AeroMobil, a company based in Slovakia, showed a flying car in an auto show in Monte Carlo last weekend. The car, which is a true airplane as well as a street-going vehicle, will be available for sale in 2020, priced between $1.3 and $1.6 million US. What kind of license are we going to need? Blade Runner, here we come!
shareIt's weird that gravity is one of the weakest forces in nature and yet we still haven't overcome it (which would making flying cars possible)!
shareHow do you figure gravity is a weak force when our ocean tides are affected by it?
Anyway, gravity isn't the problem with flying cars, it's roadside breakdown lanes that's the problem. Until we install breakdown lanes in the sky for defunct planes to pull over for roadside assistance, we don't have the proper infrastructure available for any driver to utilize.
Gravity is the weakest fundamental force, mass is what makes it stronger
Anway blow your mind away with this
https://youtu.be/Ws6AAhTw7RA
Well, if you want to get nit picky, then you might want to call gravity what it is. It's not a force, since force is Acceleration times Mass. And since gravity is acceleration, it's only part of the force equation. So your original statement is incorrect about Gravity being the weakest fundamental "Force" in the universe.
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Okay now my brain hurts.
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I listened to a special on this very topic on the late night radio one evening. The prototype being discussed cost around $250k and utilized 6 snowmobile engines as the power plants.
One member expressed concern at how dangerous of an endeavour that this could be, but the primary idea behind the flight of such craft was automated, much as youโre seeing now with the upcoming driverless cars. The passenger simply input the coordinates and the vehicle couriered them to their destination.
When I was a kid, my mother got us kids a set of Disney encyclopedias (Many years ago now). One in particular dealt with future technology. The general ideas presented in the book were that by the year 2000, most of us living in the western world would be living like the Jetsons, but of course, that did not happen. I do think that we will see such technology, but I do not believe that it will be obtainable for everyone, and will be on a limited scale, much the same as it is now.
Yep, we were all supposed to be living like the Jetsons by now. Considering that driverless cars are still not ready for widespread everyday use, I'd say flying cars are still barely on the drawing board for now because they'd have to be driverless. We have too many bozos now who don't know how to drive safely and properly. Once they get the technology and infrastructure needed for driverless cars up and running properly, then they can move on to flying cars.
Six snowmobile engines, eh? Can you imagine the noise?? Yikes.
Yes, considering the operating skills of the common driver these days, a foolproof autopilot system would have to be a given. Otherwise it would end up looking like Death Race 2000 up there ๐ฒ
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This is not something any of us will see in our lifetimes. Maybe several hundred years in the future....
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The problem with flying cars is the cost benefit. They are expensive and those that will be able to afford it, can also afford a private helicopter and private drivers. Therefore, those who will actually need a flying car aren't going to be the ones who will own them.
The primary use of cars is to commute to work. Most people will not need to fly to work. That kind of air traffic would be hazardous and the sky will be cluttered. Even if air traffic lanes were established. And once you're at work, you don't need the car, so it sits in a parking lot. The best way to drive a car, is on the ground and so they "flying" feature will go unused most of it's life.
In the handful of times the "flying" feature is used, is it worth the cost of the overall vehicle? I was told many times before I bought my truck, that I'm better off getting a car and renting a truck when I need one, since I'll only use the "utility" features of a truck a handful of times in it's overall life.
Therefore, the same argument will be made here. Is it worth spending that much money on a flying car, when it's cheaper to just buy a regular car and a plane ticket whenever you need to fly somewhere?
I was going to respond to this, but kept forgetting, whoops. ๐
Anyway, that's awesome! ๐ฑ
Too bad I'm not a millionaire and probably won't be anytime in the near future. Maybe there will be tours/taxi's in those cars within a few years...๐ค
You'd probably need both a driver's license and a pilot's license in order to fly one. Maybe special training.
EDIT: Wait... Would they need a full runway to take off and land on? That kinda limits were it could go... Unless they make special places for them to take off and land in major cities. Hmm.
The prototype vehicle that inspired this topic needs some kind of road or strip for takeoff and landing, Leia. It's not the VTOL kind of flying cars they had in Blade Runner. Yet.
shareThat does make sense. Lol.
If they made it more like a helicopter than a plane, then it would be able to take off vertically. ๐
... Not sure how well that would work, but it'd be cool. Physics. Just have helicopter blades come out of the roof when it's time to fly.
I just realise,they should hire paul ws anderson for this,i'm sure that he will came out with something๐
shareWhataya think the insurance premium is going to be for a flying car?
shareYou'll get TCAS installed for free๐
shareI just had a thought: Airbags are legally mandated for land-locked cars, so, in another effort to promote overpopulation, lawmakers will probably require flying cars to have parachute-equipped ejector seats, like in a fighter plane. You can't expect Joe Blow to put on a parachute each time he gets in, but you can make him buckle up to the seat. It also means the aircar will have an exploded roof. But what about the scenario of a couple tooling an aircar down the highway at, like 70 mph and a heated argument breaks out and tempers flare and one of them ejects the other?
The opportunities for fun with this are endless.
It's easy, car manufacturers would make all seats ejected at the same time. It's only logical when an ejection of seat is needed then it's always needed for all of them.
So even when arguments are heated, nobody would dare to touch the eject button.
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Bingo! We need to let more idiots die. We are the only species to have overcome natural selection, and the result is Ben and his socks.
shareI don't have the statistics but something like hundreds of motor vehicle accidents happen every year. I don't need to worry about cars crashing and falling down on me.
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