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But no, I don't think it's possible until we figure out a new physics of flight that involves something other than the Bernoulli principle and Newton's 3rd law.
We need some kind of sci-fi type anti-grav tech that works on completely different principles.
Um...quadcopter?
Why does everybody think it either has to be an airplane or a Millenium Falcon?
people are horrible driving in 2 dimensions... hopefully they cant do it in 3
question of flying cars or not, people shouldnt be allowed to drive them for the most part
with how busy an airport is with hundreds of planes, imagine every traffic light with thousands of cars...
someone sees a line, decides they can fly up or down to skip line, and they die... they get impatient behind another, press the pedal to speed past them, stalls engine and they die... drives while texting and a wind knocks them around and they cant tell which direction is up, and they die...
see the trend when the public try to fly on their own without years of training? they die
people are horrible driving in 2 dimensions... hopefully they cant do it in 3
question of flying cars or not, people shouldnt be allowed to drive them for the most part
with how busy an airport is with hundreds of planes, imagine every traffic light with thousands of cars...
someone sees a line, decides they can fly up or down to skip line, and they die... they get impatient behind another, press the pedal to speed past them, stalls engine and they die... drives while texting and a wind knocks them around and they cant tell which direction is up, and they die...
see the trend when the public try to fly on their own without years of training? they die
It would be heavily regulated and restricted, it would not just a free for all.
I think eventually we will not need vehicles or transportation of any kind. I was just reading how one of the top 10 most groundbreaking technologies in the next 10 yrs (Popular Mechanics article), was the technology to email or text tangible objects...
According to the articles description of how this technology works, it sounds pretty close to teleportation! If they can pull this off with small tangible objects, its only a matter of time before someone will figure out a way to teleport people, materials, etc.
Just imagine if they could 'teleport' building supplies to the site, teleport food to where it is needed, teleport water, oil, to its destination...we would no longer need ships, trains, trucks, cars!
It would be heavily regulated and restricted, it would not just a free for all.
Then what's the point? "Car" implies large-scale individual and family transport, not a variation on a helicopter for those who can already afford such.
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Originally Posted by rstevens62
Just imagine if they could 'teleport' building supplies to the site, teleport food to where it is needed, teleport water, oil, to its destination...we would no longer need ships, trains, trucks, cars!
See what happens when you start talking about stuff from PopSci and PopMech covers as if it's in any way connected to reality?
people are horrible driving in 2 dimensions... hopefully they cant do it in 3
question of flying cars or not, people shouldnt be allowed to drive them for the most part
with how busy an airport is with hundreds of planes, imagine every traffic light with thousands of cars...
someone sees a line, decides they can fly up or down to skip line, and they die... they get impatient behind another, press the pedal to speed past them, stalls engine and they die... drives while texting and a wind knocks them around and they cant tell which direction is up, and they die...
see the trend when the public try to fly on their own without years of training? they die
You can tell the people who don't read the entire thread before posting and just swing by and say pretty much the same thing everybody else already said.
Actually the type of hovering/floating cars the OP is talking about, would be much less expensive and they would last MUCH MUCH longer than the cars we currently have, and be a whole lot safer, as that type of technology tends to be more solid state, so you have way less moving parts to go bad or wear out.
This kind of technology is not new by any means, the problem is, it has been suppressed for years, so it may seem new to us, but its really not.
ID say this is probably one of the reasons we do not have them yet...it would just be too destructive to existing auto market and parts, repair market, not to mention, we wouldnt need the tire industry at all anymore...thats ALOT of people out of a job, plus the fuel source with anti gravity specifically, there is no way to meter it out to the public, so that would be very bad for the economy, if no one had to buy fuel for their vehicles anymore...
See a trend yet? LOL Those people in the 50s and 60s who did 'this is what the future will look like' predictions, they were spot on with the technology, but they never considered that Govts would not permit the general public access to such technology, or how devastating some of those things would be to existing industries, economies...The Invention Secrecy Act was enacted in 1951, so that is pretty interesting timing!!
You and that obsession with the Invention Secrecy Act. The government permits pretty much anything, it's market forces that kills off fancy sci-fi projects. Everything from lunar colonies, to super sonic passenger flight, has already been attempted and failed.
If it doesn't make money it dies regardless of how cool it is. It's not as romantic as a massive government conspiracy, but it is reality.
I think eventually we will not need vehicles or transportation of any kind. I was just reading how one of the top 10 most groundbreaking technologies in the next 10 yrs (Popular Mechanics article), was the technology to email or text tangible objects...
According to the articles description of how this technology works, it sounds pretty close to teleportation! If they can pull this off with small tangible objects, its only a matter of time before someone will figure out a way to teleport people, materials, etc.
Just imagine if they could 'teleport' building supplies to the site, teleport food to where it is needed, teleport water, oil, to its destination...we would no longer need ships, trains, trucks, cars!
I'm afraid it's far more boring than that. Where we're headed in the future people won't need transportation because they're ordering everything and having it delivered. Actually wait, that's happening right now.
If it doesn't make money it dies regardless of how cool it is. It's not as romantic as a massive government conspiracy, but it is reality.
But the things that make money are the things that can be persuasively sold to a gullible public, from the hula hoop to white bread. Practical utility is a minor factor.
We were always lead to believe that one day, cars will fly but will that ever happen?
Starting in the 1960s. Coming soon!
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