I'm sure this will go completely fine and have no issues at all.
Will rich idiots with too much money buy this car and kill themselves?
Recent data suggests yes.
Can it also dive to 4000m under the sea?
Technically yes?
Flying car stories are like battery tech stories, always one around the corner that's going to revolutionize the industry. Just clickbait based on the glaring lack of technical details.
Anyway people can't avoid accidents in two dimensions, adding another dimension would make that orders of magnitude worse. The only way flying cars can work safely is 100% autopilot. They still can't get autopilots to work without incident in normal cars.
I don’t understand why, if it’s approved by the FAA, there’s no actual video of it, only renders.
FAA approved it to be tested. Not for mass production or for a layman to use it. They probably got one flight plan approved.
Exactly! Flying cars sound neat in scifi, but in reality they are fucking loud and require 10x as much fuel or energy to transport the same people or goods. Just imagine the constant screaming noise overhead and if you think people drive like idiots now, just wait till they have to drive in 3 dimensions. No thanks!
Hm given what happened in the past with planes and pilots and all the regulations put in the place for that, I'm a bit surprised the FAA approved this. But it's only under experimental status so I'd hope when it gets more development the FAA looks at it move in depth and imposes more rules. FYI the imploded submersible was also approved under experimental status so this thing sort giving me vibes of that.
"The constraints were: […] it has to be affordable for most people (not just the rich)," Alef said.
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It costs $300k.
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