Comment on The World's First Mass-Produced Flying Car Is Here and It Costs $1 Million
will_a113@lemm.ee 22 hours agoThere might be a lot more millionaires than before, but it’d still be a much smaller number who could drop $1M on a flying car.
Comment on The World's First Mass-Produced Flying Car Is Here and It Costs $1 Million
will_a113@lemm.ee 22 hours agoThere might be a lot more millionaires than before, but it’d still be a much smaller number who could drop $1M on a flying car.
tonyn@lemmy.ml 22 hours ago
It’s cheaper than a private jet and there are LOADS of them buzzing around polluting the skies.
jqubed@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Way more expensive than most private aircraft, though.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I’m still of an opinion that private aircraft is for sports and for farmers and for doctors\firefighters\rescuers in remote areas like rural Siberia. And, of course, for people wiping their ass with money.
It’s unfortunately not the same as having a spaceship in some sci-fi universe. The word “ship” hints why, the legal infrastructure, the expenses and most of all required qualifications make flying a plane more demanding.
I don’t see how making a weird car-like plane changes that.
jqubed@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
This looks to me like yet another in a surprisingly long line of airplanes that are also designed to be driven on roads in someway, but they’re basically all noticeably worse at either task than vehicles designed specifically for one of those tasks. It also invariably ends up more expensive than two specialized vehicles, so there’s never really any reason to build these.
TheLemming@lemm.ee 19 hours ago
That may be true, but private jets are significantly more practical than this. If you’ve got private jet money, you can just afford to buy a jet and a decent car at your destination.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
it has the range of a cessna skyhawk ($400k-$500 aircraft), not a private jet