Flying cars will never be a thing

[Venom]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy4AFQzrcm8

People can barely be trusted with normal cars or planes.

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BTTF lied to us all as in 2015 we was supposed to have flying cars.

[C4Warr10r]

Yeah, but they're trusted all the same. Ever tried flying a helicopter? It's not easy piloting a craft that wants to spin and crash. People still get to pilot those, including some that run into airliners.

Ultimately, it's just a matter of practicality outweighing risk. If there is a demand for flying cars, and they can be made more or less safe, whilst being affordable and profitable, they will show up. More stable designs like quad-copter or hexa-copters are relatively easy to fly, and can even use AI assistance, though the size and fuel efficiency of the models precludes driving down most roads.

I don't see this particular model doing well for now, but something similar you can park in your driveway, or within a parking garage, might be feasible for some commuters. Again, the ability to drive any significant distance is a concern, and of course, these things aren't going to be hovering over traffic with ground-effect lift. Just imagine the complaints about FOD hitting cars or the ability of the control system to adjust for semi-trucks every three cars or so, before hitting an overpass. I will believe that technology is there when I see it work consistently.

[Jackie Daytona]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Venom:

Flying cars will never be a thing

People can barely be trusted with normal cars or planes.

Correct.

Current technology exists for flying cars.

Oprindeligt skrevet af C4Warr10r:

Ultimately, it's just a matter of practicality outweighing risk. If there is a demand for flying cars, and they can be made more or less safe, whilst being affordable and profitable, they will show up.

Nope.

There is literally no government on earth that will accept any argument that "Any normal person can jump in a car and fly anywhere." No chance. Because it gives up control.

Control of borders. Control of airspace. Control of passports. Blah, blah blah.

Oh, and the aerospace industry. Which has such a stranglehold on the U.S. government that there's a 0% chance they'd ever let a civilian fly their own craft. Because there'd no longer be a need for their gigantic fuel-guzzling planes. From which they make a lot of money. That, and the secret fighter jets they make, too.

Flying cars have a demand. It's the systems that prevents it from ever happening.

[eram]

people cant be trusted on the road let alone the skies

[skOsH♥]

I like those people that use those rotocopters or whatever they are. Essentially it looks like a giant fan with a glider and seat attached

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let me give you a little economics lesson why you should NOT want flying cars :

we already have flying cars.. they are called helicopters, (and yes drones are helicopters too) but they are unpractical for common use.

why? well :

the main difference between a flying and rolling object is one needs to constant accelerate a little to combat friction which is proportional to its current speed..
the other needs to constant accelerate to combat gravity.. which is a static power.

gravity is a much greater force, and thus the energy needed to power a flying car is much greater.

and using more energy to do the same task would decrease the economy.

in its most basic the economy is all about energy, from muscle power to fuel to electricity to chemical processes, all can be expressed as Joulles.
Economics : you convert what you have and desire less, into a what you want and desire more.
in simple fysics : converston from one shape or state into another consumes energy..

Energy at least in a form we can utilise is still a very limited commodity itself, so the only way the economy can grow is by finding ways to expand the amount of energy available or use less of it to do the same thing.

increasing the amount proves to be much harder of those two, and we are nowhere close to limitless energy. (limitless energy being a finite amount that is larger than demand "more than you could spend")

if you have more energy than is needed to satisfy everybodies demand than there would be no more incentive towards efficiency.
we call that post-scarcity.

but we don't have that energy is very scarse and even if we have more of it, its still not even close to matching demand.

so the economy no matter how much you increase energy production will favor an efficient design over an inefficient one.

just as in physics everything spirals towards perfect entropy.. so in economics everything likes to spiral toward perfect distribution of energy everything using as close to 0 energy.. and the size of the economy nearing infinity.

in cases economy moves against efficiency.. its called a market disturbance and thats not a good thing.

in laymens terms :
if you want flying cars instead of normal you need to have less cars or less other stuff.
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people prefer having the other stuff and a normal car over a flying car.
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so the only way they have both is if others have no more cars AND less stuff.
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basicly you distribute the energy alocation.. the econony more unfairly..

those others wont like that so they will resist this and try to restore balance.
**you will than have to opress those others to prevent them from doing that.

as such a world with flying cars will have less freedom, less prosperity and it be far more uneven spread.
meaning most likely you be poorer and have no car at all so that an elite class having the flying cars..
not what you should desire..

[Netaris]

Well, from my point of view the main problem isn't trust, it's both cost and air trafic rules. I think it's easier and more cost effective to dig tunnels or build elevated roads on top of ground ones.

Also, today's cars are way too heavy and big, we could improve the situation by making lighter and smaller cars. And you know what's easier to do with lighter cars ? Automatic parking systems.

[Edward Von Worms]

you guys can be really dry sometimes

[vkobe]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Venom:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy4AFQzrcm8

People can barely be trusted with normal cars or planes.

yes i know that since cloudpunk, dam between skyscrapper and other flying car 😂

[💥]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Venom:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy4AFQzrcm8

People can barely be trusted with normal cars or planes.

Kamikaze terrorist flying cars all over Europe.

[Alliesaurus]

What's the point of flying cars when we have roads? In some woodlands here there are ancient roads that have been used since the dark ages, they are so old.

[pants]

The perfect moment for flying cars to emerge: while the FAA is totally ♥♥♥♥♥♥

[Vinegaroon]

Well they exist but they are not really practical

[De Hollandse Ezel]

all 1 line responce? nobody complimenting or liking the economy lesson?

[SHAZBOT]

more likely ai will advance suspension systems so much that we will be able to use rock hard 150psi tires, saving fuel mileage, and in turn, saving the planet.

flying cars wont even be necessary