I’ve always been afraid of being killed by a drunk driver, or dying while at work. Now both of those things can happen at the same time.
We have had flying car for decades now, its called a Helicopter
All I see is fully exposed propellers at groin/knee level.
Forget about a birdstrike, you hit ANYTHING and you aren’t taking off or landing.
Yes, what I need is ever more noise pollution.
People are so good at driving in two dimensions, I think we should add a third.
I’ve read the same promise 5 years ago.
And 20
And 50
It was big news 75 years ago too.
No, ain’t going to happen and stop trying to make it happen
Fetch…
The ground level weedwhacker blades could do double-duty clearing out brush (and pesky pedestrians).
When the chances of dying in a car are just too low… Get high!
https://www.ncesc.com/geographic-faq/are-car-accidents-a-leading-cause-of-death-in-america/
Even if the tech was perfect, they’d be far too loud. Drones are already pretty loud, but you wanna make em huge and everywhere? Ugh.
It’s not that we can’t do this that has kept it from happening yet. It’s that it’s never been practical.
Yeah, this just looks like they upsized a drone without actually solving any of the practical issues with flying cars.
As a drone hobbyist, this is absolutely terrifying
Jesus F. Christ the BS that gets posted and upvoted in this community is getting more ridiculously Chinese propagandist by the day. Freaking air taxis? Really? Germany has like a dozen of those dumpster fire startups that chew up subsidies like it‘s no tomorrow (because for them there really isn‘t).
I still don’t understand how helicopters are not flying cars.
If you want everyone to have a flying car, we should talk about everyone having a helicopter first so we can quickly come to the conclusion of why that’s a bad idea.
hovercraft, too.
You are 100% correct that helicopters and their issues are the exact reason why flying cars are a terrible idea for the general population. I even like to point them out as the same thing when people talk about flying cars. There are some technical differences between people’s image of a flying car, which is closer to a drone with the multiple lift producing drives than a singular giant spinning blade, although the little ones would be comparably dangerous in a crash.
That said, helicopters aren’t flying cars because you can’t drive them around on the ground.
The problem with a flying car for the general population is that people are already bad at navigating in 2D and that any technical failure in the air means a vehicle drops onto something and the average person is not going to do a proper checklist and rigid maintenance schedule on their private vehicle.
I would hope that by the time something like this launched to the general public, it would be a service rather than an expected purchase. Like self-driving-flying taxis.
It doesn’t make sense to have everyone owning their own when they will probably be largely autonomous to avoid issues with individuals driving them (not that everyone owning a car makes sense either, but I digress), so the maintenance shouldn’t be an issue either.
That is one of the many problems, yes.
It’s like hover craft, sure they work, but at what cost? Bicycles, now there’s a design one can roll with. There was an HPV, The Gossamer Alabatross, crossed the English Channel in '79. Is anybody riding them now? Do you see similar HPVs anywhere now? No!
That’s because you can get vaccinated against HPV.
Ah, yes, I see, allow me to disambiguate: Human Powered Vehicle
I have gotten to the point that when a scifi world is made futuristic by having… traffic jams in the sky, and futuristic cities absolutely must have magic sky cars in their skyline but there is ZERO thought towards futuristic mass transit I just shut it off.
We already have flying cars that people use as their primary vehicle, it is called living in the middle nowhere Alaska and owning a bush plane. The thing is, that is actually the only kind of situation where everyone owning a flying car makes sense, extreme isolation, huge empty distances and no roads.
The whole point of a city is NOT to need something like a flying car.
