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Flying car soars over traffic in astonishing first-ever video
New York Post ^ | Feb. 21, 2025 | Ben Cost

Posted on 02/21/2025 7:08:53 PM PST by mairdie

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To: mairdie

“Flight is facilitated through a system called distributed electric propulsion, with a mesh layer covering propeller blades to allow air to flow through the vehicle”
Fake photo, fake video, fake news.


41 posted on 02/22/2025 4:35:19 AM PST by brookwood (If I confuse Tom Cotton and Josh Hawley does that mean I'm racist?)
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To: Paal Gulli
The bigger problem with flying cars is that people canโ€™t be trusted now to drive responsibly with four wheels on the ground. Everyone having flying cars would be a logistical nightmare- not only would the drivers of such vehicles have to watch front, sides, and back, but above and below as well.

ALSO, when the police pull someone over, where are they going to pull them over to?

42 posted on 02/22/2025 4:57:59 AM PST by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! ๐Ÿ”ญ)
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To: mairdie

Where to start...

One ugly azz car
How much fuel was used for that one maneuver
What would the license requirements be ..pilot?
If everyone has one then nothing was solved


43 posted on 02/22/2025 4:58:35 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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>>If everyone has one then nothing was solved

Brilliant observation. Never even thought along that line.


44 posted on 02/22/2025 5:03:48 AM PST by mairdie
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The limited landspeed of 25mph will sink the venture with the present planned model. If they are going to sell the vehicle as both able to fly and able to drive on the roads, they will have to engineer it to have a much higher max land speed of at least 65mph.


45 posted on 02/22/2025 7:33:52 AM PST by Wuli (qq)
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“... when the police pull someone over, where are they going to pull them over to?”

Check out the traffic scenes in the movie “Fifth Element” - slightly organized chaos.


46 posted on 02/22/2025 7:46:13 AM PST by ByteMercenary (Liberalism is a mental disorder.)
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To: Wuli

On the other hand, in the country there’s less need for a flying car than in the congested city. So a slower top speed doesn’t hurt there.


47 posted on 02/22/2025 7:49:53 AM PST by mairdie
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To: ansel12

Yes, it could be a little over your head. ๐Ÿ˜‰


48 posted on 02/22/2025 7:52:38 AM PST by dforest
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Every congested city, even Manhattan, has highways through and around it to ease traffic coming into and leaving the area. Anyone operating a flying car is going to want to use it not just in the congested areas but getting into and out of them. 25mp just won’t do it.


49 posted on 02/22/2025 7:59:54 AM PST by Wuli (qq)
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To: Deaf Smith
It is a hovercraft. From the wide dispersal of dirt & rocks, it will be loud.

Well thank goodness. Now that Jose' and his over-powered leaf blower are being deported we need something that will damage the car paint and windshields Americans are too lazy to.

50 posted on 02/22/2025 8:01:00 AM PST by MikelTackNailer (Listen to me now, think about it later and cry about it some other day.)
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To: mairdie
It's nothing more than a quadrocopter (drone) with a carbon fiber shell resembling a car.
51 posted on 02/22/2025 8:08:26 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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What do we do when they start confusing the roofs of the Walmarts and shopping malls as the parking lots?


52 posted on 02/22/2025 8:25:57 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ByteMercenary

Yes, Iโ€™ve seen it. What a fun movie! BIG BADDA Boom! Flying cars for everyone! You green? Iโ€™m green!๐Ÿ˜€


53 posted on 02/22/2025 3:09:00 PM PST by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! ๐Ÿ”ญ)
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