Watch: A real-life flying car takes to the skies
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I’ve already seen how ordinary people drive in two dimensions. Three dimensions is an impossible ask.
So now we have to look both ways AND up to make sure some moron doesnt drop a car on my head?
Fuck that noise...
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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.
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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.
Please no flying cars. Please no. The jetsons made it look cool, but that was a cartoon made in the days before 9/11 and cell phones happened.
Now imagine some distracted driver, watching a tiktok while driving, and oops, they did another 9/11.
Now imagine that happens every week. Not because of terrorists, but because of idiots! WE HAVE A LOT OF IDIOTS IN THIS COUNTRY!!!!
......please no.
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Please no flying cars. Please no. The jetsons made it look cool, but that was a cartoon made in the days before 9/11 and cell phones happened.
Now imagine some distracted driver, watching a tiktok while driving, and oops, they did another 9/11.
Now imagine that happens every week. Not because of terrorists, but because of idiots! WE HAVE A LOT OF IDIOTS IN THIS COUNTRY!!!!
......please no.
Cars crash into buildings all the time. Even if you took the largest consumer car and “drove” it as fast as possible into the side of a skyscraper, you wouldn’t be able to cause anything close to another 9/11.
That said, these are terrible for other reasons.
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If that's a "real car" then my left testicle is a genuine mild Italian meatball.
It’s a big ass drone with a car shape 3D printed over top of it
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I’ve already seen how ordinary people drive in two dimensions. Three dimensions is an impossible ask.
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
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Please no flying cars. Please no. The jetsons made it look cool, but that was a cartoon made in the days before 9/11 and cell phones happened.
Now imagine some distracted driver, watching a tiktok while driving, and oops, they did another 9/11.
Now imagine that happens every week. Not because of terrorists, but because of idiots! WE HAVE A LOT OF IDIOTS IN THIS COUNTRY!!!!
......please no.
Why would you assume these would be driven?
This looks like a Hollywood special effect reel from the 1950s. We are close to having fully autonomous vehicles already. Any practical application of this couldn't happen for at least another 20years. If we are still driving our own vehicles by then we are all pretty fucked already. -
Please no flying cars. Please no. The jetsons made it look cool, but that was a cartoon made in the days before 9/11 and cell phones happened.
Now imagine some distracted driver, watching a tiktok while driving, and oops, they did another 9/11.
Now imagine that happens every week. Not because of terrorists, but because of idiots! WE HAVE A LOT OF IDIOTS IN THIS COUNTRY!!!!
......please no.
In fact we have the largest strategic reserve of idiots in the world! Even our president is an idiot!
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Please no flying cars. Please no. The jetsons made it look cool, but that was a cartoon made in the days before 9/11 and cell phones happened.
Now imagine some distracted driver, watching a tiktok while driving, and oops, they did another 9/11.
Now imagine that happens every week. Not because of terrorists, but because of idiots! WE HAVE A LOT OF IDIOTS IN THIS COUNTRY!!!!
......please no.
Pfft, whatever. Gasoline can't melt steal beams.
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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.
America can't have 4-wheeled road-legal flying cars. 4-wheeled road legal cars must have airbags, but aircraft are forbidden in aircraft.
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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.
Someone's 3D printer at home did some serious overtime there.
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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.
