imagine most cars today flying autonomously
now picture unbearable noise, cost, visual pollution, and a massive increase in emissions (or electric grid pressure)
thankfully this never caught on
2025, still no flying cars!
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eager_eagle@lemmy.world 4 months ago
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
It was stupidly warm a day or two after Christmas here, and a neighborhood kid got some sort of drone that follows them around. I legitimately thought someone was running an electric weedeater.
I shudder to imagine what the old plan for Amazon delivery drones would have sounded like. You know that fancy gated communities would ban them for noise pollution or something.
Bezier@suppo.fi 4 months ago
Electric beehive
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Man, I really misread the name of whom that aerial sedan belonged
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 4 months ago
same, I was expecting a beetle
Mickey7@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Initially I thought it said “hitler’s flying sedan”
galanthus@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You are not the only one.
takeda@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Thank God.
People can’t handle driving in 2 dimensions, imagine if 3rd one was added.
urgathoa@lemmy.cafe 4 months ago
Flying cars are a nice idea until you realize that the logistics and aerodynamics don’t math out well.
ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 4 months ago
You ever heard the noise a small personal drone makes? Multiply that a few times over flying over your house routinely. That surely wouldn’t get annoying.
Bezier@suppo.fi 4 months ago
Imagine daily traffic with as many helicopters as there are cars now.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
www.cnn.com/2023/07/03/tech/…/index.html
The Federal Aviation Administration has certified for testing a vehicle that a California startup describes as a flying car — the first fully electric vehicle that can both fly and travel on roads to receive US government approval.
The company expects to sell the vehicle for $300,000 each with the first delivery by projected for the end of 2025.
www.forbes.com/…/is-subaru-now-making-ufos/
Subaru goes out of its way however to stress that this aircraft is strictly a concept for now, but does add that engineers from its aerospace and automotive divisions are collaborating on developing a working prototype, even showing footage at the show of a blue, unmanned test vehicle flying at low altitude.
The Subaru even looks kind of like this 1950’s mockup.
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Great people can’t drive worth a damn on ground, lets have them driving around the sky now too along with planes. No way this will go wrong/s.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 4 months ago
You would need a pilot’s licence for this, and a PPL is far more difficult to get than a driver’s license.
Bezier@suppo.fi 4 months ago
I like how the guy has to awkwardly peek over the side to see below. They just designed it like a non-vtol car.
Slatlun@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Even worse, he is headed up. Why is he looking down?
florencia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Do you mean private jets instead of a long road trip? Taking your private helicopter to go from one part of a city to another?
The future did arrive. Pay up.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
www.cnn.com/2023/07/03/tech/…/index.html
The company expects to sell the vehicle for $300,000 each with the first delivery by projected for the end of 2025.
Exactly.
PunnyName@lemmy.world 4 months ago
People can barely keep their cars in good shape. Imagine that shit falling on you.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Technically they got approved by the FAA for the first time like a year ago. There have been tons of startups but they always go bankrupt.
Pretty sure a recent one has been on the news alongside Fox New’s regular Drone-phobia segment, wouldn’t be surprised if they get shot down.
FelixCress@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Don’t give Musk any ideas.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Luckily they won’t work on Mars, so he won’t touch it for very long…
DmMacniel@feddit.org 4 months ago
The Sisko is getting angrier by the day!
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 4 months ago
They’re called helicopters.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 4 months ago
could you imagine cars falling from the sky because the driver is playing on their phone or ran out of gas? no thanks.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 4 months ago
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Its 2025, are most drivers ready for a 3rd dimension to keep track of?
Demdaru@lemmy.world 4 months ago
What’s depth weeeeeeeee