[noduerme]

I agree. No one ever said waverunners were a practical form of transportation, but they still sell millions of them. This does look like a really fun personal toy, though. I can easy imagine some rich dudes taking them for Endor-style races through the forest up here.

[tweedledee]

That would involve Endor-style crashes, it would be insanely dangerous. Flying FPV drones gives much of the same feeling without the all the death.

[noduerme]

I live in a forest between a river and a winding road... I see people do craaazy shit all the time, from death races in expensive sports cars on the road to wave running way too close to the dock to loading paintball guns with ball bearings and shooting them in the woods; and I'm telling you it's not if someone does an Endor race with this thing, it's when.

[anonporridge]

You can also take gondolas to the top of mountains, but people still climb them, putting themselves in unnecessary risk of death for the same views.

There will always be some subset of people willing to do crazy dangerous things when similar safe alternates exist.

And I for one am excited to see the race footage.

[tweedledee]

I've flown FPV drones through forests, it's insane. The reaction speeds needed are crazy. It is almost impossible to last a day without crashing. I'm sure there are lots of fun things to do with it, but Endor style races is not one of them. The people willing to do things that crazy don't last very long.

[anonporridge]

You could say the same thing about free solo climbing.

Yet people still do it (and regularly die) and keep pushing the limits of what we thought was possible.

[tweedledee]

I am aware crazy people do exist. It's a matter of degree and I would suggest that flying this thought a forest Endor style would be far more dangerous than free solo climbing.

[rob74]

It's more or less like wingsuit flying, just faster and with obstacles much closer. So yeah, I would say orders of magnitude more dangerous than free solo climbing...

[anonporridge]

Like a powered paraglider on steroids.