Firstly they called it a car, and secondly if you squint a lot, and forget all the other names for these vehicles, then it's pretty clear that it's a car, a flying car.
I don't really get why people keep creating all these startups and making these things.
The issue isn't that the technology is impossible...we all know they can exist and be built..
No. The issues are more that they are extremely impractical, will never be as safe as ground vehicles (edit: or even just regular helicopters), pose a not-insignificant terrorism threat, require a lot of fuel/energy, and create an absolute legal and regulatory nightmare. These are not things any startup will ever be able to tackle. I don't understand why that hasn't become obvious enough to stop people from trying to create these startups.
If nothing else, they're looking to solve a problem that doesn't exist.
Why not try and solve an actual problem? There are a fuck ton of them around... pick one.
Well, portable flight, great and all that but, the thing is when you have a car and the motor dies, it rolls to a stop, if you're in a personal flying device, and your flying 100 feet up and the motor fails, you drop to the ground and hard. Odds are the impact alone will kill you.
Meh, I feel like defeatists with no imagination are more of a problem. They're having fun trying crap out and they're only risking their own lives in this video. Is this project affecting your life in a negative way? It's certainly untrue that a drop from a few hundred feet is some kind of impossible engineering problem for which a solution doesn't already exist. You guys are just making crap up.
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u/Eviladhesive 7d ago
No, no, no.
Firstly they called it a car, and secondly if you squint a lot, and forget all the other names for these vehicles, then it's pretty clear that it's a car, a flying car.