Comment on The World's First Mass-Produced Flying Car Is Here and It Costs $1 Million

• rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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