Comment on Future
pyre@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago-
who says you need the same impact? a car can still fly through your window.
-
I’m not talking about literally recreating 9/11 itself, especially since the twin towers are not as tall as they were. shame. anyway, my point is flying cars make any kind of accident a potential mini-9/11. you can put guardrails on roads, what the hell are you going to have for flying cars?
MrFinnbean@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Talking about the danger. Cars can allready be driven to masses and many houses or businesess dont have any guard railings protecting them from normal cars, but we dont see those happening that much. Why it would suddenly change, by adding additional dimension.
Also small planes are not really that hard to come by. Why we dont have those driving in to buildings now?
Also doing “mini-9/11” would most certainly kill or atleast hospitialize the driver. I can somehow understand giving your live for cause you support and cause the enemy lot of pain, but i think there would be much higher treshold to give a life for something that is very unlikely to do anything but structural damage and hurt your self.
More likelly would be crashing while driving under influence, but i would imagine there would be higher treshold for anybody to fly drunk than drive drunk.
pyre@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
because there are roads and usually cars stick to those. grip is an important aspect of safety. there’s no grip in the air.
small planes aren’tn hard to come by? compared to cars? also do you think flying cars are going to use the same routes as planes? what about air traffic control?
you’re still thinking about my point as deliberate attacks when I’m talking about accidents having much bigger consequences. contrary to your belief there are tons of guardrails, literally or conceptually, around roads. there are no such things in air. if your car goes haywire in the air, it can end up anywhere.
I’ll concede higher threshold for drunk driving even though I don’t believe it can be enforced reliably. let’s say you can. people still make mistakes while sober. even more when tired. or preoccupied.
MrFinnbean@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I must missread something somewhere. I put much more weight on the terror side than the accident side.
If i was a civic engineer and a law maker and i would need to start making infra for flying cars, cities would be no fly zones, outside of dedicate “roads” that can be designed in so there is minimal danger to others in the case of crash. There would need to be dedicated flight height. These could be enforced similiarry than rentable electricscooters are now, so if driver would drive on a no fly zone or at wrong height the car would slow down. These would need to be build in things from the manufactorer. These no flight zones would also be near anything dangerous like energy plants, airports, military instalations etc etc.
We have allready things like automatic braking because pedestrians or deer or other cars. These would need to be supercharged so the vehicles do not let people drive to close other people or buildings.
Then things like harhers punishments for breaking the traffic law, more strict inspections for the vechicles and own permint for driving flying cars, that is prerequisite to buy a car and if you loose it, you cant keep the car, or there needs to be a mechanism where the car is made earhbound only.
Clear idea that flying is not a right, it is a responsibility.