Aston Martin reveals flying car that could hit 200 mph

Fox Business ^ | July 20, 2018 | Matthew Rocco

[McGruff]

What could go wrong?

[Joe 6-pack]

Hopefully it can hover so you can determine where the oil is leaking from.

[I want the USA back]

Sure.

This stupid idea is not new, but it is as stupid now as it was when it first came out. (I saw it in a Popular Science mag when I was a kid.)

Dumber than “self” driving cars.

[headstamp 2]

Lotsa fun in the Safeway parking lot.

[shelterguy]

Doctor Emmet Brown promised us flying cars powered by a flux capacitor that would run on garbage by 2015. Didn’t happen.

[Blue Highway]

The Jetson’s era has FINALLY arrived!

[pops88]

The DMV pairs up with the FAA...God help us.

[heterosupremacist]

[sphinx]

Autonomous ("self-driving") cars will be great as the technology matures. First and foremost, they will be far safer than conventional cars. Set your destination and relax. No more speeding, no more drunk or reckless driving, seamless lane changing, automated collision avoidance systems, etc. What's not to like? The computer's reaction time is better than yours. Get over it.

Flying cars? Not in the hands of human drivers. Within a week of deployment, they'll be flying through the windows of apartment buildings. And I'll bet they're noisy, which we will all regret as they crisscross the skies over our back yards. (Maybe this will be divine retribution for the cul-de-sac crowd.) They might be acceptable when they are flown by computers and stay within designated corridors, but not before.

[wally_bert]

I guess whenever the next James Bond movie comes out, it’ll be in it.

[antidisestablishment]

At least it looks like a flying vehicle

[SkyPilot]

A “flying car” is an airplane.

[McGruff]

With all the road rage incidents think of the sky possibilities. What goes up must come down.

[taildragger]

* Their is a whole new generation of flying contraptions.
* They are big dollar projects, some back yard types ( Peter Sripol )
* I am a bit flummoxed that EAA-er's ( as one myself ) missed this.
* Perhaps we were too busy trying to snag a run-out Lycoming to rebuild later for the RV-7 etc, and its glass panel.
* These flying machines rely on stability control
* The brush-less permanent magnet motor an Li-Ion batteries make VTOL without a helicopter configuration possible w/ rotation power assemblies.
* Efficiency can be sacrificed a bit for simplicity.
* A whole new generation of Solid State batteries will be here for autos in 2025 think 2 to 3x energy density where we are now.
* Anode revolution is the next step after that, could be more X's and more importantly battery life.
* I shutter to think, we maybe 10x energy density sooner than we think.

With all that said a flying machine like this will be electric and all of the above. None of this stuff is crazy anymore. Integration is key. I aware of a project and get to see it ( somewhat related to this area ) and see the challenges, this is not easy stuff to do, like Ronald Reagan said ( paraphrase here ) the simple solutions are the hardest. It will take some clever thinking and engineering to make this stuff all work.

BTW...

I've done some research on the history of Brush-less electric permanent magnet motors and Li-Ion batteries (taken out of Kodak instant cameras!) working in concert, and how they found their way into R/C aircraft, possibly way before this became the norm for Ecars and Hybrids. The R/C guys might have given us the template for future mobility land, sea and air, and were perhaps way ahead of their time....

[richardtavor]

Looks like a flying lawnmower to me.

[Moonman62]

24,000 miles a day of self driving:

Alphabet’s self-driving project, Waymo, has been testing its fully driverless minivans every day in Phoenix, Arizona, and so far the project appears to have been running fairly smoothly. People are flocking to the Waymo trial program, which enables them to hail these minivan taxis via their smartphone. “One year in, our early rider program and our extensive on-road testing is helping us build the world’s most experienced driver. In fact, our fleet of cars across the U.S. is now driving more than 24,000 miles daily; that’s the equivalent of an around the world road trip!” Waymo stated in a blog post last month.

https://www.investopedia.com/investing/waymo-going-add-alphabets-stock-price-rally/

[Preachin']

And what percentage of American families can afford something like that?

[RegulatorCountry]

Revolutionary tech tends to debut on the high end then filter down. It won’t always be in such a rarified vehicle.

[READINABLUESTATE]

No wheels, not a car.

[RegulatorCountry]

What could go wrong?

Texting and flying. Poor visual spatial perception means screwing up in 3D not just on a flat plane, the possibilities for crashing just multiplied exponentially.