Flying cars crash into each other at Chinese air show
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is that Gabriel Bell?
It's Benny Russell.
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They should try coding and algorithms.
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As long as it doesn’t go boing on the ground
Also shouldn't have a bombardier on board.
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the flying "car" in question. Just seems like a quadcopter to me, but I guess that's why I'm not in marketing.
Congratulations, you can't count to 6.
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Congratulations, you can't count to 6.
Is there something I'm missing? I only count 5 so it's a pentacopter.
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People have enough trouble driving on roads, which place at least some limits on what you can do with a vehicle. Give them a flying car with no limits on where they can go anywhere in the X, Y, and Z axes and all hell will break loose. This crash, with two experienced "drivers", is a perfect example, and they ostensibly knew what they were doing.
Let's say we all magically become able to not crash into each other at all. That's not going to make things much safer; car aren't built with the strict QC of airplanes, they're bound to have more failures.
When you have wheels, it's not all that problematic, with some luck you could even be unscathed after losing a wheel on the highway.
Once you're flying though? Anything happens and you're pretty much toast
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Is there something I'm missing? I only count 5 so it's a pentacopter.
Look through the cockpit
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My bet is that personal flying vehicles will happen and gradually spread --- probably not as a mass replacement for ground-based vehicles --- but it'll be fully-autonomous vehicles. It won't be Average Joe becoming a pilot.
EDIT: Well, okay, I mean, you can get personal flying vehicles today --- in the US, you don't need a license or anything to fly something like this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powered_parachute
...whereas you do to operate a car on public roads. Just not allowed to fly over built-up areas. But I'm talking about heavier vehicles.
I sure hope that's not true. Cars already are a nightmare of inefficiency and should ultimately be reserved to some very specific usecases -- giving access so flying pods to everyone is possibly the worst possible method of transportation ever thought of.
Not only for the environment, as those would be mighty inefficient, but also for safety; people love clowning on Boeing but letting the auto industry make aircrafts will give us a lot more to be anxious about.
Also, when a car fails, or a conductor has an emergency, in most cases the car just stops, we don't end up with a ton of steel tumbling down at 200km/h on buildings, random people and other flying vehicles
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Air travel is considered to be among the safest methods of travel.
.....but thats only because historically we only let experts operate those vehicles. You thought it was bad to drink and drive? Wait until uncle Randy has 250 hours logged to get a liscense, and he drinks and flies!
And also a huge QC culture. If we let the auto industry make aircrafts for the general public, we'll soon wish we were flying Boeing
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Is there something I'm missing? I only count 5 so it's a pentacopter.
There is another rotor hidden behind the cabin, you can barely see it though the window
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Air travel is considered to be among the safest methods of travel.
.....but thats only because historically we only let experts operate those vehicles. You thought it was bad to drink and drive? Wait until uncle Randy has 250 hours logged to get a liscense, and he drinks and flies!
That's just a normal day in Alaska.
