The flying car completes first ever inter-city flight (Official Video)

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• rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We have had legit flying cars for generations, they are called “helicopters” and most people can’t afford or safely pilot one.

  If you think the classic sci-fi “in the future we’ll all be using flying cars and it’ll be awesome” thing is a good idea, just try to realistically imagine how crappy life would be for us all if you and every idiot you fight with in traffic every day had a helicopter.

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  • knobbysideup@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You can’t drive a helicopter down the freeway. You can’t land one just anywhere.

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    • snooggums@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You can't with this car plane either, a runway that gives room for the wings and tail to extend AND to be out while moving forward up to speed or landing will be necessary.

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    • meco03211@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not with that attitude!

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    • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Why would flying cars be easier to land anywhere than a helicopter is? This is exactly why flying cars are impractical.

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  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If they were driven by competent AI, it could be feasible with a slew of new safety regulations in specified areas of the country/world.

    But we aren’t even there yet with cars. You could absolutely argue some companies are very close, though! 100% not Tesla at any stretch of the imagination, but others have been putting the work in for over a decade with advanced technologies and countless hours of testing.

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    • rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The competency of the AI is key. Maybe we’ll be there in another generation or two, but I’m not inspired with much confidence while even the big celebrated AI models still work like crap and can’t be trusted with actual human safety.

      Also, accidents will always happen no matter what. On a 2D road a crash can be very tragic, but the area of effect is way limited compared to an equivalent car crash happening in the air causing human and machine parts to rain down dangerously onto an entire neighborhood and the people in it. Even under some imaginary complete and flawless AI control, any airborne “road” will always be a hazard to whatever’s underneath it.

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  • Tatters@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How is a helicopter remotely like a car?

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    • rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Putting aside the different principles behind how they propel themselves through space, the basic concept of a helicopter and a car are quite similar.

      • It’s a metal box with machinery, windows, and doors.
      • You open a door and get in at the start of your trip.
      • You sit at the controls, which you are required to undergo training to use properly and lawfully.
      • Other passengers can sit in the rest of the seats and come along with you on the trip.
      • You activate the machinery and make the box move where you want, maneuvering along paths and around obstacles.
      • At the end of the trip you stop the box in a safe place, switch off the machinery, and get out.

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    • hibbfd@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      maybe they are talking about the helicopters you can drive around in too. they don't have big rotors on top, just basically a little fan in the front to cool the radiator when not in flight mode.

      oh wait I'm thinking of a car

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• funchords@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This video has 7.6M views and was posted 2 years ago

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• Geek_King@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sir, that is a car shaped aeroplane. Nothing about that is like the flying cars envisioned by the likes of The Jetsons.

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  • Tigbitties@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I thought the same thing until the wings got all tucked in there and it hit the highway. I mean, you can park it in your driveway. It still needs a runway but it's the closest I've seen. It's more of a plane that turns into a car.

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    • Geek_King@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The driving part isn’t as important as being able to take off vertically. Needing a runway makes it the worlds only airplane you can drive to the airpoint to take off with, not as convenient as the flying cars we’ve been promised.

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• QHC@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I will just never understand how so many people look at the terrible state of ground-based traffic and think that doing that but in the sky will somehow be better.

  If you need a more direct example, just think about this the next time you see a broken down car o the side of the highway on an otherwise pleasant day, then think “what if whatever happened to that vehicle was the same, but 5,000 feet in the air?”

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• vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  it’s a plane. calling it a “flying car” doesn’t change the fact it walks, talks and quacks like a plane

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• bstix@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Great. Let’s move the traffic jam into the air.

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• angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Cool to watch, will never be a mass market product.

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• skymtf@pricefield.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Flying cars are danger to everyone, cars and driving suck enough! Please don’t let this happen in our skies. What if someone wrecked one into my house and killed me.

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• LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Cars suck and flying cars will probably also suck. No thanks.

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• CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This id just useless.

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• Poob@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Airplane*

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  • citrusface@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It literally turns into a car at the end of the video and drives out of the airport.

    It’s a flying car.

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    • Poob@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Retractable wings doesn’t change the fact it uses airplane technology to fly

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  • cyberpunk007@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thought the same then I skipped like half way through the video and saw the wings fold in and it drive around.

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• TwinTusks@outpost.zeuslink.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I was expecting some sort of hovercar …

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    • Terevos@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Same

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