French musician becomes first-ever passenger inside flying car: ‘Amazing experience’

NY Post ^ | 4/24/24 | Patrick Reilly

[bk1000]

This is fine as long as you’re the only one. People can’t drive on a paved road with designated lanes. How are they going to navigate the skies?

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

Airplane with four wheels. The entire game is "INVESTORS" -- come and give us money for this latest gizmo.

Imagine this "vehicle" and its wing span in LA, London or Rome traffic....

Imagine this "vehicle" and its wing span in the thousands on any urban road.

Marketing, courtesy of the NY Post.

[PilotDave]

Yup. We had very similar craft 50+ years ago.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_car

[telescope115]

I have said it before- we have trouble with people driving ON THE GROUND. I don’t have a problem with flying cars as such, it’s the potential drivers that scare me, let alone how is traffic going to be organized- lanes, stoplights and so on…

I would rather have an Iron Man suit.

[yesthatjallen]

Thousands of car accidents happen every day due to driver error or mechanical failures.

Imagine flying cars getting tangled in power lines, clipping the top of trees and buildings, running out of "gas", and falling from the sky.

[PLMerite]

"French musician becomes first-ever passenger inside flying car"

Not technically...

[dfwgator]

"Fifty Yards!"

[telescope115]

Interesting trivia: Jean-Michel Jarre’s father was Maurice Jarre, the Academy Award winning composer whe scored Lawrence of Arabia, Dr. Zhivago, and Jesus of Nazareth, among many others.

[dfwgator]

the Academy Award winning composer whe scored Lawrence of Arabia

Lawrence
Lawrence of Arabia
He was an English guy
He came to fight the Turkish

[telescope115]

The movie and soundtrack are spectacular.
In truth, I believe Sir Lawrence didn’t do this world any good.

[dfwgator]

The Brits screwed over the Arabs, and we’re still paying for it to this day.

[Noumenon]

Unintended consequences and all that.