The Rise of the Flying Car is Finally Happening

[@JcoleMc]

I asked for a flying car but instead you give me an Oversized drone *Screams into pillow*

[@ecoideazventures6417]

Please compare the first plane created by the Wright brothers to the ones we see today. so dont cry, rather invest in any of these startups to become a millionaire one day!

[@imeverywhere9633]

a flying car. ie a plane

[@deanharmse5126]

Guy in 1909...."I asked for an aircraft, but instead you gave me an Oversized kite"...Small steps dude...give this a chance.

[@chrisjenkins9978]

😂🤣😂

[@everythingisfine9988]

@@deanharmse5126 ok, a few decades from now it will a better over sized drone 🧐

[@ryanchow1995]

I948: “we will probably have flying cars in 2020” 2020: Even the planes aren’t flying.

[@albertayunda5521]

🤣🤣🤣

[@Boris_Chang]

I remember as a child at the 1964 World’s Fair in New York, the visions of videophones, kitchen appliances that can prepare complex meals (a la the Star Trek replicator), personal robots, and even self-driving cars and flying cars. We all knew that these easy to imagine concepts would have to wait for technology to catch up: computer technology, battery technology, communications network bandwidth, advanced lightweight materials, etc. But we didn’t really think more than a half-century later, only the videophone would be a reality.

[@klytouch5285]

My share in airlines industries.. noooo ....!!! ..😂😂

[@bertjesklotepino]

@@Boris_Chang that is because society has been dumbed down deliberately. We still have to accept the bullshit technology from the 60's. You know, the only technology capable of getting man on the moon. Even todays technology cant do that. (Even China has not replicated this feat. Not Russia. NOBODY ever tried to get there with newer technology. Not even Musk. And they still use the same lame excuses to try and keep selling the big lie)

[@b-borg8942]

😂

[@DigitalNomadOnFIRE]

"I don't see any flying cars, why?" Because they require self-drivng tech. Humans would crash A LOT if most cars could fly.

[@n1k32h]

So let’s think of current climate. The rise of ufo sightings also is a key indicator to something. Also let’s think of climate plz.

[@b-borg8942]

I rather think it's because of vertigo and the fear of heights it's like when someone gets to the border of a balcony on the twenty-fifth floor for the first time and the price of the flying vehicles. Now with all those new technologies bringing the price lower peoples will have a new transport mode to adapted themself as we did with the balcony.

[@pantest3755]

Not only that, human errors due to in flight system will cause the crashes most of the time. But at times certain life span of the items like it worn out need to be replace. Some managers need to be killed and replace because they take the "risk" factor into consideration. - It can still fly i'll risk it. - then it will crash. True story. Human loves to gamble lives. so they will risk it.

[@theocope6471]

It’s raining drones!

[@fogsworthheperstein3528]

This would be very true

[@stockhuman]

Goodbye, quiet mornings and clear skies.

[@capnsteele3365]

When has the mornings ever been quite for me they always been loud. I live 47 miles from philadelphia

[@MrProzacmilkshake]

@@capnsteele3365 do you like it

[@capnsteele3365]

@@MrProzacmilkshake no but cant change anything

[@manusharma3601]

Yeah that happened when the smarter ones of our ancestors decided to come out of jungles and build cities. If you've got a problem with the technology you can always return to your roots and go live in the lap of mother nature.

[@-HolySpiritDove-]

Rest in Peace ⛅️😇💫

[@kato2395]

Flying cars? If humans crash while driving in X and Y axis imagine what will happen if you add an additional Z axis.

[@thebackpacker6957]

On the road we drive on one layer causing more accidents. But on the sky we can fly 100's of layers Creating more room for each other.

[@tinydough8746]

@@thebackpacker6957 Even if there are hundreds of layers, it still doesn't prevent us from stupid people, and drunk flyers.

[@blvntsessionz924]

tinydough and people who want to cause terror

[@tinydough8746]

@@blvntsessionz924 Yeah, some angry people: "Let's crash into this guy's office cause he pissed me off"

[@optimisticnihlist9705]

theyres no way in hell this tech will come to market without being autonomous, for a whole bunch of reasons

[@TheArfdog]

Mechanical engineer here. There is no way flying cars will be viable anytime soon, not until we have full automation and abundant energy. 1. Energy: To fly takes much more energy than rolling around on paved roads. 2. Safety: Flyers will have to be *much more trained (expensive licensing) vs drivers. And crashes are a little more serious from hundreds of feet at high speed. 3. Cargo: Cannot carry nearly as much cargo/passengers in a flying vehicle vs ground vehicle.... goes back to energy required being much greater.

[@yac161]

“If you want a flying car just put some wheels on a helicopter” Elon Musk.

[@johnluffman7954]

And a sofa

[@liu3gz]

and hire a pilot.

[@nanoshka7484]

And have a few million money in your pocket

[@TitoBobbyPh]

That's why Musk is the most realistic visionary ever

[@thesnare100]

@@nanoshka7484 I guess mass production never happened brought down the costs of helicopters. because there would be too much noise and poor traffic control since it wouldn't be guided by GPS there would be a lot of mid air collisions

[@NYCeesFinest]

No flying cars, no uploading my brain to a computer and living forever, and no robot girlfriends. We've achieved nothing.

[@jpslaym0936]

my girlfriend has the personality of a PS2. Gonna call that a win

[@dajion6]

😂

[@abrahkadabra9501]

They don't make babies in Japan anymore...because all the young men have robot girlfriends. 😨

[@pickles_7]

No sword art online :I

[@evm6177]

- The Natural Awakening - 🍷Gautam Buddah

[@jaypark415]

“Imagine how a loud a drone is. Now imagine that, but a thousand times bigger and louder than a drone”

[@timprex317]

People, this thing flys at over 300m in the sky. You will barely see or hear it.

[@callumosullivan7546]

Elon musk quote

[@roxxedk9897]

Its the comparison to helicopters and being electric that makes them quieter although not perfect. Its the best we got with current tech, that's unless there is a anti gravity device hidden in a bunker somewhere we can use.

[@timprex317]

@Richard Wood wow, you are a smart one. They have option to upgrade a take off point from the top of the building or from station on the river or from anywhere basically. So it will be "loud" for seconds genious. And check some of their videos, it's really not that loud.

[@chrisjenkins9978]

😂🤣😂 You beat me to it. 😂🤣😂

[@CascadiaAviation]

You can’t make something safe by just calling it safety. Trust has to be earned

[@powelllucas4724]

Considering the way most people drive on the ground you would have to walk around all day staring at the sky to avoid the pieces of metal falling to the ground.

[@hipersamlame]

How many pices of metal you see falling from airplanes on a daily basis?

[@grassytramtracks]

@@hipersamlame planes are maintained by large groups of experts and flown by people with years of training and experience - given how terrible people are at driving on land, I don't really want to imagine people flying little planes

[@glennalexon1530]

Bloomberg is the new Popular Mechanics. Next month: 10 Best Screwdrivers!

[@Vosgie88]

I find it cute that Uber is talking about flying cars when they cannot even turn a profit from operating normal cars or couriers on bicycles.

[@andrew_owens7680]

Well of course the pilots will have to provide their own flying cars. That and slave conditions makes it provitable.

[@davidkamen]

What you say is true but cut Uber a break, they need something to hold on to while not making a profit !

[@marinaclarasanchezsuarez2905]

lol

[@TheMightyWej]

There is no need to invent a flying car, we already have it. It's called a helicopter and all the pitfalls of what happens when one falls out of the sky above a city stays the same.

[@capnsteele3365]

Can a helicopter fly at 500 mph no

[@capnsteele3365]

Here's the problem we already tried helicopter mass transportation it did not work too much fuel is taken

[@mrmercy554]

Can helicopters drive can they go 200 mph I hate this argument and a average joe like me can’t afford a helicopter buddy

[@TheMightyWej]

@@capnsteele3365 So what makes you think flying the same mass at the same energy using a drone will take any less 'fuel' as you put it?

[@Stigmaru]

It's not. EVTOLs can be designed with redundant motors and also additional aerodynamic surfaces that helicopters don't have.

[@zvndmvn]

Why don't any of these have a protective mesh around the propellers? One bird strike and you're going down.

[@thesnare100]

because they spin so fast, they'll reduce the bird to cole slaw.........no worries there, cept the mess :)

[@chrisjenkins9978]

@@thesnare100 - No, more like a little-bird-smoothie. 😂🤣😂

[@NarenBRao]

Which in turn should make us think about the devastating effects such flying cars might have on birds. They're already being assaulted by various factors. Elon Musk was right to concentrate on underground transportation which is basically a lifeless mass we could use for building tunnels through.

[@thesnare100]

@@NarenBRao I think pollution/acid rain kills more. How many birds do die of collisions with aircraft? Do you eat poultry?

[@thesnare100]

@@NarenBRao for tunnels what about if there's an earthquake/shifts the tunnel, which will eventually happen, however long it takes, then they will have to be rebuilt/modifier, but that's unavoidable.

[@Udayvir99]

I can’t even imagine the air traffic in the future.

[@kyrexvision9792]

max is right! the world will be lived like a hierarchy, the flying cars will be for middle class and first class, and the low class will still live on ground zero, you know the typical taxi drivers, dirty streets, ghettos. homes will be build up! flyings cars only make sense.

[@Zoza15]

This one of many reasons of these regulations..

[@xincerereyes8081]

NO AIR TRAFFIC WILL BE MADE IF THEY USE MY IDEAS FOR THE TRAFFIC CONTROL ON YOUR SCREEN YOU WILL SEE VIRTUAL LANES OR TUNNELS JUST STAY IN YOUR TUNNEL TILL YOU NEED TO LAND THIS IS SOMETHING I SEEN FROM X RACERS BACK IN THE 90S X RACERS WAS GOING TO BE A RACING AIRPLANE CIRCUIT WHERE THE AIRPLANES HAD KIND OF LIKE TV SCREEN AND ON THE SCREEN WOULD BE DISPLAYED THE MAP OR COURSE OF TRAVEL YOU HAVE TO FLY THROUGH THE RINGS IT WAS ALL MADE THE PROGRAMS TO GET THIS DONE ARE OUT THERE AND HAVE BEEN OUT THERE SINCE 94 95 LOOK UP X RACERS IN POPULAR SCIENCE OR POPULAR MECHANICS MAGS FROM THAT TIMELINE YOU'LL SEE WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT FURTHERMORE YOU AREN'T GONNA FLY ANYTHING YOU GET INTO THE AIRCAR AND SAY CORTANA OR ALEXA TAKE ME TO NEW YORK CITY 5TH AND SAX AND THE CRAFT WILL TAKE OFF FLY YOU TO NEW YORK AND WAKE YOU UP WHEN YOU GET THERE IF ITS A LONG TRIP THEY CAN FLY THEMSELVES USING GOOGLE MAPS IVE HAD ALL THIS READY TO GO DON'T WORRY ILL BUILD MINE SOON IM JUST FUNDING MY STARCAR ALONE BUT IM WAY AHEAD OF THE WORLD WITH MY DESIGNS THEY USE PROPS AND ELECTRIC MOTORS I USE MICRO JET ENGINES FOR VERTICAL TAKE OF AND LIFT AND HOVER AND JET ENGINES FOR FORWARD THRUST MY FUEL SOURCE IS WATER I HAVE A MINI HYDROGEN REACTOR THAT RUNS ON TWO FREQUENCIES TO SPLIT THE WATER THROUGH ELECTROLYSIS INTO A STRONGER HYDROGEN CELL THAN YOU CAN FIND I HAVE THE BLUEPRINTS FROM THE ORIGINAL INVENTOR OF THE CAR THAT RAN ON WATER IN THE 80S MY CRAFT CANT BE BEAT AND ILL BET MY LIFE THAT IT'LL BEAT ANYONE IN ANY CONTEST WITH MY STARCAR YOUR FLYING CARS HAVE NO CHANCE AGAINST XINCERES STAR

[@nikobelic4251]

@@xincerereyes8081 why in all caps?

[@christ-is-king3268]

@@nikobelic4251 😂😂 lol.

[@Arezzy17]

They aren’t really competing with cars or helicopters, they are competing with Zoom and Teams...

[@treeflip7]

You're assuming humans want to live that way. I certainly don't.

[@NicheAsQuiche]

@@treeflip7 in most cases, the market/employers will prefer the cheaper option

[@lelagrangeeffectphysics4120]

@@NicheAsQuiche that is correct. Who wants to spend 20$ per day on drone rides when one can speend 5cents on electricity and and network power for a teams meeting, it just doesnt compensate, i wouldnt be surprised if the shift to telework kills this trend before it starts or relegates it to recreational use.

[@daviewz9335]

@@treeflip7 You say that now 😏.

[@TB0NEx]

@@lelagrangeeffectphysics4120 You are assuming that people only travel when they need to meet face to face for a meeting? If that were the case the roads would already be empty

[@juniornutshell]

So in Beijing, you get off a high speed train, then go underground to a thorough low speed train network for your destination. Can you imagine the swarms of aircraft blacking out the sun if everyone in Beijing flew?!

[@zhuolixie5922]

Well, at least for the next several years, it will not happen en masse

[@goigle]

This won't be for the average person, this will be for execs etc at first. Think about your daily life and how many helipads you're near, for most people that's going to be near 0. Execs / corporate people in high rises are much closer to helipads and can benefit more from this time saving.

[@juniornutshell]

@@zhuolixie5922 PRC airspace already congested with regular aircraft

[@madsam0320]

China can modernise the air traffic control system. The current system is conventional, using paper strips, keeping aircraft two minutes from each other. A super computer virtual system can pack the air space tightly, maybe even making the pilots relinquishing control to the computers in congested spaces. Also the PLA Air Force is hogging too much air space. There’s no real needs for them to do so, considering they only need to patrol the borders and train in remote places. Other advanced countries airforce don’t hog air space and China is not like few decades before with not much civilian planes competing for air space.

[@mrpandupatel]

That's why they are making artificial sun literally.

[@BlunderMunchkin]

Vast noise pollution, lower safety margins, and greater energy cost. Of course people will want to own one.

[@yesjoeri1]

basically all these developers are working tirelessly to serve a few rich people

[@user-lr6hw4dq4t]

Same as airplane at their first age,they just for rich people, then technology become cheaper.

[@Stigmaru]

same as every product in the world. someone's gotta pay for initial R&D cost

[@offwhitemke]

The total capacity to transport passengers with these small vehicles is severely limited. I just don't see how it would be feasible. What is far more likely is a network of tunnels (above and below ground) which can move hundreds of people at a time without concern about rain or snow. Safely maintaining hundreds of flying vehicles would be labor intensive and also very difficult. And the cost of a single crash would likely unrecoverable. I'd feel much safer in a light train in an enclosed tunnel. It will be far less labor intensive to maintain and the risk of death is much lower. If the train loses power it simply slows down and comes to a stop. That is hard to compare to the outcome of a flying vehicle going over a populated city. This may be a fine option for a small number of people, but it just won't work for mass transit. And without a lot of repeat customers I do not see how it can be funded.

[@catwhisperer9524]

*Elon steps in the room with his Boring Company

[@KCJbomberFTW]

I think these will work in tandem with tunnels for certain situations such as landing on towers or leaving an urban area and flying directly to a suburban area where tunnels are compromised

[@zaysview8095]

Much easier to make these cars . Cost efficiency will win and fuel

[@DomClancy]

Same thing could be said of the Model T

[@marinaclarasanchezsuarez2905]

@@KCJbomberFTW It already existe ....helicópteros😄👍

[@jollybee3432]

A captain of a space station screaming " I don't see any flying cars! WHY!? WHY!? WHY!?" made me spit my coffee 😂😂

[@paulo4371]

EHANG dubbed “Jetsons” is pioneering the urban autonomous drones. Now they are permitted and licensed to deliver packages in China (all of that flight hours of data) will put them ahead of everyone.

[@ivanbliminse4325]

It would be easier to put wheels on a helicopter than wings on a car

[@justacrow9847]

When millions of these are mass produced, they're gonna zigzag above our heads in the cities and in the country side. They be loud and the more there is, the more malfunctions and drops down on homes and on people. What madness is that? How about high speed electric trains to take the passengers around the crowded cities? Safe, quiet and clean.

[@vice.nor.virtue]

People said very very similar things about cars and trains, and in some ways they were correct. But these forms of transportation were a necessary revolution. Drones are arguably the same in that regard......and yes, 'murica does absolutely need rail investment.

[@odomisan]

Finally a sound comment from the sea of dumb comment section.

[@odomisan]

@@vice.nor.virtue Umm...no. not the same at all. Vehicles that are grounded at the very least, they are only a few inches away from the ground. Cars have rubber tires and brakes. There is no stopping a drone from gravity.

[@realBeffJezos]

ehang already has a commercial product and is selling it already, the are clearly leading that branch

[@qizhang4077]

China's strongest will be Geely and BYD.

[@pierrefave8811]

Why do they call an actual helicopter, or big drone a flying car just to make it more disruptive ? Just rich people dreaming of a bladerunner-like future…

[@Nyruami]

Maybe you should also have reported that Velocopter tried to register their product and every single air transport authority in the world told them "No". They are allowed to register the Velocopter as a helicopter but that means you need a helicopter license to run those things, you are only allowed to start and land from registered helipads, and of course, you are fully under the authority of your local air transport authority which simply means that you aren´t allowed to do anything at your own, you need to file each flight at least 30 minutes prior to the planned starting time, you need to file your landing point, the way you want to take and you have to observe all no-fly zones. So no leisurely lifting off whenever you want, no going wherever you want, no landing wherever you want, they understood that their product would be useless if registered as a helicopter because it´s more expensive than a helicopter, has far less range, is slower, so nobody with a helicopter license would ever buy it. That´s why the Velocopter meanwhile is finished and ready to mass-produce for over 8 years, and still doesn´t exist, which will never change. Air transport authorities like the NTSB or the EATA are pretty proud that air travel is as safe as it is, they will not allow cowboys with drones to fly in their airspace. Never.

[@ranwest2213]

Why so much talk about moving around the dense urban cores? That is not where these are required! The one to two hour travel gap around the city center is the market for this. Bypassing all that traffic would be a huge incentive.

[@marcv2648]

This has been my thought for a long time. The time and effort cost in a city is just way too high. It's not going to be worth all the trouble unless you are going to save an hour minimum, which includes transport to and from your eVTOL location. The time and trouble is too high for relatively short trips even if price doesn't matter.

[@jumpergaming7144]

In 2021 they don't make flying cars they make! Electric car

[@dummyxl]

If everyone is moving through air, there's no need for roads anymore. The world can be more compact and green. A man can dream.

[@hitsongsa]

Can build a city based on flying cars. Would be beautiful.

[@Roxas99Yami]

Ah yes the classic: we have reinvented the helicopter. Took the automobile and put an electric motor on it. Took a chopper and did the same. Invented the drone HA. But seriously what drives me crazy here is the :silent and efficient" claims. Like sure drone transport is at least within our technological reach unlike some others "cough hypoerloop cough". But it is nowhere near as silent. Anyone who knows how propeller craft work, knows that a lot of the source of noise comes from the prop itself. Albeit at certain frequencies of sound, still. On idle, the engine and prop have the same noise, but when you spin the prop, the noise goes up drastically even in flight. Electric motors are silent but you have 6 huge airplane props spinning on that drone that will drum your ears the same as a chopper landing right above you. My second problem with this is air traffic control. For those of us who know radio language and the fact that you have to be very attentive towards many instruments during flight, it would seem sort of a joke for you to have the common bloke going around in a drone drunk or high and causing damage that is not very appreciated. Like realistically. What will you do in an air crash even? How many certified airplane or helicopter pilots do you know that have clearance to fly between buildings. Like what? You see any sane minded person give clearance for this in any metropolis? So yea that rules out almost completely this being allowed as a personal vehicle. Also may i remind you a lot of this video is CGI when it comes to the actual concept. Even the built ones are being probably driven by professionals, and not some random citizen.

[@ljr1200]

Uber has always excelled in developing innovative animations...

[@johnwhodat8135]

😄😄😄

[@raymondhuot1684]

A factor that is always overlooked is the sound pollution ! Is there anyone willing to have a whirling machine passing over his house ? It will have to be addressed and restrained to certain location. The myth of a flyIng car landing in front of a suburban house is unreal !

[@timothytikker1147]

The Samson Switchblade flying car, which had its first test flight last week, was designed to have a quieter motor, so as to address the problem you cite. Besides that, while it can be parked in a garage at home, it needs to take off from an airport, so would be driven to one instead of taking off from home.

[@schylerlewis8467]

One word brings this to a full stop. Safety. Not happening any time soon

[@tdgdbs1]

Only feasible if completely autonomous without any human's input.

[@mandelbrot4632]

Right, as well as noise pollution. A small drone produces already annoying sounds, not to imagine these 18 rotor megadrones. Noone wants this in an already noisy city, this cannot be the future. The future has to be a less noisy city with overall less stress factors.

[@schylerlewis8467]

@@mandelbrot4632 I don't think anything in this video was actually well thought out or researched. A drone is a broad term for many unmanned vehicles. Ultimately this is a quadcopter not a drone. And those annoying drone motors when scaled are SO much louder.

[@yukmingchen6334]

It is no surprise, any air plane must be able to drive before it can fly.

[@derekbirmingham9534]

I wonder why they dont use hydrogen? A hydrogen drone can fly for 4 hours, electric drones can only for 30 minutes.

[@MP-wt9kz]

HIgher risk of an explosion?

[@joshuapatrick682]

Imagine the sky full of these ramming into each other, then falling and hitting who knows what/who as they inevitably will. No air traffic control means it would literally be a case of reverse Darwinian selection for the rich/dumb.

[@freetolook3727]

We can't drive cars, what makes you think we can drive flying cars?

[@mizzypoo4827]

Specially some idiot son/daughter decide to joyride on daddy flying car, High on drug or drunk... Suddenly decide to land on your head.😲-->💀--->👻

[@thatssomewackshitbro8617]

Probably AI driven

[@eclisis5080]

A helicopter is a flying car, what people really men flying cars that still behave like cars on the ground, which would take an entirely different type propulsion system that hasn't been invented yet

[@Alesscamera]

The Ehang looks so cool!

[@qizhang4077]

Geely

[@anthonystone2089]

Anti gravity floating cars have not been invented. Automated drones is the best we can do at the moment.

[@ittastelikekool-aid7483]

This is not a flying car, it's basically a helicopter with four wheels. In order to have a real flying car, you need to conquer levitation like the DeLorean Doc Brown designed in Back to the Future.

[@roisingtommy]

Doc Brown was way ahead of his time.

[@MrSridharMurthy]

What about today's Online working-from-home! More people are reducing their travel time on the road and learning to conserve their energy to be more productive from home. Where do you see that going?

[@CactusCowboyDan]

Not everyone can work from home. Especially construction workers and farmers.

[@masonvespa4077]

Korean goverment giving them permmision to fly a car. Korean goverment secretly asking for two 911 rescue teams to come just in case

[@lordlee6473]

There won’t be any flying car until a new energy source is discovered

[@rehanansar8858]

By the time it'll reach to ordinary people, it'd acquire the shape of current transport mode.

[@Avantime]

As a pilot, these "flying cars" will never be commercially successful, and most won't emerge from the experimental stage. While I do think that they can be made safer than helicopters, they still can't fly in conditions that a helicopter cannot, and that makes them an unreliable mode of transport. For example low clouds and ice accumulation in the winter, and since they're so light they're liable to be tossed around like toys in turbulence compared to bigger, heavier aircraft (anyone who flew in an LSA vs a C172 would know, the LSAs simply lack the stability that the Cessna offers because they're so light). This can mean major discomfort/scares for the passenger, and possible injury (they'll need a 5-pt seat belt, and it MUST be tightened. And no loose objects). In addition the noise NIMBY-ism would make most point-to-point travel impossible. IMO the only way they'll work commercially is via established shuttle routes to a few purpose-built facilities - but they're difficult to build because places that people will want to go are already built up.

[@thesnare100]

hmm, maybe if they're made of graphene could that be durable enough?

[@Avantime]

@@thesnare100 it's not durability, but inertia that is needed for stability. The more weight an object has, the better it will resist turbulence. But more weight means more thrust is needed to stay aloft, meaning more noise (imagine the noise of helicopters all day, non-stop), more rotor downwash blasting the ground, and more expensive machines.

[@thesnare100]

@@Avantime well, then what would be the minimum mass needed? I mean there are small planes already, like fighter jets that can withstand very adverse conditions.

[@Avantime]

@@thesnare100 We're talking about riding comfort not structural integrity, for anyone from kids to seniors to people who had too big of a lunch. As such a fighter jet is a poor comparison (they're designed with *instability* in mind for better manoeuvrability.). A better comparison is a Cessna 172, which weighs ~2000lbs/900kgs empty with fuel. For a helicopter an R44 weighs 1640lbs/740kgs empty with fuel, but helicopters are a lot less stable than fixed wing aircraft.

[@newstheydidnttellus2982]

1990s was a great decade.

[@ChickenBoo1989]

Back to the future 2010: we have flying cars. 2021: we have electric scooters that are slightly faster than walking.

[@joetheperformer]

Imagine regulating 3-dimensional 5 o’clock traffic. Fuck, that’ll be something else...

[@timothytikker1147]

The Samson Switchblade flying car had its first test flight last week (November 2023). It's a sports car with wings for flight that fold into the body/fuselage for driving. It can be parked at home, then driven to a community airport for takeoff, land at another community airport, then be driven from there to the final destination. Range is c. 400-450 miles, top flight speed 200 MPH, cruising speed 160 MPH. The design incorporates measures to reduce engine noise as much as possible.

[@alvarortega2]

Unless business travel (to subsidize it) comes back, like the Renaissance of supersonic flying described a few weeks ago, this (also) is going nowhere...

[@exiled_londoner]

Interesting video, but what on Earth is a 'cardray' (0:43)? Does he mean a cadre?

[@marco.nascimento]

It's quite challenging because the whole infrastructure of cities will have to adapt to this new reality.

[@fobudomh]

Privacy and security risks also needs to be assessed. Who is stopping them in bumping into someone's private property or trespassing a government property.

[@zacsstevens]

Agreed - we’re a long way off this being a reality. Not because we can’t have flying drone taxis, but more because of the infastructure, weather conditions, gov regulations, etc...

[@julwiezdeghorz5089]

Agree, imagine a flying Aventador and flying Vanquish collided, the impact would be great and those flying cars will be thrown right into the buildings nearby and boom!

[@odomisan]

True. They need reinforced canopy to protect them from all these dropping from the sky.

[@odomisan]

@@zacsstevens Have you seen how cab drivers drive? And if you research why there are regulations, you can only be thankful to have them.

[@Paccekabuddha]

Build more subways, those are electric, Cheaper and transport millions of people daily

[@dalemurray4083]

We've had flying cars for a century, they're called AIRPLANES!!!

[@nikobelic4251]

Not really, too complex for the average person to use with no training, unable to land in tight areas, too noisy, pollutes too much. I LOVE planes they are my reason to live but an Airplane is not a flying car.

[@dalemurray4083]

@@nikobelic4251 If you compare a modern car to a model A Ford. it wasn't a car either. Transmission types, Parking, handling, cupholders etc,,, are details. the essential function is a means of transport, and an airplane is a flying means of transport.

[@nikobelic4251]

@@dalemurray4083 a modern car is magnitudes times closer to a 1900s Ford than to even a Cessna 152 let alone a Commercial Airliner.

[@dalemurray4083]

@@nikobelic4251 So how many of those differences are because a "car" is controlled and operated in 2 distentions and a Airplane is operated and controlled in 3 dimensions? A flying car will have to operate in 3 dimensions too. If those differences are what make an airplane essentially different from a car, then the entire concept of a Flying Car is impossible.

[@nikobelic4251]

@@dalemurray4083 no, you said “we already have flying cars they are called airplanes” Which I completely disagreed with These are not planes Planes are fixed wings, require runways, are far more complicate to operate and require more space. EVTOLS/ Flying Cars ≠ Airplanes

[@chraosta]

The amount of people thinking that regular citizens would be piloting these is insane... They're most likely gonna be all autopilot with a certified pilot on board just in case of emergency, smh

[@robertlee8805]

Looking for HYPERLOOP for HIGH-SPEED state to state travel just under 15 minutes instead if hours.

[@samuelthornton9179]

Hyperloops will never happen.

[@MSaleh-vy8rr]

Hyperloop is a very ambitious project but might not happen.

[@GotEmAll1337]

Just type in that search box up there: Thunderf00t hyperloop....then prepare to have your bubble burst.

[@nikobelic4251]

@@GotEmAll1337 yup lol

[@kalukutta]

We need minimum transportation of any type. For that we need homes near our work place. For that to happen we don't need city centres, business parks or industrial areas. Cities should be planned accordingly

[@sreekarpradyumna]

Yup. I bet they'll be super quiet and not deafening at all.

[@manusharma3601]

Yeah just like present day traffic is so quiet

[@manusharma3601]

@Bruh Moment yeah it's comparable. Come to New York once and you'll wish to spend your life near a small town airport

[@manusharma3601]

@Bruh Moment distance mattere mate! Real traffic is feets away from you while the drones and planes are flying hundreds of feets in the sky. Anyway, if it does turn out to be a real problem, people will simply not adopt the technologies. We have rejected many technologies before because they weren't comfortable enough

[@manusharma3601]

@Bruh Moment you are really trying to compare noise made by jets to that made by drones?

[@TraderJason1]

“The horse is here to stay but the automobile is only a novelty - a fad.” - 1903: President of the Michigan Savings Bank advising Henry Ford’s lawyer, Horace Rackham, not to invest in the Ford Motor Company.

[@dru4670]

Flying car = helicopter

[@stephenmullenax7346]

@FBI ah! but some do

[@ethanf.6848]

For mass market adoption, it should be flight by electromagnetic levitation where vehicles are constrained to travel along fixed roadways and not these "helicopters" with redundant rotors.

[@bogtrotter5110]

Whenever I hear the words price point, instead of price, my scam radar goes off.

[@almerindaromeira8352]

It's marketing buzzword BS like integrated, blockchain, machine learning, disruptive and many more

[@drescherjm]

When I hear the words price point it likely means me as a member of the middle class can't afford it.

[@abrahkadabra9501]

If the COVID -19 pandemic did anything it was to show everyone that working and studying online from home is not only possible, in some cases it's the better option. I totally get the need for human interaction but we're a very adaptable species. The Internet is the flying car's biggest threat.

[@damnperrys1]

My biggest concern is that most folks are unable to drive a vehicle safely on the ground. I can only imagine the troubles caused when these folks are able to fly!

[@JJs_playground]

Consumers will not be flying these drones. Initially it will be licensed pilots flying them and eventually they will be autonomous

[@yuliu6175]

autopilot could solve that

[@nikobelic4251]

@@yuliu6175 it wouldn’t be autopilot it would be AI Autopilot ≠ AI

[@jv-lk7bc]

@@yuliu6175 yep, because that worked out so well for Boeing...

[@historry9323]

When a guy says the sky is going to be full anytime soon you know it's best not to step in any craft his hands worked on, lol

[@sukran96]

We don’t need flying car any more, we have already learned to do everything from our living room thanks to pandemic 😷

[@raviteza8]

The presenter is wrong , we wont shift the congestion from road to air, but from 2D to 3D. In other words we reduce the congestion.

[@Gazzapa57]

The Ehang is the coolest looking one but Volocopter appears to be the safest.

[@StephenSmith304]

This video will surely age well.

[@the_freedom_quest]

Ehang is by far the most promising one.

[@salilnair8000]

None of these are " flying cars ". These are just varied versions of helicopters or oversized drones that wont fit in a downtown traffic. A true flying car needs to be just that - a car that flies. Electric cars did not get into the mainstream until they started to look a little better than golf carts.

[@johnl.7754]

I think for mass market flying cars that it has to be AI controlled for safety reasons. Human reaction and control is not developed enough and the damage is too great with accidents.

[@joedockstader1347]

You're not wrong, but you're conflating two separate subjects. Multirotor aircraft require computer stabilization for any kind of controlled flight, because of the incredible reaction times required to keep them stable. That's not, however, why they need to be flown entirely autonomously. The reason for that is much more to do with human judgement and decision-making than reaction time or skill.

[@nikobelic4251]

@@joedockstader1347 there is also 0 way to train hundreds of thousands to millions of people to handle these things on a day to day basis. Most people can’t even afford a PPl can you imagine if they had to get an Instrument rating to fly when visibility was low....? I think the big ones (the ones more like flying buses) will keep a pilot on board the other ones that have 4 seats and less will not have a pilot, only the passengers.

[@joshuapatrick682]

This is an interesting piece of tech that will only ever be a novelty owned by retired pro athletes. There cannot be a scenario where this is adopted on any scale that is meaningful to its purported goal. It would be carnage raining from the sky and everyone would be walking around in fear that they’d be the next one to get taken out by one of these nightmares crashing into them outside or even in their house. If anyone does adopt this it would have to be so extremely limited

[@nayemhere1]

yes we got "flying cars" but they got big wings, jet's and they're shaped like "plane"🥴

[@PacoOtis]

As a retired pilot my thoughts tend to drift to turbulence and other rough flight conditions. The aircraft will likely handle it, but the public may not. Exciting times await us!

[@nikobelic4251]

I know, I am currently a Piper warrior driver and people who have never been on a small plane (as in a 4 seater plane) don’t understand how much small aircraft get bumped around in turbulence. A lot of people get airsick their first few times in small planes.... Barf bags galore

[@jv-lk7bc]

'exciting' he says. When a pilot uses that word ...

[@nikobelic4251]

@@jv-lk7bc lol yup

[@koolzdude]

People can’t drive these day let alone flying

[@user-lr6hw4dq4t]

19 century people : airplane? Haha r u kidding.. 21 century people : flying car? Haha, r u kiidding..

[@peterk3474]

I hope this never developes. Imagine having a continual stream of helicopters over you.

[@gabefimbres]

I imagine people living in cities before the automobile said the same when comparing a car to a horse. Which is one reason we have noise ordinances in cities because cars can be loud to.

[@odomisan]

it's not the flying ones you need to worry about. Its the ones that are falling towards you.

[@jv-lk7bc]

@@gabefimbres they didn't have cities of the kind we know before the automobile. and a flyer is massively different from the change from horse to car. When we're all flying ostriches (or dragons) to work, then there will be a parallel.

[@theworldischanging968]

we already have flying cars and flying trucks, they are called planes and helicopters.

[@kelsangjorlam5770]

well said.. you obviously use your noodle for thinking, unlike most folk who put their's to sleep in front of the box...

[@theworldischanging968]

@@kelsangjorlam5770 hahaha..

[@tejt7305]

I think the future lies in the British 1950's Fairey Rotodyne which could go straight up and down, hover and then fly with the efficiency of a plane. It had thousands of test hours, could carry 40-48 and was completely successful but was scrapped due to politics. For some specs: Speed = 343 km/h; Range = 724 km

[@LordSandwichII]

It was scrapped because it was extremely loud; a problem the modern drone designs still have.

[@marinaclarasanchezsuarez2905]

Hidrógeno ones??

[@darioinfini]

Check back in 10 years. See how this video aged. I can tell you right now how it's going to age.

[@wiizyu]

I hate the noise already

[@BuildingCenter]

Tiny great thing: Beeps when names are on screen. Thanks. Some intern whose attention drifts realized a way to ensure refocusing among the portion of the audience who might also look away, get distracted, start a separate project, while learning about our shared skycar future.

[@Telencephelon]

But they are not silent either. None of the videos has ever actually shown real footage. A Dji Drone is already considerably loud

[@cleverjohniawphniaw8244]

I think only if we can go against gravity, maybe we could have flying cars

[@PTExp]

Great video. I'd suggest losing the little chime in the video, it makes people look for notifications on all their devices and is a bit annoying.

[@LalallaSN]

Here's why we don't. Kobe Bryant. Those flying cars are just helicopter with extra blades.

[@moe2579]

Flying car would’ve to be autonomous And each vehicle needs to be able to communicate with each other. Otherwise if it crashes you die or fall to your death.

[@odomisan]

and the driver must qualify from a rigorous pilot training as a backup to the autonomous function.

[@jpii8468]

People can't even drive, yet we expect them to fly? Not gonna happen. And, technology isn't nearly as advanced as we think. Servers crash and tech freezes all the time. Maybe in another 100yrs.

[@babylebron6119]

The problem with flying is the high energy needed to overcome gravity 🥱 flying is an economic disaster

[@thecarman3693]

Yes. Just staying in place requires the equivalent power output to horizontally accelerate the vehicle to 60 mph in about 2.5 seconds. Continuously.

[@jestes7]

Not only that, but sound will always be an issue

[@gmooney1111]

Why are the street lines curved @1:46 ?

[@gmooney1111]

?

[@MSaleh-vy8rr]

"The Rise of EVTOL transportation aircraft" See I fixed the title. There's no flying cars, and the thing about scifi movies show those vehicles to have a fictional propulsion system like anti-gravity. We don't have that, and propellers are too loud.

[@mathewomolo]

These are not flying cars. these are drones. I was promised flying cars

[@nathandecena7694]

You know they must be completely autonomous otherwise we'll have raining cars (not ignoring that still accidents could happen) 😟

[@joaodecarvalho7012]

Flying cars are a silly sci-fi fantasy. People want them because they are cool. But they are also noisy, are not energy efficient, and people don't like things flying above their heads. Elon Musk also shares this view. The future of urban mobility is underground.

[@jhill4874]

IMO it's not a flying car if it requires an airport to take off and land.

[@odomisan]

when you get to your senses and realize that most people already fail at driving, you can only be thankful that these things are restricted.

[@brianjennings7644]

Google Maps directed me to a non-existent Dollar Tree yesterday.. (even had 60+ reviews.. not been a store there in 15 yrs). .. now, who's gonna insure a flying car? twice.?