how long before we're all flying cars?
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look out your wiindow
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This. Most of the road bearing population can hardly manage something that moves in 2D, let alone the additional spacial awareness required to move something along 3 axis
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Never. Ever. Not piloted by people anyway.
Not in your lifetime. In fact, I doubt it'll be in the lifetime of anyone who is alive now.
i agree. so, would you say that technology is not moving as fast as it once believed it would? if you look at the massive leaps in progression made by the cavemen and the romans, not a lot happened until the industrial revolution really. i sincerely believe that there wil come a time when air travel is required by joe public commuters.
I too believe there will be a time when its needed, but guessing that time is impossible at this stage.
The amount of things you need to take into consideration when letting people get off the ground and into the air with someone trained let alone themselves is very time consuming. Conventional methods of flying wouldn't work either, you would need anti-mavity of some kinda to make it even close to feasible.
You say that and flying is now available for the masses, particularly with cut-price operators flying economy flights, we all know the ones - EasyJet, Ryanair etc.
Just think back, not that long ago where flying was very expensive. The price has consistently fallen over the years to make it cheaper and more affordable to the average family. Obviously household income has also increased.
I can't see why it wouldn't happen, providing it became cheap/affordable, or mainly more beneficial.
However, my one underlying "doubt" is that some struggle to control vehicles on the roads - what will it be like in the air? A scene out of Star Wars 3 is coming to mind...
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That quote will haunt you forever....
This is the VERY SAME thing people said about normal cars and even planes.
really? i'd never get on a plane or a bus for that matter that wasn't piloted by anything not human
I mean having a 'flying car' parked in your drive and flying around the corner to Tesco, or to work every day instead of having a car. You'd never get people flying down the motorway or have 'flying cars' replacing normal cars.
Humans barely fly aircraft as it is, most of it is done by computers.
It isn't really because introducing the "flying car" would result in a complete rework of cities, roads, safety and not to mention the new training involved. Everyone would need to train to be a pilot of sorts.
Cars worked right away because they fitted into cities and towns, fowards backwards, left and right. If you brought in "up and down" then it changes a lot. People can barely drive as it is, so flying at whatever speed and at whatever altitude would be a death trap.
Until the right propulsion, right safety measures, right training, easy to use mechanically so that Chav McChav and granny and grandad can use it, the right design of a city that would allow it to even happen, then maybe its doable.
