Watch: A real-life flying car takes to the skies
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Calling this thing a "real life flying" car is generous. This thing just looks like a mock-up at best and it didn't appear to even have a driver/pilot during the demo.
This thing will be bad in the air and bad on the ground.
It looks like how I drew cars when I was 5 years old (who am I kidding, it would probably still look like that if I attempted to draw one today).
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When will news media stop falling for this shit?
Oh, yes, when it stops generating clicks. I am part of the problem.
Then, how about posing just a screeshot in a shitpost group or similar?
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When will news media stop falling for this shit?
Oh, yes, when it stops generating clicks. I am part of the problem.
Ah there we go
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It’s a big ass drone with a car shape 3D printed over top of it
Precisely. A golf cart is more genuinely a car.
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America can't have 4-wheeled road-legal flying cars. 4-wheeled road legal cars must have airbags, but aircraft are forbidden in aircraft.
Easy, just eject them when you take off, and inject them when you land.
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When will news media stop falling for this shit?
Oh, yes, when it stops generating clicks. I am part of the problem.
It's a lightweight 3d printed exoskeleton of a car using drone like motors and fans. The journalist who went in person was not allowed to be close or watch someone get in or out of the vehicle. While in air it is pretty obvious there is no interior seating just what looks like 2 large fans on the bottom. To call this even a concept of a flying car is incorrect at best it's a custom drone.
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America can't have 4-wheeled road-legal flying cars. 4-wheeled road legal cars must have airbags, but aircraft are forbidden in aircraft.
Airbags are not forbidden in aircraft. They just haven't been considered to offer enough safety benfit for their weight and cost in most cases. That is starting to change though, and airbags integrated into aircraft seatbelts are becoming more common. They can be found in first class in a number of commercial aircraft, and are sold to be retrofitted into private planes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airplane_airbags
https://www.amsafe.com/product/airbag-restraint-systems/
There are many reasons I doubt this car will make it into commercial production, but the airbags will be OK.
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I always find it amusing when sci Fi games with flying cars have them still driving in imaginary floating highways, it's like they know they would regulate it into 2D autopilot sly roads somehow
We've basically done that with flight patterns for aircraft in busy areas right now, so it makes sense.
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Airbags are not forbidden in aircraft. They just haven't been considered to offer enough safety benfit for their weight and cost in most cases. That is starting to change though, and airbags integrated into aircraft seatbelts are becoming more common. They can be found in first class in a number of commercial aircraft, and are sold to be retrofitted into private planes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airplane_airbags
https://www.amsafe.com/product/airbag-restraint-systems/
There are many reasons I doubt this car will make it into commercial production, but the airbags will be OK.
TIL. I was regurgitating what I saw in a video a while back about the Switchblade, which was supposedly 3 wheeled because of the airbag thing.
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When will news media stop falling for this shit?
Oh, yes, when it stops generating clicks. I am part of the problem.
I've seen kites that looked more convincing. There are now some real, functional flying cars, although they are still far too expensive to be practical. This is not one of them.
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