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.
And helicopters are loud AF. If you think motorcycles are annoyingly noisy imagine peak hour with helicopters.
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.
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.
Please just give us good public transport, busses, trains, please…
we dont and never have needed flying cars its a fucking dumb idea and always has been.
We’re going to see more of this shit as wealth inequality continues to balloon. The old logic that money was made selling the most products to the most people is eroding, money is now either made extracting rent from normal people or selling prohibitively expensive status symbols to an elite class with so much money they can piss it away endlessly.
It’s why the richest man in the world went from the man who sold the most things, to the man who sold the most prestigious cars, to the man who sells handbags.
Sir, that is a car shaped aeroplane. Nothing about that is like the flying cars envisioned by the likes of The Jetsons.
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.
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.
I will just never understand how so many people look at a broken down car on the side of the highway, then think “what if whatever happened to that vehicle was the same, but 5,000 feet in the air?”
This shit is just useless.
