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Caconz t1_je3idub wrote

Flying cars??? This one always annoys me because isn't that a plane? It's just that most are like flying buses and trucks. So bulk transport.

Unless you can fully automate flying it's not gonna happen. Too many drivers do dumb stuff all the time dealing only with forward, back, left and right. I wouldn't trust many people to be able to manage up and down as well, without serious training, like a pilot does. I think a lot would never be able to learn it at all.

They would also have to be quiet. Planes are so noisy and having them landing up and down the street all day would be God awful noise pollution

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ItsAConspiracy t1_je4rlw7 wrote

Generally what people mean by flying cars is VTOL, so you don't need to build runways for them. Of course there's helicopters, but they're expensive and noisy and helipads are still pretty big.

Automation is pretty easy for flying. We already complete automation for flying drones.

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Lightning6475 t1_je56jdn wrote

Oh we have the technology for flying cars but we don’t trust the public to fly them

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