Trump has referenced both at least once with little else being said about either. That I've heard anyway and I don't keep up that much.
But maybe a month or a little more ago I was watching a podcast that brought up self driving cars and that they were more or less to swing people into flying cars. Pointing out that automation would be needed. Which kind of made sense, I mean look at the roads, road rage etc, the skies would be a mess.
So what popped this podcast back into mind yesterday? I work at an auto auction and we handle Tesla storage cars, trade ins, off lease I'm guessing, not new cars. Any who, I'm the one that keeps them at/above a 25% so I drive em around the lot several times a week.
I don't pay attention to the models, not really a Tesla fan but they are fun to drive at work and have tremendous acceleration, but some have regular circular steering wheels, others have what I think I've heard called a "Bat Wing" steering wheel.
So yesterday I was driving one back to storage area with a bat wing (airplane yoke?), and I was like damn, I'm sitting in a futuristic cockpit! The screen generates your surroundings, and it certainly seemed if they were trying to ease people into self driving flying cars, this could be a way.
So I'm curious to see what thoughts or theories others here may have around this. If any.
I myself am fine on terra firma with gas IC engines, but if these flying cars ever come to be and they have a manual override, I'd certainly be up there giving one a whirl!
I wonder about the idea of flying cars ...
Imagine the works car park at ten minutes to starting time. Two thousand flying cars are all converging on a few small acres of car park at the same time. We know how busy Heathrow in the UK or Atlanta in the US get but imagine that with no air traffic control.
Many can’t drive already…. Flying for them is a horrible idea.
Yeah, my thinking too. There would have to be some serious navigation/guidance systems coinciding with these flying thingamajiggers.
I agree. I worked for an aviation company. People thrill over the idea of flying cars, but we have them already. They are called helicopters. Or light planes with blown wings (Custer Channel-wing). Yet they are not interested in making use of them. Why? Because it is trickier than the cartoons make it seem. More difficult and more hazardous than driving. Also more expensive. And you have to get a flying license.
The "paradigm" is to automate it, but I cannot understand the people who want to trust their safety to toaster-for-brains when it comes to automobiles, let alone aircraft.