[grobbyy]

Boeing has a lot of untapped markets. It's one of the few companies which can do things which require scale and regulatory changes in aviation.

Technology is where autonomous flying cars, for example, are mostly constrained by regulatory and major capital.

Less ambitious would be things like sleeper planes for long haul red-eyes.

General aviation is a smaller industry, but also ripe for distribution by someone with capital and regulatory connections. It's stuck in 1970-era technology.

I can name dozen of other things Boeing could pull off, if lead by someone like Jobs -- someone with both vision and the ability to execute.

[rob74]

If you want flying cars, please invent a silent, energy-efficient and safe levitation technology first, then we can talk...

[grobbyy]

Silent is hard, but safe and efficient is virtually any modern jetliner. The interesting problem is safe, easy, low-maintenance and cheap.

[FirmwareBurner]

>Technology is where autonomous flying cars, for example

This just sounds like fantasy wishful thinking like Elon's Hyperloop or FSD Model 3 Robotaxis that have been constantly around the corner in the next 6 months for the past 6 years.

>are mostly constrained by regulatory and major capital.

Ah yeah, those pesky regulations about *checks notes*… not killing people. Just like that millionaire "innovator" that got himself and others killed with his carbon fiber submarine who thought he could innovate his way around regulations and engineering process build around decades of accidents and deaths at sea.

Maybe stuff like this shouldn't be left to the move-fast-and-break-things crowd.

[grobbyy]

Your notes are quite wrong. Most regulations are not about not killing people with checks notes state-of-the-art-1970-technology.

This is even more true in zoning. There are much better ways to build homes possible, but not when a regulation is phrased in terms of distance between wooden stuffs, rather than safety and durability.

Economies of scale continue to mean that entrenched technologies get used.

Pilot licensing is especially onerous, where control systems allow flight to be a lot simpler, and a lot of very hard-to-fly technologies (like autogyros) can't be brought to mass scale not due to technology but simply due to regulation.