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06-16-2019, 10:41 AM
The thing about flying cars is, everyone thinks the idea is awesome; however, we still haven't built a workable one, even after decades of trying. Sometimes they prove too expensive, or they'll try to be a car and a plane (and end up being crap at both).
And then there's the question of whether regulators will even approve it. I've always thought that, if cars had never existed and they were invented today, then there's no way they'd get past modern-day health and safety legislators. I mean, we're talking about a fast metal box that anyone can take anywhere on the roads, and most of them are re-fuelled by filling them with a flammable liquid. Flying cars have it even worse from this point of view, because the proposition then becomes "anyone takes it where they want in the air" - and this Uber one has "fully automated with no pilot" on top of that.
So, yeah: even if this does take off and does start carrying passengers, it looks like something that only the super-rich will be able to use, at least for the first few years. But, I guess we'll see .
And then there's the question of whether regulators will even approve it. I've always thought that, if cars had never existed and they were invented today, then there's no way they'd get past modern-day health and safety legislators. I mean, we're talking about a fast metal box that anyone can take anywhere on the roads, and most of them are re-fuelled by filling them with a flammable liquid. Flying cars have it even worse from this point of view, because the proposition then becomes "anyone takes it where they want in the air" - and this Uber one has "fully automated with no pilot" on top of that.
So, yeah: even if this does take off and does start carrying passengers, it looks like something that only the super-rich will be able to use, at least for the first few years. But, I guess we'll see .
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06-16-2019, 12:23 PM
(06-16-2019, 10:41 AM)Kyng Wrote: The thing about flying cars is, everyone thinks the idea is awesome; however, we still haven't built a workable one, even after decades of trying. Sometimes they prove too expensive, or they'll try to be a car and a plane (and end up being crap at both).
The real thing about flying cars is, take the drivers you see every day now put them in the air....
That is not even to point out the disaster of say a micro burst (Which have brought down large planes) in a heavy trafficked area, if there were flying cars, and other meteorological conditions.
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06-16-2019, 01:55 PM
No, I'll pass on that. Then again I have a fear of heights. Knowing them though, they'd probably charge a lot more than taking people from A to B on ground.
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