cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/36069403
cross-posted from: https://lemy.lol/post/52477761
And thus the reason we don’t have flying cars. That was two. Imagine the flaming hell that would be raining down if we had commute traffic numbers in the sky.
We don’t have flying cars because technology has not progressed enough to make it economically viable for the masses.
We don’t have flying cars because people are fucking dumb, and because the viable options are loud as hell.
We absolutely have the technology, and if there were a drive to make it affordable there would be more significant research into doing so.
To do a flying car, you need to simulate friction in the air, with significant enough force to prevent colision, while also maintaining low enough noise pollution to be acceptable to the average citizens. This second part is why we don’t have Personal helicopters, despite aircraft being relatively affordable (in my cursory search I found two Helicopters less than 200K, one barely more than 100k, if there were significant drive to make them mainstream for the public they’d presumably be much cheaper, benefitting from economies of scale.)
Additionally, how do we as a society handle ATC for flying cars? Emergency stops? Impromptu repairs? Birds in the props‽
I’m not trying to naysay the retrofuturistic image we all want for the world. I am saying it probably shouldn’t include flying cars. Especially if they’re just Personal quadcopters.
We don’t need cars, nobody has even built highways or gas stations or traffic cops yet.
This sounds like the person raving against personal computers in the 50’s, how “no-one will ever need or want one.”
And here I am sitting on the shitter with one that fits in my pocket.
Imagine trying to explain to someone just 40 years ago that I now have light bulbs which can sense motion in addition to being voice-controlled and full RGB. 80’s interior designers would go bonkers for these.
I don’t think these will replace normal traffic anytime soon but niche rescue vehicles or smth, perhaps. Also maybe we’re just at the awkward point between quadcopters and Star Wars style jets? The jets are just so much more aesthetic.
People can’t even handle a zip merge, da fuck we need flying cars for, lmao, another technobro invention that only thinks about the individual and not the wider effect on society
The cars are autonomous, we need them because people can’t even manage a zip merge.
Know what can be automated a lot easier than cars or planes, and can carry orders of magnitude more people with much less fuel usage? Fucking trains.
Not the air show. Just a rehearsal. One vehicle went up into flames. No deaths, one seriously injured.
Saved you a click.
Eh, not exactly. I’m curious as to what sort of a contraption it is.
Here. Saved the third guy a click.
So they’re like… low-altitude helicopters?
That’s always been the idea behind flying cars.
The ones that turn into planes are just planes that can be driven around a little easier than a normal plane.
If you want flying cars to work in a real city, they need VTOL capabilities.
If you want flying cars to work in a real city, they need VTOL capabilities.
A proper flying car would also have rolling capabilities
Just in case anyone was wondering why we don’t do that.
Now imagine hundreds of them populating the skies over a densely populated city, just to carry a few hundred rich people around.
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Yes, and how many helicopters fly regular passengers over your city?
There’s a reason these are speciality vehicles for speciality operations, and not a generic form of transport used all the time.
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When you say it like that, it sounds better in some ways and worse in others.
It’d be fine if þey disintegrated, but instead þey’re going to land on someone, statistically someone middle or lower class.
I’m amused by people constantly downvoting you.
Me too
Not flying cars. Didn’t even have wheels. Just hexacopters
Wait? So they are called “flying cars” but if none of a cars functionality?
The marketing does all the heavy lifting
The “car” in question:
That’s a better cyber truck than the cyber truck
That looks fucking awesome
Does it though?
Yes. Not for the streets but for the arctic!
