Comment on new Tesla Roadster prototype

gnutrino@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• FishFace@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  What do you do if the engine dies in your car? Put your hazards on and pull over. In your helicopter? Pray you can autorotate to a field.

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  • spicytuna62@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    But in a plane? Weeee! I’m in a glider!!

    Bonk!

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• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Gyrocoptors. They’re closer to a flying car, since if you can drive a car, you can legally fly a gyrocoptor in the US. Just remember to file flight plans, and watch out for power lines.

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  • CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They’ve still got the same danger as helicopters. If something goes wrong, you can’t glide and you’ll likely just fall out of the sky.

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You do glide. The rotor providing lift isn’t connected to anything, the lift is provided by horizontal speed. You’d have to literally hit a building, a mountain, or power lines to crash the things. You don’t need a pilots license to operate them, because you basically can’t crash them and the entire aircraft weighs quite a bit less than a car.

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      • CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Hmm, TIL, thanks.

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• TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Helicopters aren’t cars. But actual flying cars have indeed existed for at least ten years. I’m too lazy to go find this segment I watched on the topic, but I remember seeing one.

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  • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    at least ten years

    Close to a hundred years. Yes, I was surprised to discover this, too.

    Of course there have been who knows how many subsequent attempts ever since.

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• JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  We’ve had actual flying cars too, though they were really just car shaped quadcopters and never made it to mass production because they sucked as transportation.

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• cloudshouter@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Honestly the older ones with the wings from the 40s are probably less “kill you if something goes wrong” than anything today.

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