[Robert @robbansa]

@FredrikHjelm4 @pjparson Yes!! This is a good take. Sure, take one extra round and think is this really solving a real problem. Then build it

[Robert @robbansa]

@FredrikHjelm4 Delivered is a generous choice of words. So far this government has delivered a lot of press releases and a continuously growing gap to the leaders in the biggest technological transformation of a century.

[Robert @robbansa]

@thinkymachines Wow, this really shows promise on some of the most challenging pieces of human-ai interaction. I want it

[Robert @robbansa]

@garrytan I love this nerdy stuff, but as a founder and pilot I can’t help wondering how big the market opportunity is? Maybe there are more aviation nerds out there than I initially thought. Or they find a way to unlock new business models. Flightradar24 became a unicorn so… 🚀

[Robert @robbansa]

Probably me being old. Sometimes I think on how we got all these ai solutions to help us communicate better and in the end it makes it so we don’t actually communicate at all. Instead my ai is commenting your ai based on context… 🤷‍♂️

[Robert @robbansa]

Stockholm, they make public transport so expensive that it’s actually cheaper for me and my wife to take the car into town, pay tolls, pay parking, than to buy tickets for public transport.

Meanwhile public transport isn’t bringing in enough. Wonder why…

[Robert @robbansa]

I often wonder how I’d fare in an aircraft evacuation. People seem to be carrying the nuclear launch codes in the hand luggage given how important it is.

Complete evacuation in 90 seconds, using 50% of exits, in darkness. That is the certification requirement.

No time for bags

[Robert @robbansa]

@BuschEbba Vill ifrågasätta valet av titel. Techbro är ett nedvärderande ord om en stereotyp, nog inte det vi önskar mer av.

Finns mycket vi kan göra. Det mesta behöver bredare politiskt stöd. Men även riktade insatser finns (börjat prata med vår generalkonsul i SF om tankar här).

[Keg ✈️🇦🇺 @Keg767]

This is pretty cool.

Lufthansa dual engine failure on the A350. Autopilots remain available!

[Robert @robbansa]

Autonomy in the air is not only about the technology being there. It’s more about conforming to regulation for a very high stakes airspace where you can’t just pull over and wait for assistance if something goes wrong.

More players, higher requirements.

[Robert @robbansa]

Reliable Robotics, Merlin Labs, Xwing (now Joby superpilot) have all flown fully autonomous retrofitted aircraft.

But someone beat them by 75 years. The army (before the Air Force was a thing) flew a fully autonomous, unmanned, Douglas C54D-1-DC-Skymaster 2900 miles in 1947.

[Robert @robbansa]

The idea that Europe could compete with Silicon Valley is fundamentally flawed.

A continent can't compete with a 50-60 km radius.

I’m European. We’ve lost accountability, everything bad is someone else’s fault. Everything good is unfair.

[Robert @robbansa]

@gustaf How to actually connect with SF investors and ecosystem. I asked a bunch of angels, founders and investors here for intros in SF prior to my trip there last week. Turns out most Swedes want to appear better connected than they are. 0 intros. Did cold outreach myself instead.

[Robert @robbansa]

Talked to five different law firms regarding a situation. Everyone said they could help, but left me not convinced. Then spoke to a top tier firm who in the first call asked three questions and then said this is how you should do it.

Premium is sometimes cheaper.

[Robert @robbansa]

@davidrgoldberg Oh! I see, it is a quite reasonable fear at the face of things. But as you say, you are quite safe, you are about 100x safer flying that in a car. Fear is not always a logical thing though, so I feel with you there

[Robert @robbansa]

@paulg @hkanji Seems like a lot here don’t have anywhere to be. Only makes sense if there are multiple stops along the route.

[Robert @robbansa]

Bay Area. What a place! Airports. Helpful people who default to ”what if it works” and all sorts of neighborhoods. Autonomy. Yes even some weird golden cars with cyberpunkish logo... I see you @elonmusk

[Robert @robbansa]

@FreezeLanceDev Whoop Whoop! What a mess!