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
America can’t have 4-wheeled road-legal flying cars. 4-wheeled road legal cars must have airbags, but airbags are forbidden in aircraft.
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.
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.
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.
In fact we have the largest strategic reserve of idiots in the world! Even our president is an idiot!
Then, how about posing just a screeshot in a shitpost group or similar?
I’ve seen plenty of working flying cars since the late 90’s.
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.
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
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…
Whenever someone talks about practical, real-life flying cars, regulation is the first thing I think about, too. How will they be sure that some dipshit isn’t texting while flying over a school?
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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.
Unfortunately, we don’t monitor and regulate things here in the US anymore
Unless the thing in question is an immigrant
We do; but only gays, blacks, trans people, immigrants, and women.
And disabled people, and people with mental health needs.
Naw, we don’t regulate that. We would have to actually think about them first.
I’ve seen plenty too. They fly over sometimes. I believe they are called “helicopters”.
Someone’s 3D printer at home did some serious overtime there.
If that’s a “real car” then my left testicle is a genuine mild Italian meatball.
now that’s a spicy meatball
Only if I use the mint soap.
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.
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).
The last thing we need is flying cars, even if they do get a proper pilot’s license. You don’t exactly get air brakes while in the air, and at least in the USA, recently Elmo Turnip decided to cut flight safety…
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
I hear ya. Up until the rich end up crashing into everyday poor neighborhoods…
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I saw the article before somewhere on my newsfeed and didn’t click on it. Until we get some kind of new type of technology, flying cars will always be planes or drone that kinda looks like a car.
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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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There’s no way this thing survives any sort of crash test.
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Ha, it’s total crap. I watched video news about it.
the safety of the actual car is good enough for consumers
This is a revealing statement.
That statement is good enough for you
I can see it’s little gocart tricycle wheels from here ahahahahahahahahahahahaha
