A Plane in Every Garage- The Long and Twisted Road to Flying Cars

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[@KhattaRapidus]

35:53 They tried sooooo hard and they got so far, but in the end... it didn't even maaaaAAAAtter.

[@MrKiwi-ke3ud]

The in Deleteme advert says we should trust the company because he has been using the internet for two decades before KZbin was a thing. Should I trust someone who used the internet ten years before its invention?

[@melangellatc1718]

As a retired (28 years) air traffic controller… I am SO glad we never had flying cars! “Real” pilots were scary enough often times!

[@JarrodFLif3r]

The issue is the financial restrictions vs practical skill based restrictions it takes to be a licensed pilot. Plenty of people who are skilled enough to be pilots can not do it over financial restrictions, yet plenty of wealthy people who are not skilled nor disciplined can easily get a pilot's license after paying enough to get through the minimal tests and quals. We see it constantly in general aviation with mishap investigations where licensed pilots with limited time and quals do something stupid and get themselves and their passengers killed. Money can buy ones the pilot's license but can not buy the skill, discipline and ability to admit one made a mistake(ie inadvertant IFR) to be an actual pilot

[@josekentucky86]

That's what I've been saying, could you imagine all those idiots on the roads flying around in the air!! It should never happen

[@dianapennepacker6854]

Flying cars will have to be automated or be able to take over ASAP. Which actually should be easier than self driving cars. Less stuff in the air as far as obstacles. Yet seriously. Ford could have changed the way we see flight if history if he had his way. Ford definitely for all his flaws did try building a better future that did not involve pleasing stock holders.

[@Benson_aka_devils_advocate_88]

​@@dianapennepacker6854 aircraft require a lot of money to remain air worth. People can't change their oil on time.

[@abcdef-qk6jf]

I think I've got the picture. Aviation is like having drinks with you: #1 You call the shots. - #2 Reaching the service ceiling could be possible. #3 In spite of you doing your best giving good advice - not following the directions and using common sense - the outcome could be chrashing in a micro cell... 4# flying low and fast has its perils... bird strikes could be a problem. You might not be sure of what hit you. Later upon inspection trying to reconstruct the events. You feel blessed being relative unscaved. Even when the details are obscured - the bird has left an impression. #5 enjoying wild life is great - but there's a time and place for everything! I could be wrong being a layman - using a laymans terms using a somewhat superficial language and understanding. I try to use my words careful and within the context. However I've learned the hard way - just getting out of the house I'm already in trouble... Waiting for the wife getting ready to go - I could be tempted to watch YT and commenting. The wife looks at the clock giving me this scary look saying: "STOP GOOFING AROUND! We're late.." I'm eager to comply - However trying to tell you read her loud and clear by saying "I'm ready for a quickie..." I would have thought it was evident - I WERE ready for a quick departure! She never ceases to amaze me. Probably why I'm still fond of her. She's far better at multitasking than me. She's way better at giving directions than me. I'm not always sure of why she's giving me directions. But it's a helping hand keeping me out of trouble being concerned for my health and safety. I'm surprised by the similarities between marriage and aviation. You're not alone - why playing by the book and unwritten rules makes sense. Failing to observe them will be having consequences...

[@martineldritch]

Teen drivers, inebriated drivers, elderly drivers, drivers with bad medication reactions; all bad enough on 2 dimensional surfaces, imagine all that in 3 dimensions ?

[@JBDay-bd8cu]

Lmao. I like this reaction lol

[@tripsaplenty1227]

New Jersey drivers 😬

[@boxhead6177]

We already seen how bad people are with drones.

[@xFatCommandox]

That's exactly what I thought. There are plenty enough idiots driving around on the road, and if you make a mistake, you usually can only get so far off the road. The freedom of 2 dimensions is more than enough for morons. Also, when a car breaks down, it usually iust.. rolls to a stop. If an airplane breaks down, you are either screwed or about to be screwed if you cannot find a landing zone fast.

[@abcdef-qk6jf]

Boomer will be the expression for elderly disoriented drivers crashing..

[@SA12String]

It cracks me up that not one of these inventors ever thought that the "flying car" would result in flaming small aircraft falling out of the sky over cities and roads daily after the inevitable collisions between pilots who felt that they own the entire sky. It's bad enough down here on the roads, with so many drivers utterly unconcerned about anyone around them in the adamant belief that the whole road is theirs and theirs alone.

[@DookRahool]

With a lot of scientists and inventors it's not about should we but more about can we. Some people have great minds, but terrible foresight or morals.

[@aste4949]

​@@DookRahool And even with good foresight, humans will always find new ways to surprise us all for the worse.

[@XiaolinDraconis]

Down here you can't simply go around most traffic, nor can you see what is ahead of you beyond a useless few seconds away. Up there you don't have to share a lane and can see traffic for miles and miles in any direction... It would take every person who has ever lived in the last hundred thousand years to come back to life and start flying before the sky even begins to get congested.

[@johnbennett1465]

​@@XiaolinDraconiswith hundreds if not thousands of vehicles in your general vicinity and moving in 3 dimensions, it is impossible for a human to keep track of everything. Having a few dozen flying cars in a city is viable. Once the average person can buy a flying car, rush hour would result in more carnage than a firefight in a war zone. As mentioned at the end of the video, computer control is an absolute requirement for wide adoption of flying cars.

[@XiaolinDraconis]

@@johnbennett1465 20 minute drives turn into 5 minute flights. There would be less traffic in the air than we have on the ground even if twice as many people were flying as we have driving currently. You would also have thousands of extra lanes.

[@app103]

I don't want flying cars to exist. I don't need another thing to keep me awake at night, such as thoughts of drunk drivers crashing into my 2nd floor bedroom while I am sleeping.

[@Calvito-]

Sleep well, it`s never going to happen.

[@XiaolinDraconis]

I'm building my own drone car, it's super easy and you can follow simple tutorial. They can't stop me. ​@@Calvito-

[@XiaolinDraconis]

​@@Calvito-I think people don't because batteries are prohibitively expensive. Takes about $1500 to get enough power and like 10 minutes flight time. That cost also scales up poorly. But it IS doable if you can waste a few grand.

[@rainbowtheythemshe1115]

I'm not even allowed to drive a moped 😂 you don't want me flying anything heavier than a broom 🧙‍♀️

[@Crangaso]

Not allowed to drive a moped? You need to move to a country with Freedom or GTFO of your parent's basement

[@lesleygraham5927]

😂😂😂

[@mikeysrose]

What about a Shark vacuum cleaner? 🤔

[@ThatBoomerDude56]

Back in 1964 when I was 8 years old my (aeronautical engineer) dad explained to me *why I would never have a flying car:* Even though flying cars had already existed for nearly 20 years by then. Everything that makes a GOOD CAR (suspension, strong (heavy) body, transmission, etc.) makes a really BAD AIRPLANE and everything that makes a GOOD AIRPLANE (wings, etc.) makes a really BAD CAR. *He's still right.* Note: The spate of electric "drone" style "flying cars" is no exception to what he said. They are impractical, expensive, not really "cars" at all, and batteries can only keep them aloft for a few minutes.

[@SA12String]

It's harrowing enough going out on the roads with these lunatics. The sky? Nope. The flying car concept will never work without a computerized air traffic control system that takes all control away from humans, and nobody wants that, because EGO.

[@V3RTIGO222]

The latest ones developed as "air taxis" for shorter trips can fly for hours at a time, and could charge at any location with the correct electrical connection without it or the pad needing to hold volatile fuel. They're really just VTOLs though, and designed to be automated or use remote pilots instead of being flown by person.

[@KhattaRapidus]

Have you heard of balloons and their older empty forefathers, which the latter don't exist functional yet?

[@ThatBoomerDude56]

@@KhattaRapidus What do balloons have to do with flying cars?

[@jdmather5755]

@@V3RTIGO222Aircraft are very susceptible to weather conditions - especially smaller ones. Also, motion sickness by occupants. No significant commercial market for even professionally piloted EVTOLS.

[@Richard_Turner]

James may nailed it.. if your car can fly you will just fly everywhere not wait until the road is blocked 😂

[@ProbablyNotLegit]

What they've really done then, is invent the helicopter

[@matthewlong9369]

Before even watching the video: As a former Doordasher, I can attest to the fact that a disturbingly large portion of the population can't handle driving in two dimensions safely, let alone three. Furthermore, even the best drivers would probably lose heart at the idea of merging vertically. There is also the problem of blind spots, which would take up most of your necessary field of view.

[@mblake0420]

Bs

[@willmorrison1022]

@@mblake0420 Wow, you're a real jeenyus, aren't you?

[@mblake0420]

@@willmorrison1022 I drive for a living ....so no I'm not but I know it's bs

[@zDToddy]

​@@mblake0420ironically the worst drivers on the road are the ones that do it professionally

[@markbrowning4334]

​@@zDToddyno....no, that's not true at all. Its just easier to spot when a professional driver makes a mistake.

[@TheCerealHobbyist]

I grew up in Kelso, Washington where Molt Taylor the inventor of the AeroCar lived. My dad was a private pilot and knew Molt pretty well from hanging out at the FBO at the airport. I saw it up once when I was kid. My dad refused to go up in any of them. He would bring it to fly-ins, and since my dad knew him I got to get in the last model once (and meet Molt). He was very kind to me as an airplane nerd kid peppering him with questions. The idea of going up in it was sketchy as hell and we used to go up in 30 year old Cessnas! He was seen as kind of a kook in town. He was planning to make another one out of a more modern Civic, but never finished it.

[@miseajeux1287]

some people can't be trusted with a normal car, let alone a flying car.

[@mblake0420]

Bs

[@willmorrison1022]

@@mblake0420 Wow, that's a pithy, informative comment. Sure showed OP.

[@thepax2621]

Knowing how people drive on the roads, I'd very worried how the avarage person "fly's" 😅

[@TylerLinner]

If you don't think we have flying cars, you haven't seen Brandon Semenuk in a rally race.

[@LuoJun2]

Flying cars exist. My personal favorite is the PAL-V , which is a road-worthy autogyro. The Terrafugia is a folding wing option that already has FAA approval, but I’m not sure it is commercially available. Flying cars cost as much or more than a small airplane and you have to have a pilot license to operate one. Getting a pilot license will cost you about $7000 U.S., and it normally costs over $10K. Then you have to buy the vehicle. Legally required annual inspections will cost you about $1200, depending on the aircraft, and that’s not including any repairs discovered that are required to keep the aircraft airworthy. I won’t get into the hassles you have to go through to get and maintain your medical evaluation to be permitted to fly. Bottom line is flying is prohibitively expensive, legally highly restricted, and depends on your current medical condition. I am a licensed pilot and a licensed aircraft mechanic. I know this stuff. I’ve been through it.

[@rienkhoek4169]

That is just on an individual level. Now imagine 10's of thousands of these in a heavily urbanized area at the same time. How do you avoid collizions, where do you land and park.

[@Alejandra-cv7rj]

I dont want to imagine the maintenance bill for a flying car just look up how expensive it is to maintain helicopters.

[@grejen711]

Taking the pilot out of the problem set does make the idea of a flying car plausible. But then just think of the catastrophe if something like the recent Crowdstrike glitch happens!

[@AnotherPointOfView944]

Doesn't matter how clever the automation gets with a flying car, the weather is going to be the killer. Bad weather (or even clear air turbulence) gives you a random variable for which normal pilots do their best to mitigate by avoidance altogether. Also, automation like this would require redundancy in every critical component, which increases cost. I have personally developed software for dual-redundant control systems, and it adds far more complexity than you might imagine. I personally dont think this concept will ever become mainstream for cost, practical and safety reasons.

[@carylgibbs6094]

I very clearly remember my kindergarten teacher (age 5) reading us a story and showing us pictures of the flying cars we would have any day now. That would have been 1972. I think about this often.

[@robo5013]

Your kindergarten teacher was five years old!?

[@willmorrison1022]

@@robo5013 They were difficult budgeting days for education. The 70's were brutal. 😂

[@drgunnwilliams8239]

Not all flying Pintos recorded over the years, had wings!😂😅

[@willmorrison1022]

True, and you could see them from a distance because of the flames.

[@rayceeya8659]

Flivver has a short "I" sound and Pitcairn has a long "A". Simon's pronunciation is driving me crazy today.

[@B-and-O-Operator-Fairmont]

While the cars were "Flivvers" I think Ford was making a play on words with "Fly-ver". That was the sense I got. But yeah, the Pitcairn thing got me too.

[@BaronVonQuiply]

I saw a BMW use a turn signal one day After I recovered from the shock, I pulled over to safely use my phone and reported the car stolen

[@ventonthorn3455]

If your car's engine conks out you pull off the road and call AAA or a tow truck. If your flying car's engine conks out... uh, well...

[@XiaolinDraconis]

You extend parachute and glide wings... We have ultra light crafts ya know

[@Elated_Llama]

If you had glide wings, odds are you would already be using them. Parachutes aren't going to be realistic either. sure, a person can land using a parachute just fine, but a vehicle weighs considerably more... you need anywhere between 5-10 human parachutes at least. And where to land? i'd hope you aren't flying over a forest, rocky terrain, bodies of water, or any urban area that is not the suburbs... There are reasons why planes don't have parachutes, even though, in theory we have all the technology needed to install them. You also have to keep in mind that due to people flying rather then using roads, the prevalence and size of roads will be significantly reduced. No, the answer to the awful experience of driving to and from work every days lies in... not using cars... as cars are the only reason our commutes are this horrendous. Legs, bikes and public transit, together with smart city planning (or rather not 5th grade city planning) is the only thing needed to turn your dreaded commutes into a quick, easy, pleasant and healthy experience.

[@XiaolinDraconis]

@@Elated_Llama you didn't watch the video? The parachute cars are there, they already exist. So did the glide wings. Tell me how a parachute stops a drag car, weighing a thousand pounds and acceleration from a rocket engine. Yet they still stop. We're talking about falling, no insane extra forces. Everything else though, spot on.

[@williesnyder2899]

@X…: Please do not land on my roof. It’s not rated for a falling car bound to a parachute, and you will have to avoid the power lines abounding my neighborhood. Maybe try Iowa, Nebraska or Wyoming?

[@XiaolinDraconis]

@@williesnyder2899 A lot of ultralight crafts spend most of their time just gliding, it's not hard to avoid powerlines, and in most places power lines aren't even that common because smart people have them buried. Oh and even IF they crashed into you, they are called ultralight for a reason, they gonna fall apart on contact with another vehicle or a home. Top speed is also 60 mph for those, it's enough to do some damage but at a max weight of around 440lbs at 60 mph, they aren't gonna do any major damage. Nothing like a 2 ton vehicle flying around at 90 mph.

[@dennistate5953]

Tim Wilson: "where the f is my jet pack?!" Should be soundtrack for episode.❤

[@samuelmeasa9283]

I'm rather happy we don't have flying cars. The number of people who had issues keeping their eyes on the road and off their phones.

[@TheCollabCurator]

The switchblade is the world first flying car that can fold its wings and tail completely within the body protecting them while driving on roadways. Making it the world‘s first flying car that is insurable on roadways .

[@_charwyn]

With people not being trustworthy of a freaking scooter, yet alone a regular car, giving them ability to fly would've been on of the stupidest ideas ever

[@garyb9167]

Flying cars are a bag idea. You see how people drink and drive now, can you imagine drinking and flying. Recipe for disaster

[@TheWombat2012]

I barely trust other drivers in two dimensions, let alone three. Then there’s the fact that a disturbingly large percentage of drivers couldn’t be bothered properly servicing their cars…imagine Bubba with his badly maintained Chevrolet Flying Death Trap taking off to go to work. By the way Simon, the word is pronounced “Flivv-er” with a short “i” as in “flip”. The Ford tri motor was also used by the legendary Australian pioneering aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith to cross the pacific. His plane is in a museum at the Brisbane airport here in Queensland.

[@seanmostert4213]

Excellent research went into this comprehensive video, nice work to the team at Side Projects. It was great to see just how many different people have attempted this venture and what we can all learn from their passion and creativity.

[@tripsaplenty1227]

We call flying cars airplanes and helicopters.

[@mblake0420]

Yup buses and cars

[@Nothingness00000-o]

Aeroplanes are more flying buses.

[@tripsaplenty1227]

@@Nothingness00000-o what if it's a small 4 seater?

[@yeetube-ghostedMoose]

... dang it! - I'm still waiting fer the "two cars..." and the chickens. ...

[@tedwalford7615]

It'll only work if all flying "cars" are centrally controlled by an all-aware system in continuous contact with ever flying vehicle. The driver/pilot can only input their desires and preferences, but cannot override the central controller.

[@toniawhitaker9697]

Yes that definitely could work. Centrally controlled driverless air taxi service. Just imput where you want to go.

[@ElizabethRecinos-b1n]

Hal

[@alannitcher5001]

I don't think the central computer would need to actually control the cars. Just tell the computers in the car were to go.

[@M2lsBc]

Dude we really do (mostly) live in the world of the jetsons. We can watch videos, have classes, and video chat with anyone, anywhere in the work whenever we want to.

[@davidmtwigg]

And you thought problems with road rage were bad? Imagine air rage. 😳

[@B-and-O-Operator-Fairmont]

Meet Joe Smith. He armed his flying car and now is an ace with five air and two more ground victories. His court case is next week.

[@unf3z4nt]

It will be a near continuous onslaught of 1 ton kinetic missiles from the air.

[@StardustAnlia]

This video made me understand the abstract concept for how the interstates fill the need for flying cars. Maybe I can use this to understand that Amazon fills the need for replicators or that virtual spaces fill the need for floating cities with different laws. However, we can see that the knowledge of their virtuality makes virtual spaces unable to satisfy our needs emotionally and despite delivery services satisfying the consumer needs for fast service and lack of social interaction, the manufacturing is still just as unsustainable as it was before possibly without the fossil fuels, but with an unsolved mine to landfill pipeline.

[@TJay05]

Simon's employee making sure he gets paid this week xD

[@goosenotmaverick1156]

Except on this channel, Simon is the employee. The fella doing the ad read I believe is the person that actually owns/runs this particular channel

[@dpsamu2000]

No problem. Inflate a dome with a Sulphur hexafluoride, and Oxygen gas mix. Then a one man helium balloon 15 feet in diameter shaped aerodynamically, and you got a flying car. You could even play bumper cars with it. Good idea for a small introductory attraction to get people secure in its safety. Also makes buildings cheaper too. The floors float same as cars just tethered to the ground rather than supported by it with concrete, and steel. Hight of the buildings is practically unlimited. No need for suburban sprawl. No need for elevators or even roads inside the dome.

[@turtleboy4111]

I personally would rather have a transforming mech suit over a jet pack.

[@Alejandra-cv7rj]

Already exist cost around 1,000,000 dollars and exported from Japan

[@ganndeber1621]

I want love bots

[@hustonovich]

Given all the logical issues with flying cars, hover cars that go no higher than a couple feet or maybe half a meter off the ground a would be slightly more attainable. Then again, there would still be plenty issues with that idea as well, such as fuel consumption, propulsion, safety features, and whether or not it could be operated over water or just solely over land, etc.

[@timothybarnett1006]

As Charles Stross has pointed out, the primary reason for flying cars not taking of is that any engineering failure in a normal car usually just stops the car, stopping a plane has far more serious ramifications.

[@risenempire]

Since I'm from Massachusetts, I'm only here to complain about the pronunciation of "Woburn" as "woe-burn" it's "woo-burn"

[@Obi-J]

And we're still waiting for the Back to the Future style hover boards as well!

[@ronhutcherson9845]

I’m curious about why most objections to flying cars don’t consider the weather. Anchorage Alaska once had a daily “Airplane Weather” show on public TV. Out in the bush, small planes _were_ the cars, and that show made it clear how they were at the mercy of the weather.

[@B-and-O-Operator-Fairmont]

One thing that was NOT discussed is the problem of taking off and landing in non-airport settings where utility poles, power lines, and trees are everywhere.

[@msk806]

Yeah I remember many of these earlier attempts... the flying pinto was very scary 😂

[@rosmundsen]

I do not trust my fellow citizens to operate flying cars safely.

[@MitrovichtheMagnificent]

I think that's the BIGGEST reason lol

[@TomFarrell-p9z]

Back in the early 1980's I owned half of an AVE Mizar. You could find parts alongside any roadway, but, since we all littered in those days, the hard part was distinguishing the parts from the rest of the trash. Seems like a terrible thing to do to a Skymaster. Since there is only one propeller, but you needed the Pinto engine to take off, did the pilot half to be multi-engine rated?

[@diqweed69]

That ship sailed on 9/11/2001, sorry folks. Besides, people can't even follow street traffic laws. Imagine some a-hole pulling onto the runway / road in front of you as you're trying to land because "he's got places to be".

[@personanongrata47]

this channels just too underrated

[@fraserphilip7243]

youtube just legit put an ad right in the middle of the 'Ad' section for delete me, adverts on adverts, this is a great advertising website occasionally interrupted by interesting content :o lol

[@markmitchell457]

I didn't want a flying car, I wanted the flying go-kart we were teased with in the late 50s. I'm so glad they were not developed. Imagine the carnage if most kids on your block had a flying go-kart.

[@robertevans3025]

You can tell someone is not from Michigan by the way Ypsilanti is pronounced. I did laugh a little when it was pronounced as YIP-sihlanti. We pronounce the Y like an I, Ihp-sihlanti. I loved hearing the tales of Willow Run's early days from my grandparents, who grew up in that era. We have been to the Henry Ford Museum twice. I will have to look for that Fliver on our next trip.

[@wayloncapps9480]

When I was a child, maybe 10 or 12 me and one of my cousins were playing with hot wheels toy cars and trucks. We would pretend they would fly when we would open the doors which led to an argument she claimed in 30 years, everyone would have flying cars. I disagreed and bet her. I’m now 48. If my math is right that’s around 36 years ago. If your out there Sarah, Ha told you!!

[@charlesachurch7265]

Very interesting and entertaining presentation. Thankyou xxx

[@PamWessel-o1y]

Definitely more interested in the robo maid than the flying car. 😂

[@rekall76]

Paul Sandner Moller, absolute legend

[@Allnimalz]

Proof humanity is insane. We have seen how people drive. Y'all want them flying?

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

In 2023 Doroni Aerospace earned an official FAA Airworthiness Certification. It is powered by ten independent propulsion systems. They company claimed a top speed of 140 mph and a 60-mile range. It includes two electric motors with patented ducted propellers. The machines is 23 ft long and 14 ft wide.

[@kingjames4886]

dude, where's my flying car? I smell a remake!

[@poeterritory]

I'd watch that.

[@ericherron599]

I'm a little surprised that the Klein AirCar wasn't mentioned.

[@jonofthehill]

Definitely want a robot maid more than a flying car.

[@capoman1]

Me too. Specifically a robotic chef. It would be amazing to just set out ingredients and get some of the best prepared food.

[@RobertKohari]

BMW drivers in the sky ... nuff said ...

[@SimonJ.]

The poor rutted dirt tracks still exist Simon! Have you driven on any road in the UK recently?

[@ericshelby8813]

While Simon went over the history of the flying car here, he went over why flying cars are a bad idea in more depth on his defunct Science Unbound channel.

[@HandsomeDanVacationRentals]

I'm betting that, with the advances in Ai and battery cell technology, something like a flying autogyro will be around sooner than later. If tesla can have Ai self drive then self flying should be even easier as it doesn't have to read signs, lines, or worry about other motorists.

[@fenix2k1]

If you believe that i have some magic beans to sell you. Your base premise that Tesla have "AI Self Drive" is your first error.

[@ansonang7810]

Drone tech making it possible

[@charanvantijn541]

You've left out the PAL-V Liberty. Quite an oversight.

[@renaissancejames]

Another reason they won't likely be coming to everyone's garage is the same as one reason airports are away from city centers: noise. Even a medium-sized drone can be heard from a fair distance away, but something large enough to create lift for a human makes far too much noise to be acceptable, like dozens of leaf blowers operating all at once. Multiply that times the people commuting in a neighborhood and it would be untenable. It's one reason the demo videos rarely feature live sound from the demo and why drones rarely record audio. Advances in blade design have helped, but it's still a very noisy operation. Nevertheless, it's an easy which I would love to see solved soon. Well, maybe fix the damn leaf blower sound issue first.

[@kenmck7802]

You CAN'T give people FLYING cars. How many die JUST on the ground. You start putting crazies in the air? Whoa

[@joellelinden7079]

A few years back there was a dutch company making a flying car. If i remember well the car/plane was good but had no success because of EU regulations because you had to have a normal driving licence and a flying licence

[@thomasdriggers759]

I skipped past the weird guy doing the ad read. Dafuq was that lol

[@oxcart4172]

In the not too distant future, you won't need to touch the controls, though. It won't matter if you're sober or roaring drunk

[@_PITBOY]

Studebaker ... like bake a cake. Stood-a-baker

[@GudieveNing]

I'm surprised Mollar failed long term. Their design was technically viable, just inefficient.

[@buckshot6481]

I guess the aero car from the grand tour, the one Jezza said would be on sale in a year, I think it was Chech, well looks like it never made it.

[@Vontroll]

And he ends the video giving us more (probably false) hope that flying cars are just around the corner.

[@theblacklapinou]

The issues with futuristic robot aids are pretty mundane, as in “what if it malfunction up a flight of stairs?” As in, would you want a 600 pounds brick of steel fall on you because it’s low on battery? What if it shuts down during a fire emergency and blocks the exit? Mostly stuff like that. Which are totally valid concerns to have. Others are “if you market it as helping the elderly, how do you convince an old person to trust the machine?” Is there a risk that the help might hurt the elderly if for example they have to be spoon fed and they resist for some reason?

[@maxwirt921]

Didn’t Simon do a very similar video on this or one of his other channels a while back?

[@jefft786]

Great. Let's add "air rage" to our problems.😊

[@djdrack4681]

There's a dude around my place (on water) that has a boat plane...No not a seaplane (plane that has pontoons), its a boat 1st, plane 2nd. Idk if its not meant to fly too high, but he's never flying it higher than maybe 500-700ft: prob due to it not being the most aerodynamic thing ever. As a boat its slow AF...but hey, you can't do everything and have everything.

[@joebojanic1905]

Haha, high quality roads. Michigan would put that statement to shame.

[@in4theride75]

There are already robots that cook for you, multiple of them actually. You just need a few hundred thousand dollars at the moment.

[@gridleemargraf7530]

Would you consider a video on rendered meat? Sausage, burgers. It is so different taste from 1980s. What has changed? Thank you. Grid.

[@memphisdaniels3218]

I don't think we are that far away, once we have a driverless road system there is no reason drone technology wouldn't be capable of carrying passengers, GPS is 3D

[@jerseythedog]

I only tapped on this because I knew it would be a conversation between Simon and my empty self while I fall asleep listening to the most pragmatic idea of why flying cars are enigmatically stupid. And I’m just 30 seconds in. Let’s see if I’m wrong. Wake me up later.

[@Ninus316]

Im a professional driver, and one time student pilot, and just like automated cars; it wont happen until infrastructure and technology allows if ever. The human factor is the sticking point because drivers are neither good enough nor trained sufficiently for ground travel as it is. If flying cars became a thing, my first purchase would be an anti aircraft gun.

[@annikboyer3395]

I would like to have a flip that is like the comunicator and really working. Even a pin communicater would be good. Having both would be great!

[@NickScrivener]

WTF! Here I am watching Simon as normal and then, some other bloke pops up doing the sponsor bit!

[@JohnBerry-q1h]

*New channel suggestion...* Simon, you should make a KZbin channel called... _Correcting The Misinformation Taught In Public School_ .

[@aneasteregg8171]

So are we getting a video on those robot butlers we haven't got next?

[@HikuroMishiro]

While the problems with flying cars are numerous, dealing with 'traffic jams' like on the road will not be one of them.

[@salty82ndveteran]

This gives 'air-head' a spectacular new meaning LOL

[@TheWookiee1977]

I'm sure people will keep trying to make a flying car, but they'll always end up with something that isn't really good as either a plane or a car. There's a fundamental issue. Aerodynamically, planes are designed for lift, while cars are designed for negative lift (downforce).

[@cturdo]

Putting today's drivers in the air?! Oh the carnage!

[@hershtheonly4799]

George Jetson was born July 31st this year

[@adamc1966]

Anybody ever consider what would happen when two flying cars crash into each other?? Ouch!

[@QMAN4000Films]

We have flying cars already. They’re called helicopters

[@unf3z4nt]

My gods, heard those machines are notoriously difficult to operate.

[@aaronfredrickson9538]

Everyone keeps talking about the extra dimension being the problem. It isn’t. It’s a benefit, it’s more probable to not collide with a greater number of dimensions. 1 dimension is the worst. That would be: in your lane with someone in front and behind. You are literally exponentially less safe this way. The real problem is the need to control the aircraft and not crash and kill yourself as well as those on the ground and the property damage, oh my.

[@jskillet8912]

Think about the pre flight tests you would have to do on one of these things, taking it on the road, and all the debris would cause a huge problem. There's no way you could just drive up to the runway and take off. All those hinges, imagine the flight to flight costs, you would basically have to take it to a specialized mechanic in between every flight. This makes no sense, cars arw good at being cars, theyre not boats or airplanes, why cant we keep it that way?

[@janiceperkins4340]

I suppose it would be just like a pre-trip inspection before a roadtrip in an RV 🤷‍♀️ Not only do I checked all fluids, air pressure/condition of all 6 tires, and lights, I need to check hitch ,safety chains, wheel straps, outside luggage compartment doors, and electric steps! Plus, ensure items/doors inside are secure. Takes some time but I do it every time I hit the road 🤷‍♀️

[@shawngrinter2747]

Have you seen the quality of many people’s driving in two dimensions and you want to let them loose in three?