When will news media stop falling for this shit?
Oh, yes, when it stops generating clicks. I am part of the problem.
Calling this thing a “real life flying” car is generous. This thing just looks like a mock-up at best and it didn’t appear to even have a driver/pilot during the demo.
This thing will be bad in the air and bad on the ground.
Please no flying cars. Please no. The jetsons made it look cool, but that was a cartoon made in the days before 9/11 and cell phones happened.
Now imagine some distracted driver, watching a tiktok while driving, and oops, they did another 9/11.
Now imagine that happens every week. Not because of terrorists, but because of idiots! WE HAVE A LOT OF IDIOTS IN THIS COUNTRY!!!
…please no.
Why would you assume these would be driven? This looks like a Hollywood special effect reel from the 1950s. We are close to having fully autonomous vehicles already. Any practical application of this couldn’t happen for at least another 20years. If we are still driving our own vehicles by then we are all pretty fucked already.
Pfft, whatever. Gasoline can’t melt steal beams.
In fact we have the largest strategic reserve of idiots in the world! Even our president is an idiot!
If that’s a “real car” then my left testicle is a genuine mild Italian meatball.
It’s a big ass drone with a car shape 3D printed over top of it
Precisely. A golf cart is more genuinely a car.
America can’t have 4-wheeled road-legal flying cars. 4-wheeled road legal cars must have airbags, but airbags are forbidden in aircraft.
EDIT: I stand corrected.
Airbags are not forbidden in aircraft. They just haven’t been considered to offer enough safety benfit for their weight and cost in most cases. That is starting to change though, and airbags integrated into aircraft seatbelts are becoming more common. They can be found in first class in a number of commercial aircraft, and are sold to be retrofitted into private planes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airplane_airbags
https://www.amsafe.com/product/airbag-restraint-systems/
There are many reasons I doubt this car will make it into commercial production, but the airbags will be OK.
TIL. I was regurgitating what I saw in a video a while back about the Switchblade, which was supposedly 3 wheeled because of the airbag thing.
Easy, just eject them when you take off, and inject them when you land.
The last thing we need is flying cars, even if they do get a proper pilot’s license. You don’t exactly get air brakes while in the air, and at least in the USA, recently Elmo Turnip decided to cut flight safety…
It’s a lightweight 3d printed exoskeleton of a car using drone like motors and fans. The journalist who went in person was not allowed to be close or watch someone get in or out of the vehicle. While in air it is pretty obvious there is no interior seating just what looks like 2 large fans on the bottom. To call this even a concept of a flying car is incorrect at best it’s a custom drone.
the safety of the actual car is good enough for consumers
This is a revealing statement.
That statement is good enough for you
I saw the article before somewhere on my newsfeed and didn’t click on it. Until we get some kind of new type of technology, flying cars will always be planes or drone that kinda looks like a car.
Ah there we go
Ha, it’s total crap. I watched video news about it.
Someone’s 3D printer at home did some serious overtime there.
I’ve seen kites that looked more convincing. There are now some real, functional flying cars, although they are still far too expensive to be practical. This is not one of them.
Then, how about posing just a screeshot in a shitpost group or similar?
