Remember when people thought there will be flying cars in the future?

[Just Simple]

I completely forgot about the concept of flying cars until recently, I mean, there were companies that tried to make flying cars, but most (if not all) of those companies seem to no longer doing anything or gone bankrupt, but tbh I'm glad flying cars aren't common, because flying cars would probably have more safety issues than actual cars...

[mr_raze]

PROTIP: any car can be easily converted into a flying car with the help of a simple cliff!

[Q-T_3.14.exe]

mr_raze の投稿を引用：

PROTIP: any car can be easily converted into a flying car with the help of a simple cliff!

Or enough dynamite.

[BlackBloodGhost]

You see, I still want to know: If we get flying cars, do we need a driving license, pilots license or both? A pilots license can become very expensive.

[Apollo702]

They already invented it almost 100 years ago(1928.)


It's called the helicopter.

[UrbanMech]

BlackBloodRum の投稿を引用：

You see, I still want to know: If we get flying cars, do we need a driving license, pilots license or both? A pilots license can become very expensive.

Going to need a C class pilot license.

[ṼṏẌṏḭḊ]

Most people can't even drive road vehicles safely. Imagine the chaos if we gave those idiots a chance to fly.

[76561198356019466]

What are you talking about? There are flying cars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqIRCcWqKJY

[Just Simple]

BlackBloodRum の投稿を引用：

You see, I still want to know: If we get flying cars, do we need a driving license, pilots license or both? A pilots license can become very expensive.

Probably both tbh

[OoOoOoooOOoOoorgle]

Yeah I think anyone who knew anything about how airspace works, already knew this was basically never going to happen.

Whether you can make a competent design is not the problem. The problem is, look at the statistics around driving and accidents. Now apply those same statistics to a scenario where these drivers are instead driving what essentially works out to ballistic missiles with a very light payload.

Anyone with a brain will go, "yeah no, ♥♥♥♥ that."

[WhispersOfTheWind]

They could probably invent, design make like produce them and on mass but it's just perhaps with the advent of such ... things, there will be new challenges and obstacles presented.

Hurdles to overcome, like.

Imagine if everyone had an electric car.

Now imagine the resource cost of providing every or at last every working person with one and then on the other side as a consequence of such an action the Earth runs out of resources as a hypothetical example where people would claim that it's more beneficial for the environment while it's really not and also this sort of shows in a parallel sense why the fossil fuel cars haven't been rooted out.

Electric cars have been around at least since "conventional" cars have been invented or implemented.

Because it's not as simple as say going like, here we have a new method let's just implement it and wing it and go with it and see where it goes, or alternatively stating everything will be all right if we just "override" or replace a method that's been sort of tried and true or (is) conventional in that sense.

In this way asking why we don't have flying cars, as for instance asking for why do cars brake down, why do we need mechanics or why would we need them is just like wondering about, I think: why not everyone takes a plane for their commute.

I tend to think of the moral of the story or the topic here being something along the lines of;

Some things? Sometimes; probably, all things always, not likely. Because...

Because the world is full of these wonderful ideas. In theory.

[Fried Brains]

Preventing accidents is why they were / are working on automated pilotless vehicles

[Devsman]

I could never figure out where they were supposed to find all that energy. I guess it wasn't something you thought about 70 or so years ago.

[Your_White_Knight]

Just Simple の投稿を引用：

Remember when people thought there will be flying cars in the future?

I completely forgot about the concept of flying cars until recently, I mean, there were companies that tried to make flying cars, but most (if not all) of those companies seem to no longer doing anything or gone bankrupt, but tbh I'm glad flying cars aren't common, because flying cars would probably have more safety issues than actual cars...

Yes I do... and I'm still waiting for mine...

Welcome to scientists aren't as smart as they think they are.

I also remember watching T.V. and Space 1999 and the movie 2001 a Space Odyssey...

The future isn't what it use to be.

[skOsH♥]

"How to control air traffic for millions of new vehicles", a book that's not out yet, or

The new bestselling book, "Help, I filed a flight plan and I just want to land at my house"

A lot easier to deal with navigation in two dimensions, not three. When it comes to road traffic

For instance, airplane pilots know to fly between a certain minimum cruising altitude (i think its 4000metres) and a max cruising altitude (about 10,050 m)

Know how many people who have road rage who make horrible driving decisions and put others at risk, not to mention themselves? The collateral damage of cars falling out of the sky and killing even more people that aren't even involved with the drivers, or...pilots

[Your_White_Knight]

d¢ の投稿を引用：

"How to control air traffic for millions of new vehicles", a book that's not out yet, or

The new bestselling book, "Help, I filed a flight plan and I just want to land at my house"

A lot easier to deal with navigation in two dimensions, not three. When it comes to road traffic

For instance, airplane pilots know to fly between a certain minimum cruising altitude (i think its 4000metres) and a max cruising altitude (about 10,050 m)

Know how many people who have road rage who make horrible driving decisions and put others at risk, not to mention themselves? The collateral damage of cars falling out of the sky and killing even more people that aren't even involved with the drivers, or...pilots

Well the point was "all" technology.. flying cars... how to keep them safe in the air... was ~all~ going to get to a point where it can be possible...

Kind of the way "driverless cars" are trying to be a thing now without them crashing all over the place ( as they are lol ) "driverless cars" isn't a new idea either, it's older then flying cars...