• @Mickey7
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    162 days ago

    Initially I thought it said “hitler’s flying sedan”

  • @helpImTrappedOnline
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    313 days ago

    Its 2025, are most drivers ready for a 3rd dimension to keep track of?

    • @Demdaru
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      12 days ago

      What’s depth weeeeeeeee

  • Eager Eagle
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    263 days ago

    imagine most cars today flying autonomously

    now picture unbearable noise, cost, visual pollution, and a massive increase in emissions (or electric grid pressure)

    thankfully this never caught on

    • @[email protected]
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      83 days ago

      It was stupidly warm a day or two after Christmas here, and a neighborhood kid got some sort of drone that follows them around. I legitimately thought someone was running an electric weedeater.

      I shudder to imagine what the old plan for Amazon delivery drones would have sounded like. You know that fancy gated communities would ban them for noise pollution or something.

    • Eager Eagle
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      103 days ago

      same, I was expecting a beetle

  • @[email protected]
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    153 days ago

    Flying cars are a nice idea until you realize that the logistics and aerodynamics don’t math out well.

  • Monkey With A Shell
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    143 days ago

    You ever heard the noise a small personal drone makes? Multiply that a few times over flying over your house routinely. That surely wouldn’t get annoying.

    • Bezier
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      73 days ago

      Imagine daily traffic with as many helicopters as there are cars now.

  • Snot Flickerman
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    123 days ago

    https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/03/tech/flying-car-faa/index.html

    The Federal Aviation Administration has certified for testing a vehicle that a California startup describes as a flying car — the first fully electric vehicle that can both fly and travel on roads to receive US government approval.

    The company expects to sell the vehicle for $300,000 each with the first delivery by projected for the end of 2025.

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterlyon/2023/11/23/is-subaru-now-making-ufos/

    Subaru goes out of its way however to stress that this aircraft is strictly a concept for now, but does add that engineers from its aerospace and automotive divisions are collaborating on developing a working prototype, even showing footage at the show of a blue, unmanned test vehicle flying at low altitude.

    The Subaru even looks kind of like this 1950’s mockup.

    • @Fredselfish
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      63 days ago

      Great people can’t drive worth a damn on ground, lets have them driving around the sky now too along with planes. No way this will go wrong/s.

      • @[email protected]
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        You would need a pilot’s licence for this, and a PPL is far more difficult to get than a driver’s license.

  • @finitebanjo
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    32 days ago

    Technically they got approved by the FAA for the first time like a year ago. There have been tons of startups but they always go bankrupt.

    Pretty sure a recent one has been on the news alongside Fox New’s regular Drone-phobia segment, wouldn’t be surprised if they get shot down.

  • Bezier
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    83 days ago

    I like how the guy has to awkwardly peek over the side to see below. They just designed it like a non-vtol car.

  • @Skullgrid
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    22 days ago

    They’re called helicopters.

  • AnonymousCoward
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    83 days ago

    Do you mean private jets instead of a long road trip? Taking your private helicopter to go from one part of a city to another?

    The future did arrive. Pay up.

  • @PunnyName
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    43 days ago

    People can barely keep their cars in good shape. Imagine that shit falling on you.

    • @ZILtoid1991
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      12 days ago

      Luckily they won’t work on Mars, so he won’t touch it for very long…