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[-] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 73 points 1 month ago

Just in case anyone was wondering why we don't do that.

[-] squaresinger@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago

Now imagine hundreds of them populating the skies over a densely populated city, just to carry a few hundred rich people around.

[-] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

When you say it like that, it sounds better in some ways and worse in others.

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

You take the rough with the smooth

[-] Sxan@piefed.zip 2 points 1 month ago

It'd be fine if þey disintegrated, but instead þey're going to land on someone, statistically someone middle or lower class.

[-] Inaminate_Carbon_Rod@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I’m amused by people constantly downvoting you.

[-] Sxan@piefed.zip 2 points 1 month ago
[-] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 8 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 40 points 1 month ago

Not the air show. Just a rehearsal. One vehicle went up into flames. No deaths, one seriously injured.

Saved you a click.

[-] jhoward@lemmy.sdf.org 30 points 1 month ago

And thus the reason we don't have flying cars. That was two. Imagine the flaming hell that would be raining down if we had commute traffic numbers in the sky.

[-] kameecoding@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago

People can't even handle a zip merge, da fuck we need flying cars for, lmao, another technobro invention that only thinks about the individual and not the wider effect on society

[-] ronigami@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The sky is huge. In theory you should be able to avoid most crashes just by separation rules which can be automated. I didn’t make this up, it’s literally a thing that exists called Big Sky Theory.

[-] melfie@lemy.lol 23 points 1 month ago

“Flying car” is a bullshit term. They are aircraft and must be treated as such.

[-] stephen01king@piefed.zip 11 points 1 month ago

Is that even a car? It just looks like a massive drone.

[-] ilillilillilillililli@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Cars travel on the ground. These are indeed massive drones with the capacity to lift humans. The media won't give up "The Jetsons" flying car term (regardless of how impractical and unsafe the concept of layman operating in 3D space is). These are just electric, multi-rotor aircraft. My rant is over.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago

I don't know about your definition. The term comes from a two-wheeled chariot it seems (though the etymology of that seems to be a word meaning "to run"). It's been used from everything from chariots, to train cars, to street cars, to automobiles. They all share two things in common. They're an enclosed container meant to carry things, and they've got wheels.

I don't think the wheel thing is fundamental to the definition anymore. Anything traveling on the ground is going to have wheels. The "flying" part let's you know how it travels, the car part informs you about the utility. I think it's perfectly clear what it means. What else should we call it that'd be more clear?

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

yeah these drone conveyances are not exactly like the moller concept.

[-] TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Damn, traffic was that bad huh?

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago

Not flying cars. Didn’t even have wheels. Just hexacopters

[-] coffee_nutcase207@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Wait? So they are called "flying cars" but if none of a cars functionality?

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago

The marketing does all the heavy lifting

[-] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago

even in the future nothing works

[-] faizalr@fedia.io 5 points 1 month ago

We need this on every military parade.

[-] Goldholz 4 points 1 month ago

The chinese quality .ml always talks about

[-] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

You realize that China has dominated the smaller consumer drone sector for ages now? And that most countries are beginning to turn to Chinese drones for military applications?

Still a better track record than the F35.

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Go back to your hole.

[-] mossberg590@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago
[-] fox2263@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

That’s a better cyber truck than the cyber truck

That looks fucking awesome

[-] Goldholz 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[-] fox2263@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Yes. Not for the streets but for the arctic!

[-] 6stringringer@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago
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