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The flying car completes first ever inter-city flight (Official Video)
Submitted 9 months ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2tDOYkFCYo
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funchords@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
Geek_King@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Sir, that is a car shaped aeroplane. Nothing about that is like the flying cars envisioned by the likes of The Jetsons.
Tigbitties@kbin.social 9 months 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.
Geek_King@lemmy.world 9 months 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.
QHC@lemmy.world 9 months 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?”
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
it’s a plane. calling it a “flying car” doesn’t change the fact it walks, talks and quacks like a plane
bstix@feddit.dk 9 months ago
Great. Let’s move the traffic jam into the air.
angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 9 months ago
Cool to watch, will never be a mass market product.
skymtf@pricefield.org 9 months 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.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 9 months ago
Cars suck and flying cars will probably also suck. No thanks.
CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
This id just useless.
Poob@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Airplane*
citrusface@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It literally turns into a car at the end of the video and drives out of the airport.
It’s a flying car.
Poob@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Retractable wings doesn’t change the fact it uses airplane technology to fly
cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Thought the same then I skipped like half way through the video and saw the wings fold in and it drive around.
TwinTusks@outpost.zeuslink.net 9 months ago
I was expecting some sort of hovercar …
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rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 9 months 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.
knobbysideup@lemm.ee 9 months ago
You can’t drive a helicopter down the freeway. You can’t land one just anywhere.
snooggums@kbin.social 9 months 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.
meco03211@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Not with that attitude!
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 9 months ago
Why would flying cars be easier to land anywhere than a helicopter is? This is exactly why flying cars are impractical.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 9 months 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.
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 9 months 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.
Tatters@feddit.uk 9 months ago
How is a helicopter remotely like a car?
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 9 months 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.
hibbfd@kbin.social 9 months 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