Flying cars crash into each other at Chinese air show

Flying cars crash into each other at Chinese air show (www.bbc.com)
from FenrirIII@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 02:22
https://lemmy.world/post/36083394

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/36069403

cross-posted from: lemy.lol/post/52477761

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betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 03:28 next collapse

Just in case anyone was wondering why we don’t do that.

squaresinger@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 05:41 next collapse

Now imagine hundreds of them populating the skies over a densely populated city, just to carry a few hundred rich people around.

betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 05:46 next collapse

When you say it like that, it sounds better in some ways and worse in others.

Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 07:09 collapse

You take the rough with the smooth

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 18 Sep 08:29 collapse

helicopters.

squaresinger@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 08:37 collapse

Yes, and how many helicopters fly regular passengers over your city?

There’s a reason these are speciality vehicles for speciality operations, and not a generic form of transport used all the time.

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 18 Sep 08:47 collapse

exactly. there are hundreds of them populating the sky, lugging a few hundred rich people (or their representatives) around.

WanderingThoughts@europe.pub on 18 Sep 08:20 collapse

You need a fully automated and certified air traffic control first. That’s only been discussed for a free decades now so any time now it’ll arrive. Nah, nobody wants to put in any funding or take on the liability.

faizalr@fedia.io on 18 Sep 04:18 next collapse

We need this on every military parade.

stephen01king@piefed.zip on 18 Sep 05:42 next collapse

Is that even a car? It just looks like a massive drone.

ilillilillilillililli@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 12:06 collapse

Cars travel on the ground. These are indeed massive drones with the capacity to lift humans. The media won’t give up “The Jetsons” flying car term (regardless of how impractical and unsafe the concept of layman operating in 3D space is). These are just electric, multi-rotor aircraft. My rant is over.

6stringringer@lemmy.zip on 18 Sep 08:58 next collapse

jhoward@lemmy.sdf.org on 18 Sep 09:24 next collapse

And thus the reason we don’t have flying cars. That was two. Imagine the flaming hell that would be raining down if we had commute traffic numbers in the sky.

kameecoding@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 10:51 next collapse

People can’t even handle a zip merge, da fuck we need flying cars for, lmao, another technobro invention that only thinks about the individual and not the wider effect on society

cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone on 18 Sep 11:24 collapse

even in the future nothing works