http://www.terrafugia.com/
Specifically...
http://www.terrafugia.com/tf-x
Perhaps a little less HTML and a little more action?
Everyone's a critic. Sorry. Try again.
Heh. Much better.
Very cool.
Sweet. Would make long commutes bearable. Even looks a bit like a TOS Romulan Warbird from below.
If you can hook a bomb to it, I'm in. That way I can make my own parking space at Wal-Mart.
Um, no. People already can't handle driving along X and Y. God forbid you give them Z to deal with too. :idiot2:
Quote from: bbmike on August 12, 2015, 05:26:32 AM
Um, no. People already can't handle driving along X and Y. God forbid you give them Z to deal with too. :idiot2:
Yeah. Larry Niven wrote some stories involving flying cars. His contention was that the only way you can operate such a vehicle in crowded airspaces would be by computer control. We will just hope Windows is not the OS for such computers. :2funny:
Quote from: bbmike on August 12, 2015, 05:26:32 AM
Um, no. People already can't handle driving along X and Y. God forbid you give them Z to deal with too. :idiot2:
when riding auto piloted cars in mayor cities (first will be driverless cabs, then delivery vans, then trucks ) has become the norm in the 1. world. and steering "a car" yourself has gotten as strange/excentric and outlawed as saddling a horse from a stable and ride into down-town (inhabitants number larger then 1000 ;-) ) is today
...then the rich will call those "TF-x air- taxis" to avoid the jam on the streets....
(even so they already had payed for 'priority flow' on street bound generic e-cars , where the other computer controlled cars (who constantly exchange ID, position, and most sensor data with those nearby ...its a swarm AI) with generic people on bord who paid only 'standart flow' priority automatical let those Vip containing cars pass if possible safely.)
"more than one million people die in car crashes each year" -- not the best way to market your flying car. Yes, now let's help magnify those accidents by an exponential factor of 100! :P
Aviation safety is so safe partly because the pilots are super-trained, partly because of the strict controls on what can legally fly where and when, and partly because there are nowhere even remotely near as many aircraft sharing the sky as on the roads.