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Flying cars crash into each other at Chinese air show
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Just in case anyone was wondering why we don't do that.
Now imagine hundreds of them populating the skies over a densely populated city, just to carry a few hundred rich people around.
When you say it like that, it sounds better in some ways and worse in others.
You take the rough with the smooth
It'd be fine if þey disintegrated, but instead þey're going to land on someone, statistically someone middle or lower class.
I’m amused by people constantly downvoting you.
Me too
Yes, and how many helicopters fly regular passengers over your city?
There's a reason these are speciality vehicles for speciality operations, and not a generic form of transport used all the time.
You need a fully automated and certified air traffic control first. That's only been discussed for a free decades now so any time now it'll arrive. Nah, nobody wants to put in any funding or take on the liability.
Sure, a person might have said that. They'd have been right about the danger but wrong about our risk tolerance. It's hard enough to keep people from becoming water balloons in a simple collision on the ground (though things have definitely improved in that regard over the past century). It's also a much bigger problem to run out of fuel or have an engine failure in midair than on the ground in the vast majority of situations.