Watch: A real-life flying car takes to the skies
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Word to the media: don't bother us with this shit until they have a working idea on how to monitor and regulate the shit so we can all have flying cars and not just one dude's stupid prototype. The hard thing isn't making a car that can fly. That shit is relatively easy. The hard part is figuring out how air traffic would work if everyone was up there. It's already a PITA and there aren't a helluva lot of planes compared to cars.
If they're all automated and coordinating, NASA has put a lot of effort into researching how to coordinate a swarm of airborne agents with diverse goals.. I'd imagine that these prototypes have gotten further development and a reality-collision as drone systems have been deployed and evolving in the Ukrainian theatre. The tech for this might actually finally be ready.
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Ha, it's total crap. I watched video news about it.
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When I was a kid I used to think it would be cool to have flying cars. As an adult I think about all the jets and helicopters and drones that already fly over my home and how annoying they are. The amount of noise of a fleet of cars taking off out of the neighborhood would make in the morning would be absolutely unbearable.
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Looking at the underside of this "car" shows there are no drive axles, wires or motors going to the wheels, making it just a weird-shaped helicopter with wheels for no reason.
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This video looks very fake. Were there no witnesses in this demonstration?
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As others have already mentioned, regulations. Air traffic is tightly-controlled, and for good reason. There aren't really any technical limitations to flying cars. Shit's just dangerous, especially by unqualified individuals and en masse.
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All the more reason for flying cars in the US:
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No flight safety
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So expensive only the rich can afford them
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We do; but only gays, blacks, trans people, immigrants, and women.
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If that's a "real car" then my left testicle is a genuine mild Italian meatball.
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I hear ya. Up until the rich end up crashing into everyday poor neighborhoods...
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And disabled people, and people with mental health needs.
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now that's a spicy meatball
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Naw, we don't regulate that. We would have to actually think about them first.
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Only if I use the mint soap.
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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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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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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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It’s a big ass drone with a car shape 3D printed over top of it
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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
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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. -
In fact we have the largest strategic reserve of idiots in the world! Even our president is an idiot!
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Pfft, whatever. Gasoline can't melt steal beams.
