Posted on 02/02/2017 1:24:26 PM PST by nickcarraway
Really stupid idea. 2/3 of current drivers are not fit in any way to handle a car.
My uncle was Dewey Bryan who created several roadable-aircraft. His last one had Michigan license plates. He used the frozen lake across the street from his house as his airport. Sadly, his life was lost at the Oshkosh Air Show. He was a great man.
The Moller Sky Car is definitely one of the better looking flying car designs, in my opinion. With the nacelles placed at the corners for stability and VTOL capability it seems like it has real potential.
Hey - I text and fly.
If you have a stable aircraft, you can let it go on its own for minutes at a time.
The most dangerous thing about flying is driving back and forth to the airport.
I’ve been hearing this was the wave of the futures since I was a little kid in the ‘50’s. There were going to be flying cars... and amphibious boat-cars (actually some of those were built). And at the time, no one was worried about hitting planes or drones, because there were fewer and none, respectively.
Really true “flying cars” would be nightmare logistically, but something that could hover to a set ceiling, maybe 20 feet or so, that might be workable. That would allow them to fly above regular cars on the roadways, but if the driver/pilot messes up and crashes from that height, it wouldn’t be nearly as disastrous.
Licensing requirements would need to be a lot stricter than for driver’s licenses but not as tough as pilot’s licenses.
I interviewed Moller once and he talked a good game. That was more than 10 years ago and the thing is still vapourware.
Too bad. I want a ride.
Weren’t there puppets at the helm...Supercar?
Someone sent me a joke about flying cars - If they are purchased by someone over 60 years of age they will come equipped with an orange flag mounted on the left rear fender, forever waving in the breeze and the software will be programmed to allow the left turn signal to remain on at all times.
It would be safer to work on teleportation.
But where's the fun in that?
Besides, a system that could land one of those things safely would likely make the "car" unaffordable and would require major upgrades to infrastructure to accomodate them.
It’s true landing might require some manual control at first, since parking spaces are only marked by a line of paint. But as flying cars become more popular, the free market would take care of this too, maybe by giving each one its own transponder frequency. Who knows. It will probably be like the advent of the personal computer—you buy one and in six months it’s obsolete because they’re still evolving to meet society’s needs.
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