Federal pilot program launches flying cars in 8 U.S. regions summer 2026

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• org@lemmy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Hopefully this will encourage billionaires to pile in and crash. Like a submarine.

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  • goatinspace@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It only takes 4 at a time

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    • org@lemmy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Every little bit counts. 😇

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    • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Like that submarine.

      Maybe it can crash into them while being full of them. Efficient way to up the numbers.

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• Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  oh God, please no. We can’t even manage driving on one-way roads and you want us to take to the skies as well.

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  • redditmademedoit@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    you want us to take to the skies

    Lol you think you’re getting one?

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    • Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I wouldn’t want one, I didn’t become a pilot for a reason, no interest in personal or commercial flight

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  • catdog@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Adding a third dimension to travel introduces a lot of additional intersections. Once the initial supply and demand wobble irons out, air travel will lead to additional traffic, not less.

    It’s a bad idea. And we haven’t even mentioned air and sound pollution yet.

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• nymnympseudonym@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  In a competent administration, this would be inspiring.

  With the current set of apparatchiks, this is terrifying.

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  • Tahl_eN@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The new aircraft “are going to make the airspace far more interesting…"

    I don’t want the airspace over my head “interesting,” I want it boring.

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    • PattyMcB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      John de Lancy would care to make things spicier

      IYKYK

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  • Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Honestly, even in a competent administration, this scares me because of the fact that it’s bypassing the certification process altogether. We’ve already seen the danger caused with certified aircrafts, and now you’re telling me you want to bypass the certification process altogether.

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  • dan1101@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I don’t know, I think it’s bad enough companies have been beta testing self driving cars on public roads where the rest of us need to have human intelligence and pass a driver’s test.

    Now we will have flying cars crashing down on our houses.

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    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Laws under capitalism are like religion; for controlling the peasants. As long as you commit crime for-profit against the peasantry, behind the liability shield of a corporation, you will be protected by the state.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    In a competent administration, this would be inspiring.

    No it wouldn’t. It’s always been a dumb idea to get around public mass transit.

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• culprit@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Some promise totally autonomous trips.

  a handful of tech bro billionaires on a test flight + one aspiring hacker = the next Luigi

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  • Blackfeathr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’ll likely be closer to Oceangate Titan 2.0. Their pride will be their undoing, but in the air this time.

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• PattyMcB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  “Not fully FAA certified” lol

  Around the same time we have fully autonomous driving teslas, right?

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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Sucks to be in Texas, the Silicon Valley alpha testing hub of the US.

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