Comment on Watch: A real-life flying car takes to the skies

Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• veeesix@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’ve already seen how ordinary people drive in two dimensions. Three dimensions is an impossible ask.

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  • 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    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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  • DudeDudenson@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    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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    • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      We’ve basically done that with flight patterns for aircraft in busy areas right now, so it makes sense.

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• wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’ve seen plenty too. They fly over sometimes. I believe they are called “helicopters”.

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• Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Unfortunately, we don’t monitor and regulate things here in the US anymore

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  • OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Unless the thing in question is an immigrant

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    We do; but only gays, blacks, trans people, and women.

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    • Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      And disabled people, and people with mental health needs.

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      • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Naw, we don’t regulate that. We would have to actually think about them first.

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• anindefinitearticle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  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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