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Always found it funny that the vision of flying cars almost never included seatbelts and headrests.

@johndoherty487

Ай бұрын

Atleast Rick and Morty did.

Having tens of thousands of cars flying through the air over a city might be dystopic. It will be sky pollution.

Be patient heard Musk has one in R/D ???? As bad as ground drivers are just imagine them in the air !!! Thinking of an underground house now !!!

The fundamental complaint is that we don’t get this neat stuff for ‘reasons’. Basically, the reasons are physics is not kind to big stuff moving against gravity and at high speed. Physics is really is kind to small stuff moving fast (data and information). The flying car fantasy will be fantasy until a cheap, clean, and lightweight energy source is available. Even with that, a pilot’s license will be required. I see little or no possibility of anything to the scale described here for at least 40 years or more.

We can't live in the future by definition That's all, off to play my next gen console. Subbed! Good content, well presented, forgive my teasing 👌😉

When I saw Attack of the Clones in cinema, I wanted my dad and uncle to build a flying car, because they both are engineers. I wanted the family car to fly

We have them... Just still need better power plants and you do require a pilots license!

Considering how bad drivers of ground-bound cars are, I'm happy we don't have flying cars.

we could have flying cars, the technology is known here on Earth, just a small group of people decided not to share the technology or is using it for their own benefits. and it's not a conspiracy theory any more, just fact ;)

we have flying cars, they are called helicopters

@alexdonger5816

2 ай бұрын

Exactly they exist but not in the imaginatory flying car way that is depicted by early science fiction

@williamwalker39

2 ай бұрын

@@alexdonger5816 Roadable Blade Runner style flying cars are now possible. See my post at the top of the comments

the engien can be made to a big bomb thats why we dont have flying cars now

@10aDowningStreet

2 ай бұрын

Eh? Cars can be used as weapons too. It's more due to the costs having historically been prohibitively expensive, and the fact that about 90% of people (at least) lack the cognitive ability to safely drive a car even in 2 dimensions.

@loopernoodling

Ай бұрын

@@10aDowningStreet Even if they were powered by distilled water, if a one or two ton car were to fall from the sky (the 'reconstructions usually show them flying at just above a very high skyscraper height), it is going to seriously mess up whatever it lands on! And the idea that they won't fall from the sky is just plain stupid. Of course they will! Helicopters are a mature technology, and their pilots are highly trained, and they fall now and then. (And their blades help them to 'float' down - cars would not do this, they would plummet!) Like you say, most people can barely drive surface vehicles - are they going to want to spend years training to drive a mass-produced flying car? I suppose some sort of guidance system would be involved. So if self-driving cars ever become a thing (not a certainty), then those systems could be developed.

If Elon Musk can send rocket ships to the international space station totally autonomously, we can certainly build self-flying cars.

@10aDowningStreet

2 ай бұрын

Passenger jets can take off, fly and land themselves, cars can pretty much drive themselves most of the time. What we need now is for automation to take that next step, so we no longer need to rely on humans when automated systems fail, get confused or encounter situations they've not trained for/never encountered. Probably 90%+ people are incapable of driving cars safely in 2 dimensions, the amount of people capable of flying any vehicle safely must be a tiny fraction of 1%, so we really do need automation and AI to take that next step, to take all that work away from humans. Then these flying manned electric multirotors will fill the skies.

@DeanStephen

2 ай бұрын

@@10aDowningStreet It’s 90% of people under 30 who were raised in urban environments who are spatial idiots. I agree, they should walk. Most of them can barely manage that safely.