Why do we not have flying cars? (2015, lane, drivers)
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Its the year 2015 and where are all the flying cars? In many popular science fiction like: Blade Runner, The Jetsons, Back to the Future II, The Fifth Element, and many other science fiction movies. We were all supposed to have flying cars by the early 21st century. But flying cars never took off (pun intended). Why is that? Why do we not have flying cars? One of the most common answers I get is: "If people had flying cars than we would crash them." Which in my opinion is not a good answer. IF flying cars were automated like self driving cars than they would be much safer. People would avoid collisions in automated flying cars. But I still wonder, what happened to the flying cars?
Its the year 2015 and where are all the flying cars? In many popular science fiction like: Blade Runner, The Jetsons, Back to the Future II, The Fifth Element, and many other science fiction movies. We were all supposed to have flying cars by the early 21st century. But flying cars never took off (pun intended). Why is that? Why do we not have flying cars? One of the most common answers I get is: "If people had flying cars than we would crash them." Which in my opinion is not a good answer. IF flying cars were automated like self driving cars than they would be much safer. People would avoid collisions in automated flying cars. But I still wonder, what happened to the flying cars?
Dude, self driving cars haven't been perfected yet nor approved for private sales and you're talking about self driving flying cars? It's far easier to roll a car on a flat plane than to fly a car through the air taking wind, altitude, rain, and ice into consideration. Aircraft today have autopilot but that's to maintain altitude at cruising speed, it's not for take off, landing, and responding to emergencies like massive down drafts.
Flying cars DO exist. They are just terrible at being cars and terrible at being airplanes. As cars they are absurdly impractical and as airplanes they are fragile and god-awful.
When you crash now, it's just rolling to a stop from friction, whether it hits an object or not. In a car that falls from the air, it will simply cause more destruction by default.
I don't trust most people who are on the ground. You want to trust people in the air with multiple axes (axis in plural)?
I actually hadn't thought about that.. Considering that they can get you for DUI for sleeping while drunk in a car... I presume they'd adjust the laws accordingly.. But..
People can't even drive normal on streets, imagine people in the air. Cutting each other off, going 60 in the left lane in a 70mph zone, running lights, road rage=air rage...Imagine that, getting out of your flying car to go fight someone, forgetting you're in the air and falling to your death. A mess all around!! We must first master driving on the roads and highways..lol
People can't even drive normal on streets, imagine people in the air. Cutting each off, going 60 in the right lane in a 70mph zone, running lights, road rage=air rage...Imagine that, getting out of your flying car to go fight someone, forgetting you're in the air and falling to your death. A mess all around!! We must first master driving on the roads and highways..lol
this. considering the idiocy that you see on the roads today, what do you think would happen if these same idiots were flying?
most drivers have problems dealing with two dimensions, now add a third dimension, and insanity ensues.
this. considering the idiocy that you see on the roads today, what do you think would happen if these same idiots were flying?
most drivers have problems dealing with two dimensions, now add a third dimension, and insanity ensues.
Exactly! I corrected my mistakes btw..lol
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