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

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Submitted ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Quilotoa@lemmy.ca⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/the-worlds-first-mass-produced-flying-car-is-here-and-it-costs-1-million/

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  • Montreal_Metro@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    It’s called a plane.

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  • HakunaHafada@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I feel like “mass-produced” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Also, insurance is going to be insane.

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    • Jimmycakes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You don’t get insurance on these

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  • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Mass-Produced

    I want to see these masses who can pay the million :)

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    • tonyn@lemmy.ml ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      A million doesn’t get you what it used to, and you’d be shocked at how many quiet millionaires there are out there.

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      • will_a113@lemm.ee ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        There 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.

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      • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        OK. Yes, then I want to get this shock :)

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    • jonne@infosec.pub ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      A million and get a pilot licence.

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      • HK65@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I mean you can get a licence for 20-30k, the maintenance is deadly on a plane though, you could buy a very nice car each year on that money.

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  • NarrativeBear@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Give me a intercity train or intercity tram any day.

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  • Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s not a flying car. It’s an airplane.

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    • WanderingThoughts@europe.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s by definition trying to merge two opposite specs into one vehicle using the worst aspects of the two.

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  • vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    a plane. A flying car is called a plane.

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    • Cort@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I bet it handles like a boat on the roads though.

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    • nao@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      A plane that looks a bit like a car.

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  • 5too@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “The AirCar fulfills a lifelong dream to bring the freedom of flight into the hands of everyday people.”

    The price? Between $800,000 and $1 million, depending on specs.

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    • TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Don’t forget the cost and time investment in getting your pilots licence.

      Also there is no way this is going to be legal to drive on public roads in most countries - just look at the massive tail boom that sticks out. This is just a fancy aircraft for people that want an overcomplicated Cessna.

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      • CandleTiger@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The tail boom is massive compared to a sports car but I think the folded-up package looks not bigger than a giant American SUV.

        Speaking as one who routinely has trouble parking a motor home and driving over curbs with it — this big awkward-looking car does not compete with motor homes for the awkwardness prize.

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      • HiTekRedNek@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        What’s crazy is you can build a kit plane for less than what this costs, and flying a kit plane does NOT need a pilot license in the US.

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      • jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I couldn’t find specs skimming through the article, but it doesn’t look like it would fit in any normal parking space. Driving around might be as unwieldy as a motorhome or box truck, without the height advantage when you inevitably drive over a curb while turning. Doing that might also make it un-airworthy.

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    • resipsaloquitur@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Do you see what happens, Larry?

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  • Etterra@discuss.online ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t trust must drivers on roads, much less the air. No good will come of this.

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    • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I am driving through a slight detour on my commute, it’s still 3 lanes but with a slight bend, motherfuckers can’t even keep their car in their fucking lane, almost hit 3 people this morning, fuckers can’t drive

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      • j4yt33@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        A truly universal experience

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Damn, we really got flying cars before

    1. GTA 6
    2. Elder Scrolls 6
    3. Half Life 3 (but barely? Hopefully?)
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  • Glifted@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There are street legal autogyros that are a lot cheaper and make more sense as a crossover vehicle

    youtu.be/8VKfqzmLohM

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  • Libra@lemmy.ml ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, I too once thought flying cars were the best idea since sliced bread. I’ve since grown up and realized that they’re just airplanes with extra steps, cause it’s not like you’re ever going to be able to land it on a highway or whatever. It will always be cheaper to just buy an airplane and a car and use one to get to the other.

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    • cabbage@piefed.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I guess the problem is that if you take your car to the plane, then your plane somewhere else, suddenly you don't have your car. And then if you drive somewhere else you don't have your plane any more.

      I think it's pretty obvious that rental cars and commercial flights make a lot more sense for most scenarios. But I guess it's possible to imagine scenarios where this vehicle makes sense, either for extensive round trips or for places where car rentals don't exist but the roads are nevertheless pretty good.

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      • Libra@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah I was gonna say, there’s a whole-ass rental car industry exactly for that kind of purpose. But this isn’t the sort of thing you buy because it ‘makes sense’, you buy it because it’s cool and you have fuck-you money so that’s enough of a reason.

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    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s also that usual cars don’t fall down on someone’s head. And can just stay on one place for traffic jams.

      Not possible until Star Wars style repulsors are created, and even then TBH not that cool.

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  • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Or you could buy a Skyhawk, three Toyota Camrys and fuel for a year.

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  • thatradomguy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’d rather have a FLDSMDFR. Sorry not sorry. People already drive like ass on the road. I don’t need that in the sky.

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  • Sugar_Spark@lemm.ee ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sweet. We need more ways for the 1% to kill themselves.

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  • Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Okay I will admit it was impressive to see how they solved where to stow the wings and essentially shrink the airplane footprint to a long car footprint, but who is this for? Who out there has $1mil to blow and is like, “I have to drive directly from the tarmac to my hotel”?

    This thing needs 300m of runway in its airplane form to get airborne, so forget city or even suburban takeoffs. And you’re not going to just drive this thing around. At the end of the day, this is still a (very fancy) plane that drives.

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      If it can handle a grass field, those are everywhere. OTOH, be cheaper and easier to fly a Cessna and spatter cars around at your destinations.

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  • humanspiral@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    At Shanghai 2025 car show, there were at least 5 flying car models from major auto players.

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  • hakunawazo@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Looks a bit like in “The Man With The Golden Gun”
    Image

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  • Melonpoly@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What problem does this solve? And is that problem worth all the negatives this brings?

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    • urquell@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No

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  • ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If wings don’t fold, fold your brain.

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  • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s not the “flying car” anyone envisioned or wanted. That’s just an airplane but a lot shittier.

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