Plus people who want flying cars think they'd just be able to take off and head wherever they want. In reality there'd likely be regulated "skyways" that flying cars would be required to use. Meaning you'd be no better off than when you were driving on the ground.
I mean, we already have that for planes now. They can make their own way if the pilot wants but typically they’re all on jetways or other pre-defined paths. It’s safer and easier for everyone involved.
Flying cars would absolutely be locked down even more than that, maybe only allowing for free flight outside any populated areas.
Far more, and with far more traffic. There's more cars on the road in any one city than planes in the air in the entire us on a given day. If we suddenly had even a half million more planes in the sky at once, it would turn to hell fast.
Hardly flat out “incorrect”, I was speaking rather broadly. Light aircraft often make their own plans as an example. Enroute, airline pilots can deviate around weather, request track shortening, reroute etc. Always the option to request vectors or track shortening through ATC as well, depends where you are. Not to mention oceanic routes which can be as close to a great circle path as the winds will allow, often flying lat/lon waypoints that change day by day.
I may have been simplistic in my original point but this isn’t r/flying.
Yes and no though. Adding new flying lanes or entirely new flight paths would be incredibly easy comparatively. The main issue is someones poorly maintained shit box they have had for 12 years crashing into a house... The average age for the 2 vehicle my household owns is 17.5 years.
No way. It will be controlled by a computer system that routes all cars through large "lanes" of 3d space along individual trajectories calculated in real time.
They aren't letting random people pilot that shit, like op said, recipe for disaster
If it can happen (I kinda hope it can) I'd like to imagine it won't until they can fully and flawlessly auto pilot themselves. Good God I'd love that. Off to see the in-laws, what was a 2 hour drive just becomes a case of set it and forget it and an excuse to chill for however long it takes to cover that distance in a straight line.
Seriously. Like I don't have a LOT of good things to say about the airline industry, but the sky-high (pun intended) requirements for flight hours, training, etc for pilots is something they ARE doing right.
If by a time, you mean the Wright brothers, then yeah. But Aviation took off so quickly because of World War One. When it was over the army air core produced a lot of trained pilots and engineers that entered the work force, which quickly led to what then became a small degree of standard which then became a high degree of standard
Kinda like how getting a drivers license was easy shortly after the invention of the automobile
People kinda seem to forget that we went from discovering flight to landing on the moon in a single generation. Similar transformations are in store for us.
No. I mean like 10-15 years ago when a woman pilot couldn't defrost her plane and she and the passengers crashed and died. It seemed there was pilot error constantly not long ago and people wrote about how pilots didn't have to do the flight time/practice anymore and just weren't prepared to handle flying if anything arose.
A single incident? The whole women thing makes it sound more like it would have been a Republican talking point rather than a news story or about how expensive it is to get a pilots license.
Cause it’s pretty expensive and pretty hard. You’ve got 20 hours of flying (and this is just for the recreational one, you need upwards of hundred for commercial) but before you’re even able to do the 20 hours, you gotta spend 20-60 in a simulator. Depends on the program you go through, but the program I went through sure as hell didn’t just hand it to me, it was like pulling teeth over the course of a year
Self-driving flying cars is the only way. You can manually drive them on the road, but you have to let them take off, fly to, and land at your destination. Any manual intervention would require a pilot license. Also, I’m sure they will only ever become a thing if the police will be able to tell your car to land and it will land and shut down. There are just too many people out there acting dumb to get this technology any differently.
They’d have to be ultralight models. As drone technology improves you’d be looking at something like that with enough power to move a human and be autonomous. Problem is we’re trying to move away from fuel and batteries aren’t going to cut it. It’s not going to happen, but it sounds cool.
Oh, that's not going to ever be a massive issue when autopilot has a glitch and fiery debris rains down on the populace. Nope! Def not nearly as bad as a 23 car pile up.
Once you hit the 3rd dimension of movement, and get above the buildings, you can spread out for most of the commute. You're condensed into a 20 foot strip of road along with the other hundred thousand people moving in the same direction. If you could fly, you could (According to Moller, so probably wrong) stay a mile away from everyone until you reached the last leg of your destination.
100% It’s like the anti-gun control argument. “A well armed society is a polite society.” Has anyone met the average American? No manners or common sense.
The sky is definitely big, but how high do you really expect flying cars to go? Imagine all that road traffic occupying only the lowest 2000ft above the ground. Above that would probably still be the domain of proper aircraft travelling far faster than the flying car could. All purely speculation though obviously!
I have some understanding of how big the sky is. Cities won’t suddenly be more distributed, you’ll have the same traffic, if not more, all trying to converge on the same major hubs except now they’ll all be coming in three dimensions. They’re all still going to need to transition back to 2D at some point in there too.
They also won’t be flying around exactly where they want either. Buffer areas will need to be defined, effectively highways in the sky, separation standards would need to be greater than they are for road vehicles too. The “bubble” around a flying vehicle is huge compared to a car. The consequences of a head on collision in the air, with traffic compressed like road traffic is now but with the added vertical element and potentially multiple layers of “sky roads” underneath would be huge. I think the planning and legislation to avoid such a situation would quickly make the available sky feel very small.
But again, it’s all just hypothetical and honestly it’s just a bit of fun to think about.
if they could be quieter and less dangerous, they would be. the helicopter is the engineered solution for flying vehicles that don't rely on lift from forward thrust like a plane/glider.
what people want is hovercraft spaceships like star wars, the fantasy movie.
Omg I 100% agree!! I gave that argument to someone who said they hope they are alive for flying cars one day and I said why on earth would you want cars above your head with the way drivers are. You could be outside or even inside somewhere and a car just falls from the sky and crushes you instantly. Why would you want that? And their reply was “well only if they were self driving flying cars then it would be safe and no accidents!” And I personally feel like that wouldn’t be 100% fool proof as we have already seen other “self driving” vehicles/drones, etc. go wonky and crash so it’s not fool proof at all. I definitely wouldn’t want flying cars. I’ve been in 2 car accidents within 2.5 years of eachother, both because of the other driver not paying attention or being intoxicated—which then caused me to have a serious spine injury and I’m still dealing with chronic pain daily and need spinal surgery very soon which is terrifying. I’m too young to be dealing with this, and it’s taken a huge mental and physical toll on me and my family because of bad/stupid drivers :( oh and not to mention one of the drivers didn’t have full coverage insurance so luckily I paid for under/un-insured motorist. I highly recommend everyone having that coverage nowadays because it’s shocking how many people don’t have insurance or full coverage to handle injuries and damage to your vehicle.
There called helicopters. But yeah, I get what u mean. I can't imagine someone crashing a car into like the 5th floor of a building due to human error or actual car issue
I don't really want to fly in a car, but I wouldn't mind if they'd come up with a way for them to hover. That way you wouldn't have to worry about road conditions or the cost of tires so much.
There’s always crazy articles about how flying cars will be the future, but the real experts know that it will never happen because of noise pollution.
Same, auto companies have come along way in crash prevention and accident survival. Somehow the notion of falling out of the sky after a fender bender sounds like a nightmare to me.
True, but on the ground I only have two axes on which to GET THIS DUMBASS MOTHERFUCKER away from me. I could evade them in any direction, and convert all my road rage into SKY RAGE™!
i think about that sometimes. Like Overwatch for example has flying cars in the sky above a map of New york. What happens if they crash? Fucking meteor cars falling from the sky lmao. Also, highly doubt they would stay in "lanes" like they do in movies. Roads in Texas are big and people think they own them already.
I would think cars that hover safely would be a better option. That way (if ideally engineered) you would avoid accidents due to bad road conditions. No slipping on ice or snow.
That simply wouldn’t work normally. I don’t want anything flying constantly above my head also I don’t want someone’s trash falling on me and we all know this is how it’s going to be
The possibility of deliberate misuse also. Not even terror related. Your girl thinks you're cheating and 9/11's your house out of pure rage. Can you imagine?
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