By 2019, Paul Moller had spent more than 50 years developing the Moller M400 Skycar.
This was going to be micro aircraft capable of vertical take-off and landing, allowing anyone with a drivers license to jump in and fly by inputting speed and direction.
After 40 years of development and over 100,000,000 in investment, the M400 demonstrated a short, tethered “hovering” flight.
To this day the design has no longer progressed and the Moller International company is dormant.
The thing is, in a few years it’s likely that a different variation of a similar idea is readily available from Uber. And, at the same time, Paul Moller had an “unsolvable problem.”
Based on what seems like almost unlimited funding, 50 years of development and numerous tests, a small, personal air-taxi wasn’t something that could be done.
Some problems, such as the M400 are unsolvable based on current resources or constraints.
Most though, are solvable.
So the first step, is to figure out if the problem or goal that you have is solvable, or unsolvable.
If it’s truly unsolvable, just walk away now. It’s not worth it.
If it’s solvable, then we simply get to ask: “What is the next step?”
