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New Customer? E leven years after Google co-founder Larry Page bankrolled one of the first efforts to develop an electric flying car, rivals appear to be accelerating past his company Kitty Hawk in the race to lift your daily commute into the sky. But there may be no first mover advantage in the uncharted skies of urban air mobility and Kitty Hawk CEO Sebastian Thrun has an ambitious plan to leapfrog the pack that he revealed to Forbes that hinges on convincing safety regulators to allow it to fly passengers without a pilot onboard—something that most other air taxi developers hope to do eventually but which they think is a tall order in the near term.
Federal Aviation Administration. Thrun will do this without Damon Vander Lind, the engineer who conceived of and built the initial versions of Heaviside, a small, elegant airplane capable of taking off and landing like a helicopter that the company says has achieved efficiency and range in unmanned test flights that may be better than any other eVTOL yet.
Vander Lind was sacked in May after months of tussling with Thrun and Page over the path forward, Thrun confirmed. Sources say Vander Lind thought their strategy too risky. His departure also follows accusations that he was unreceptive to the ideas of his employees and hostile to some who disagreed with him, contributing to a toxic work culture.
Vander Lind declined to comment to Forbes. Filling some of the void will be a new chief operating officer: Chris Anderson, the former editor of Wired magazine and co-founder of 3D Robotics, which mounted an unsuccessful attempt to challenge DJI in the consumer drone market.
Kitty Hawk is acquiring the company, which, after mass layoffs and pivoting to producing commercial drone software, has returned to building a drone, this time for U. Two female engineers quit in April complaining of sexism and poor treatment.
Three engineers on the Heaviside program also quit over the past nine months, because, according to ex-employees who spoke with Forbes on the condition of anonymity, they believed they had been retaliated against by Vander Lind due to his suspicions that they were the authors of an anonymous safety report that was filed in late A fourth was fired.
The report, which was shared with Forbes , charged that Vander Lind was failing to close the loop on perfecting systems on the second-generation Heaviside prototype, including not adequately defining crash requirements and other safety specs, while trying to move forward to designing the next version of the aircraft amid rapid timelines, and that he reacted poorly to engineers who pushed him on these issues.
Thrun says a review of the allegations was conducted by an external lawyer. One of the female engineers who quit in April sent a letter to human resources that was shared with Forbes in which she alleged that she was not afforded the same level of respect as male colleagues and her ideas were routinely ignored. Thrun said an external investigation had failed to turn up any instances of discrimination based on gender, race or other status, but that the company had brought in an advisory firm to help with inclusion and company culture.
He said that Covid may have exaggerated problems with communication in the company. Thrun told Forbes he had taken a hands-off approach by design—but not anymore.
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