Very similar design already used by Wing. I'm guessing they did a fair bit of analysis and modeling of the cost, range, complexity, safety, etc. etc. tradeoffs before settling on what they're using currently.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing_Aviation#/media/File:Wing...
Two impressive things about Wing's design are 1) load paths are designed to break the airframe in controlled ways 2) the 4 blade props have alternating shorter and longer blades for quieter aeroacoustics
Adam Savage did a video tour of their factory recently, worth a watch
> Adam Savage did a video tour of their factory recently, worth a watch
Thanks! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BXm6dTHvY0
I'm a big Waymo and Wing fan, but hadn't seen that.
It's great, check out the Slo Mo guys video from that same tour for the prop smoke vortex https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yaAFLpLmVg
