What the 2000s Thought Today Would Be: Flying Cars

[@knowledgehusk]

here's my other channel it's cool with a capital cool kzbin.info

[@christiandauz3742]

I rather have flying cars in the year 100 if it means no religion

[@maciejwaciej]

cool

[@smithyMcjoe]

@@christiandauz3742 3edgy5me

[@williamwalker39]

Blade Runner style flying cars are now possible! The arguments in this video no longer apply because the technology has changed. Affordable real roadable Blade Runner style flying cars for the masses are now possible, and we are developing such a vehicle called Sky Chaser. It has 4 car wheels and looks and drives like a car, and flies both vertically and horizontally, and is even amphibian. It will be both manual and fully autonomous. Sky Chaser has no exposed rotors and no unfolding wings, and uses the body as a wing. It just flies the way it looks! It is fully electric and eventually will be hydrogen powered, giving it hours of range. We have developed a full scale working prototype. Now we are looking for partners to help develop a manned version. Our goal is to develop the vehicle for mass production for personal transportation. The design is very simple and should be affordable for all. For more information, click on the icon at the top left and the links below: *Website: SkyChaser.se *Project Presentation: drive.google.com/file/d/1FAdls15OriuQ4hoD2xPwXeNQDQTKpK1t/view?usp=drive_link *evtol News article 1: evtol.news/sky-chaser-concept-design *evtol news article 2: evtol.news/sky-chaser *Simulation tests: drive.google.com/file/d/19taPDO1yERAumR8OV1IFk2n1TqNLNUkN/view?usp=drive_link *Full Scale hover test: drive.google.com/file/d/1qDl5X142uC5yt_5Xcb0GUS3h-LgD4P0V/view?usp=drive_link

[@ricarlab.967]

People here are gonna be getting Real Robot anime mechs long before flying cars become common

[@USSAnimeNCC-]

You know it man 🤣

[@darksion124]

Its already commercially available look up kuratas.

[@BurningmonkeyGTR]

Look up the J-Deite Ride, is a real life transformation that can walk or drive with 2 people on board, intended as a theme park attraction

[@lizerdspherex]

I'd rather be one and have a qt girl ride inside my chassis.

[@spinyslasher6586]

We've made more real progress in robotics and spacecraft than in fucking flying cars.

[@airwick4u]

People can hardly drive normal cars as it is, giving them another axis of movement doesn't seem to be the best idea. Imagine Karen flying at 300km/h in her flying soccermom suv while looking at her phone.

[@robertharris6092]

The phone part is actualy less of an issue since theres. Nothing to hit. And there should be an auto piolet to keep the car steady. Unless it becomes so common that you have air roads like in back to the future p2.

[@bluemobster0023]

@@robertharris6092 until they tip too far down and your past the point of return

[@robertharris6092]

@@bluemobster0023 what part of auto piolet do you not understand?

[@bluemobster0023]

@@robertharris6092 the part where air planes have fallen even with auto pilot idiot

[@lajya01]

There's no way a flying car will be manually piloted. But an auto pilot for a flying car is much much easier to implement than a regular car. The sky is heavily regulated and not much to deal with while the roads are chaos.

[@sergiom.a.1236]

I remember being a kid on the late 00s and seeing people bargaining about how Back to the Future 2 lied to us.

[@USSAnimeNCC-]

Worst movie ever imo it repeat the same old plot it just the same old car with a different but weird paint job I prefer to skip it and go to 3 😂

[@lukegibb1967]

@@USSAnimeNCC- are you high

[@lajya01]

@@USSAnimeNCC- The whole part in 2015 is odd because they were stuck with the ending of part I and they didn't expect to make a sequel. The real plot start in 1985-A because the theme of part II was dealing with an altered history.

[@raptorfromthe6ix833]

@@lukegibb1967 nah hes special

[@FelipeJaquez]

@@USSAnimeNCC- We all know the classic pfp criteria needed to have a good opinion on the internet and you my friend do not meet it.

[@augustus331]

As Neil Degrasse Tyson said: Flying cars are called helicopters. Vehicles that have to create the downward pressure to lift it are loud, which is why they aren't used.

[@fnorgen]

Even the legit attempts at creating a "flying car" are doomed to to make a vehicle that is simultaneously a really shitty and unsafe helicopter/small aeroplane and a really shitty car. Cool in concept, but lame and enormously impractical in practice.

[@ofthecaribbean]

@@fnorgenThat and the fact that getting a pilot's license is ridiculously expensive. But I think the issue is that they try to be too many things at once. If they focused on making a smaller and safer helicopter or plane it would be easier to make something that actually works

[@macmurfy2jka]

@@fnorgen the only real exemption being those motorcycle gyrocopter/autogyros.

[@macmurfy2jka]

@@ofthecaribbean again that already exists in autogyros. Don’t ask me why they aren’t more popular; supposedly they are cheep to run, easy to fly, and more safe than an ultralight. The real problem is the lack of any real infrastructure to use aircraft. In places where that isn’t as much a problem or better than the alternative we do se more use of private air transport, see the Northwest coast of North America.

[@ofthecaribbean]

@@macmurfy2jka There's just not that big of a meme attached to autogros as flying cars. Its a buzzword. A practical synonym for science and futurism. The problem is marketing. That and the lisence

[@pgwchaos]

The idea of flying cars is one of the scariest things I can think of, people already can't drive normal cars giving them a new direction is just asking for trouble.

[@malarie-susangold9259]

Exactly this. I can't trust people to drive but flying is ok?

[@doritos4956]

Also what if someone forgot to change the fuel or something that you have to change for it to workor it just stopped working because something happened what if the person driving it freaked out cause of the height

[@ThruThaRoofComedy]

Australian Dashcam January 2052 BIGGEST FAILS

[@Not-Great-at-Gaming]

Self driving cars need to be perfected first.

[@Alphoric]

So you’ve never seen a small plane on a runway driving along like every single plane does.

[@katethegoat7507]

It's wild how all of these are just.. weird planes or awkward helicopters. Like, if you want a flying car *that* bad, just buy a helicopter instead.

[@sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986]

That’s what I never understood about this obsession literally all these people want is essentially a small personal helicopter that LOOKS like a car. But if it flies in the air it doesn’t need to look like a ground vehicle so why would it?

[@katethegoat7507]

@@colton_sallo that, 100%. If flying was that easy and good, everyone would be using cheap helicopters.

[@asdfasdfasdf1218]

It gets more clicks if you call your new type of helicopter a "flying car," like those drone-like vertical takeoff vehicles for air taxis.

[@fabian.slr06]

Yeah, I mean are flying cars helicopter or airplanes anyways

[@joshgroban5291]

@@sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986 because people want the equivalent of suburban vehicle for some reason lmao

[@NexusApollo]

It's always nice to see Tyler form coherent sentences now that he's recovered from insanity.

[@NaCl1252]

Chop the trees Collect the wood you’re in debt *but it’s all gooood*

[@jdowg494]

wHaT?

[@anonymousmobster2444]

Wdym?

[@nanonymous9139]

He's in remission

[@SergioBocanegra]

agreed when the pandemic started we saw him descend into pessimistic madness so i unsubed for 6 months and i was recently surprised to discover his videos have made a comeback so i hope things keep improving for him.

[@LifeEnemy]

Just imagine all the training needed and liability issues surrounding flying cars. Not hard to imagine they'll never happen! Maybe sky-taxis?

[@switchplayer1016]

5 minutes on the freeway should be enough to convince anyone that everyone having flying cars is a bad idea.

[@lajya01]

If flying cars happen it will be automated sky taxis. It will be insane to give them manual pilot

[@LeoMkII]

proper public transport is the future

[@g_l_a_d3665]

We already have helicopters. Yes they require a lot of training to fly properly.

[@sirnikkel6746]

@@LeoMkII Is actually the past. Flying public transport existed and exist: They are called *airplanes.*

[@infinitelybanta]

"Over 10,000 hours of simulated and live flight tests" - Read: "10,000 hours of simulated flight and 20 minutes in the actual air. See, we're not lying!"

[@marcello7781]

Cueball: It's 2011. I want my flying car. Megan: Dude. You're complaining to me on a phone, on which you buy and read books, and which you were using to play a 3D shooter until I interrupted you with what would be a video call if I were wearing a shirt. Cueball: Can't I have a flying car, too? Megan: You'd crash it while texting and playing Angry Birds -xkcd, "Flying Cars"

[@pissqueendanniella4688]

So much this. As a perpetual pedistrian I probably don't notice nearly as much about drivers as other drivers may however I cannot go a full 7 days without either almost being involved in or witnessing a near wreck and the WITHOUT FAIL UNIFYING DETAIL of each situation: one of the fuxking drivers is on their fuxking phone. Humans are not ready for flying cars. Humans will never be ready for flying cars. Lets just like work on eliminating the human driver aspect before even dreaming of letting the general population our species pilot any more vehicles. Or like literally ANYTHING ELSE that is actually a worthwhile endeavour (like solving one of the many MANY extential crisis we are facing most of which would get significantly worse with mass adoption of flying cars)

[@connoremsley1692]

Of course XKCD covered this topic... of course they did...

[@kingvinoda3896]

The cars from the Jetsons were not only capable of flying, they could also take the family to space all the way to Pluto like it was a roadtrip. I want that.

[@coloradohyperion]

I can only imagine the sheer number of posthumous DUI's.

[@Leonyithas]

Oh yeah. Thats a fucking reason right there why we don’t have flying cars. A crash at 300 ft in the air is a disaster that would take more lives than just the travelers... Imagine still trying to sell your product when theres a viral video of it doing something like that.

[@nuclearbomb9483]

@@Leonyithas I can already see all of those spicy liveleak videos.

[@CatsEyethePsycho]

Every time I think of Flying cars I think of that vine with the guy and the balloons.

[@gjackson3215]

Are they helium balloons?

[@CatsEyethePsycho]

@@gjackson3215 Yeah they were: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5nKkqKmlriZmJI

[@clockwerk35]

Man I remember those flying cars from the early 2000s, I saw the 2057 futuristic documentary that featured that car and thinking, finally the R&D was finally paying off. Damn man I am disillusioned so much

[@buddermonger2000]

Yeah same.

[@gbreedwell]

I remember this. The word play here is extravagant.

[@java7583]

It fascinates me that you can alternate from analytical, informational videos to the type that make me wonder if I'm just imagining all of this on a crazy trip.

[@alcerdemon9768]

People keep dreamig about flying cars but like, people already have enough problems driving around in a 2D plain, I can't imagine how disasterous adding another dimension would be

[@squabbbb]

The moment we get flying cars is the moment we get 24/7 9/11

[@Kraflyn]

How so?

[@tyranttitanium5721]

@@Kraflyn With the mass and velocity a flying car would have in most designs (it's essentially a glorified mini plane) it would be very easy to use as a projectile to be hurled towards buildings. With vehicles that can move faster than what we have in the hands of the general population means more opportunities to weaponize it. If we have 100 million people flying around in their own cars that have the ability to move very fast there's not much from preventing a suicidal individual for example from crashing it into a house or a massive building and causing millions in damage and loss of life. If flying cars did exist in the hands of every sane and responsible civilian (which can only be inferred from the outside meaning some mental problems are pretty hard to detect) then there would have to be a way of ensuring it won't just be accelerated to say 100 or 200 m/s and then crashed into something. It's a real problem that would have to be dealt with.

[@squabbbb]

@@Kraflyn imagine if every car accident had a chance to take out someone's house. Or if every time someone got road rage they could just nosedive into the local school

[@Kraflyn]

@@tyranttitanium5721 Yeah, that's true...

[@Kraflyn]

@@squabbbb Well... car is worth more than a school... :D

[@akramgimmini8165]

I will just use a personal Zeppelin Just in the good ol' times

[@Frogman1212]

The marvelous, eccentric, Professor Elemental!

[@petersmythe6462]

Re: the first AeroMobil concept. That thing reminds me of a wierd Kerbal Space Program craft I made that was intended to outturn WWII fighters but with a 4-meter wingspan. Extremely interconnected wing structure that loops back on itself with three horizontal tails and tries to get a ridiculously high spanwise efficiency.

[@USSAnimeNCC-]

I remember seeing the Jetson stuck in traffic in a flying car I wonder if that will happens and changing altitude won't help and I can't even imagine the rule and regulation that will appear

[@justbny9278]

Instead of lines of cars we could have full on blocks of traffic where you're stuck up sides and down Try running out of fuel and/or energy in middle of traffic you couldn't accurately account for and see what happens

[@robertharris6092]

Or you know. The traffic we see in back to the future 2.

[@Shovelchicken]

I swear I read an article about Dubai looking into hover bikes for their police force.

[@admiral_waffles533]

That's just Dubai. Their police interceptors are supercars costing hundreds of thousands ffs

[@shaider1982]

Those things have the rotors close to the legs of the pilots.

[@matheussanthiago9685]

dubai is kinda of already disconnect from the rest of reality by default

[@jesusramirezromo2037]

Its dubai, They spend money on pointless and ineficient shit

[@superdays7933]

Oppressor Mklls.

[@themeralderp]

I was thinking “Who cares about flying cars when VTOLs already exist?”, so I looked up “personal VTOLs” and I think the same thing happening with flying cars is happening with VTOLs. Guess I’ll just have to settle with a personal helicopter.

[@rockaway0beach]

Greetings from the V-22 Osprey

[@buddermonger2000]

They're basically flying cars we don't care that it's an actual car tbh

[@buddermonger2000]

@@rockaway0beach Okay no. Not fair since they're not helicopter plane hybrids. And in response the Harrier and F-35B wave back to you.

[@awsumguy-bh9pz]

2000 internet: i bet the internet will change everything 2021 internet: *a m o g u s*

[@zyanego3170]

Sus

[@Flesh_Wizard]

ur such a sussy baka

[@brandogg974]

Everyone: flying car yay Me (who is afraid heights): oh sweet sweet soil

[@thesuperpunmaster6369]

hey, at least there would be less traffic to worry about

[@doritos4956]

As an anxious person in it or not I would be so scared

[@thejoker-wu1sp]

Dude we can't control cars on the ground...lol.

[@JSZ69420]

I really hope more companies like blackfly and lillium become more common.

[@nrsrymj]

What happens when your flying car breaks down and becomes a ground pile of twisted metal? I'll tell you. You'll have a pile of twisted metal on the ground. You won't have to worry about it, though.

[@vaderbuckeye36]

Not necessarily. What happens when an airplane or helicopter breaks down?

[@Tearakan]

@@vaderbuckeye36 helicopters usually crash a burn when that happens. Planes can glide to the ground usually but it's still an issue.

[@nrsrymj]

@@vaderbuckeye36 they... crash. Also, flying cars would refer to literal traffic, personal vehicles in the sky like BTTF2, so you know how it's statistically far more likely to be in a car crash than plane? Now put that in the air. Automation would cut down on human error, but never shall entropy be defeated. Flying cars would be plunging from the sky with unacceptable regularity.

[@jinjunliu2401]

@@nrsrymj they'll also block my clear sky view :c

[@rx7241]

@@Tearakan helicopters are just as safe, a helicopter can auto rotate and land safer then a plane

[@Plengwing]

Would flying cars even be a good idea? I mean people can't even drive in 2D space, imagine how horrible 3D driving would be. Unless that whole thing is fully automated and humans can't take control. But that's not really driving isn't it?

[@garybrown2039]

3:01 as an engineering major, I can confirm that the stability issue is still a problem with flying vehicles. I never worked on the project or knew the workers personally , however they were working on a flying motorcycle and the stability issue was the thing that was screwing them. They attempted to use a computer program to recognize when the vehicle was off-balance but it was a ongoing process.

[@garcjr]

My only guess why most of these projects go nowhere is flying cars would be horribly inefficient.

[@justbny9278]

Not just inefficient, downright awful Imagine how the accidents would be, how signs would have to be reworded...

[@KaiserMattTygore927]

Not to mention how would air traffic work with such a massive amount of vehicles contesting with planes, drones and helis?

[@ghostdukevladamir5101]

The noise pollution would be dreadful as well

[@JJAB91]

Man, that ending is blue balls.

[@marcppparis]

“Yyyy came and went” seems to be the theme of this industry

[@l0lLorenzol0l]

Flying cars are the perfect example of people not thinking shit through. They are a horrendous idea any way you look at it.

[@robertharris6092]

"No more traffic" *back to the future 2 shows traffic in the air*

[@antoniobarbosameillon8911]

2001: I'm about to end this man's whole career.

[@user-ov2fc5sd1e]

Imagine what it would take to pass the flying test! It can't be nearly as easy as driving tests

[@ccubsfan94]

A normal airplane test takes about 50-60 hours of flight training with almost if not double the amount of "ground" training and work. The test is usually a 1.5-2 hour oral exam and 1.5-2 hour flight exam

[@watdaactalfuc]

What I'd give for a flying car, or just a car in general.

[@coosey3764]

you should give money for a car. works every time

[@watdaactalfuc]

@The Music Theory 001 don't we all

[@coosey3764]

@The Music Theory 001 fuck :(

[@Sammmmmmmm617]

People can't even drive regular cars, I don't trust them with flying cars.

[@BabzaiWWP]

imagine all the cases of people just jumping out of the car early and fucking dieing

[@KaiserMattTygore927]

imagine Texans and Californians driving flying cars. no waaaaaaaay.

[@Viperlover-cw2qx]

I get where you are coming from but I've heard people say that for years, verbatim. They will be autonomous 99 percent of the time.

[@firstduckofwellington6889]

@@Viperlover-cw2qx Yeah they'll probably still come but not for a loooong time.

[@mixiekins]

Any ATC would commit suicide if news broke that regular joes could fly. With how reckless drivers are, we don't beed a 3rd dimension added to the equation.

[@Xumak525]

I am waiting for those flying toyota technicals

[@bangscutter]

We already have issues with bad drivers on a regular car driving in 2D movement. Imagine how much more worse if you have bad drivers in flying cars in 3D movement. Aviation is one of the most regulated industries out there. Pilots have to be trained to very high standards, and there are very strict aviation rules and laws to follow. Your average Joe would not be able to take to the skies and just be expected to abide by those rules and regulations.

[@earlmcmanus194]

A 1998 Taurus as a biplane, now I've seen it all.

[@oliversherman2414]

Flying cars: we are a legit business market Literally everyone else: nice Star Wars concept

[@duo496]

Well, that's a cliffhanger

[@davilimalol4612]

Unironically though, the 9/11 part almost felt like a revelation.

[@1992jkwj]

"9/11" *cuts to funky music*

[@Nicitel94]

Just today my lil nephew asked me, if i think there gonna be flying cars in the future.

[@eigenman2571]

It’s good that we don’t have flying cars, because if we did, not only would we have problems on the ground, we would have problems in the air as well

[@MyHeadHz]

Flying cars AKA the FAA's worst nightmare.

[@thehumanian634]

Any other teens watching just to see what millennials thought the future was?

[@davilimalol4612]

Me

[@Frogman1212]

Millenials are in their 30s and 40s dude. You're looking for gen x or boomers.

[@thehumanian634]

@@Frogman1212 yeah so if there was a 2000 magazine many millennials would be teens, to be fair they were written by the previous generations but the host is talking from a perspective of being a disillusioned man who believed this as a teen

[@Frogman1212]

@@thehumanian634 I don't know how serious he is about that (it is tyler after all) you'd have to be pretty dumb to think flying cars would arrive in 2020 if you lived in the 2000s. That's like saying teleportation will be invented in the 2040s and time travel in the 2060s.

[@zyanego3170]

Me

[@zombieranger3410]

VR is the only true example of that dream future technology that has actually seen fruition, but it still is pretty early technology and needs the kinks to be fixed.

[@ianeons9278]

You should do what the 1900s thought about 2020s

[@imonymous]

Flying cars. In fact, I think the title of this video is stupid. I'd figure far more people thought that the 2000 would have flying cars than there were people in 2000 thinking they would exist now.

[@Gameprojordan]

Yeah but he's specifically talking about what people from the 2000s thought flying car technology would advance towards in 20 years

[@themeanestkitten]

What most people don't think about with flying cars is that you can't just fly anywhere you want, ATC wouldn't like that.

[@flowgangsemaudamartoz7062]

You would need to develop a whole new system of infrastructure for that. Its insane, i dont think it will happen in 100 years.

[@O___P]

I could only see it with some kind of self-flying car where, as soon as you hit the air, it shifts to mandatory machine control. Even a piloting license wouldn't cover the kind of nightmare reality of transferring gridlocked NY traffic to 3D. Humans couldn't handle that kind of flight environment.

[@xydyr4864]

You heard of flying cars. Now get ready for driving planes.

[@mobiusbelts3607]

Three years before production began on Minority Report, Steven Spielberg assembled a team of sixteen future experts in Santa Monica to brainstorm out the year 2054 for him. There isn’t a single flying car in the entire movie...

[@theankotze1292]

I love how I thought about this earlier today and now this releases

[@anonymousmobster2444]

2021 according to 2000: *Mile high buildings made of plastic, flying cars, interstellar travel* Actual 2021: *Shitty computers, memes, social media, and Karens*

[@NieR.Amanda]

2023 here. Still no AeroMobil.

[@madsli]

0:30 "We don't need roads where we're going" That pronunciation is great.

[@BenoHourglass]

Let's assume that the Aeromobil is actually something that is both airworthy and ground worthy: It's literally just a weirdly shaped plane. If you need a runway to actually utilize it then is there really a point?

[@edwardlee3286]

Damnit Tyler. Where is part two? I clicked on this and expected a full video. Dissapointed and want my part two NOW NOW NOW NOW. Ugghhh. This is gonna be like the flying car, waiting for it to come out, and it never does, does it? Well played Tyler. Well played.

[@otanakugaming3357]

2000: We will have flying cars in the future 2020: We will drive our car 10Km away from the home

[@watsonwrote]

That "Flying Car (it won't go away)" magazine cover really nails the zeitgeist of this video

[@petersmythe6462]

Re: flight height. Anything flying over a couple wingspans from the ground should have no problems going a mile or so into the air where the air starts to thin.

[@deathsyth8888]

Unless antigravity engines are made possible then miniaturized to be "affordable", then flying cars will be viable. Until then, its costly, cumbersome and too dangerous for the general public.

[@anthonygotttheonly]

Always a good day when you release a new video

[@Kameth]

"Why don't we have flying cars?" Well, first guess, it's exceedingly complicated to make a compact flying vehicle that is safe, has decent fuel efficiency, and is simple to use by- "9/11" Oooooooohhh. Ohhhhh nooooo. Well. Yes. Ah. Oh dear. Yes. There is that.

[@darijus4094]

This video sumerized where is my flying car BUDDY ?!

[@TheSmashingBonesBR]

Embraer is actually investing in a flying car concept

[@pedrolmlkzk]

Based

[@NamelessMoreOne]

They already make flying cars in an industrial level. It's called "helicopter".

[@Plate_Productions]

helicopters can't drive but i see what you mean

[@yourfriendlyneighbourhoodb7585]

“No more bumpy roads” Turbulence:

[@ShrivledAlienLol]

I don’t give a shit about flying cars. I just want self driving cars.

[@lajya01]

It's much easier to auto-pilot a flying car than a road car. Much less chaos and variables in the sky

[@dantefiore8442]

@@lajya01 Wind pressure, inertia, other people flying, bad weather, gravity, pitch, yaw, acceleration, throttle, air pressurization... vs following the road and turning left

[@lajya01]

@@dantefiore8442 Other people flying will be on auto pilot too, all the rest are controlled variables from sensory inputs. An auto-pilot car on a road with human drivers/bikers/walkers has no chance to deal with that chaos. On a special road with only self driving cars, that's something else...

[@Viperlover-cw2qx]

I got bit by the flying car bug when I was a kid. I'm 35 now. I've been obsessed with flying cars since I was 9. It's just such a beautiful idea and I'd love to have that freedom. One of my goals in life is to build a flying car. It's sounds ridiculous and it's no easy task but it's in my heart. Like so many people before me, I've been burdened with the urge to try and make that idea a reality and I really want to. Not my fault I can't afford it yet haha. Even if I could only make one just for myself I would do it. You know how incredibly frustrating it is to grow up obsessed with an idea but not have the ability to see it through and watch people like Paul Moller piss away millions of dollars on garbage prototypes and empty promises? It's infuriating. I always said I'd never be like them, I'd just make an honest effort to make the dream come true. It is a space rife with scam artists. There's hope on the horizon though. I know flying cars are always 2-5 years away but things are changing. I've grown more cynical and doubtful of people's technological promises over the years and I'm nowhere near as gullible as I was when I was 14 lol. Now though there is an actual up and coming market segment that is leading the way for "flying cars" in the form of air taxis for urban air mobility. No, I don't consider them flying cars myself, but evtols are absolutely a part of our future transportation infrastructure. All the right pieces are aligning. With slightly better batteries and new regulations it's going to blast off and be a game changer. These aren't just empty promises with tethered prototypes either. These are vehicles that have been proven in flight, made with technology that people can put together in their backyard! Look at Volocopter. They started with a bunch of drone rotors strapped to a friggin yoga ball. Now they have a working vehicle that is as easy to fly as a car is to drive. They aren't alone either. The space has filled up so fast in the last few years it's insane. Governments are lining up to create new regulations for the industry. I love watching it all develop. My only hope is that I can also be a part of it.

[@LeoMkII]

they exist and you can get one for less than 100k, they're called Robinson helicopters

[@mutingp]

Do u think im a read all that?

[@mutingp]

@@LeoMkII and yeah a "flying car" is a helicopter

[@experiment506]

I'm terrified enough by regular citizens having cars for christ's sake.

[@hunterbrown4672]

People are gonna hate me for this but the idea of a flying car is cool but practically it doesn’t work, how do you enforce laws in the entire sky or even have a safe landing zones... while thing just seems impractical and incredibly dangerous.

[@redsoxu571]

It pleases me to realize that I was an adult (or close enough) for the entire period of the modern examples given, and yet I paid each of these literally zero heed. It isn't hard to understand the exponentially higher challenges flying cars offer over regular ones, to the point that safety alone will be a gigantic hurdle when the capability is reached. This video made me realize how much these companies and a Theranos have in common. If it seems too amazing to be true...

[@axipixel5811]

There is a flying car. It can land in any parking lot and fold up to fit neatly in a standard parking space. It's been available for purchase and flying for 40 years. It's called the Robinson R-22, later R-44. The problem with flying cars isn't that you can't make them, it's that it's very hard to fly them and normal people can't be trained to do that. And aircaft need very intensive and regular maintenance regular people can't handle.

[@wedjeans]

Hey love your vids man keep it up

[@TrainOfDarkness]

Lovin these new transitions lol

[@Tom-ef1mz]

I'm from the future. It sucks, don't go there.

[@Smith-fg1qb]

The utter chaos of people having access to flying cars

[@ifarded4986]

I always thought the concept of flying cars is naïve. If you get in a fender bender on the road you swap insurance and go about your day. If you get in a fender bender in the sky you both plummet to your deaths. There's a reason you don't see bumper to bumper traffic in the sky.

[@masterspongebat2387]

Everybody gangster until the flying Semi-Trucks parks on the 38th floor at 237 mph

[@calebbennetts3559]

While never commercially available, the iTech Maverick is a flying car that has been in practical use as emergency transportation since 2008.

[@JV-ko6ov]

Repair and maintenance costs would be insane. Helicopters need a maintainence checkup every month

[@AgentWash]

Everyone: Lets talk about the Flying Cars Me: Whats up with your trendings, Tyler? 9:40

[@JGioia12]

Watches video, looks at military industrial complex, "no we're not like that; same same, but different"

[@Actovania]

remember when this guy talked about geography? those were the glory days

[@LateralTwitlerLT]

I'm old enough to remember you could actually order some of these allegedly flying cars as early as the mid 80s. But they only came broken down to their smallest parts, meaning you had to put them together yourself - a task virtually impossible for the common man. Not to mention you could never really use them due to legislation stopping everyone without a proper permit to use any part of the air space. A permit that was impossible to attain because there never existed any form of proper training possibilities nor any form of certification for the machines themselves. Basically a scam for anyone with more money than brain. Not that I know of anyone evet being sold at that time.

[@charlesm6994]

As a cdl driver dealing with traffic at least five hours a day. I can confidently say the concept of any Joe Shmoe in an airplane is a horrible idea.

[@michaelrizka]

Flying cars: *exist Counter Strike announcer: Terrorist win

[@woody6436]

As an electrical engineer my prediction for flying cars is that we don’t see it until we have autonomous vehicles down. It’s impractical to try to make flying cars a widely used thing while we have to rely on people not to crash them in horrible ways. Imagine the worst driver you know now imagine them controlling something that flies.

[@petersmythe6462]

So regarding 9/11. The primary that is fuel deposition into a building. The actual kinetic impact did pretty mild damage that could've just been repaired. The actual fatal blow was igniting vast amounts of jet fuel inside an office building. So most of these vehicles wouldn't even enter the building and those that do might make small local fires. Look what happens when someone runs a Cessna or hell, even a B-25 into a building? Not so much damage.

[@FoxyRoxy5]

I don't trust drivers on the ground ain't no way I'm getting into a flying car around others

[@josephsager9425]

2:33 "...if you know anything about rotary engines..." I know exactly two things about rotary engines: 1. Rob Dahm is soooooo hot 2. They burn a lot of oil, partly by design and partly because of apex seals.

[@ofthecaribbean]

That and the fact that getting a pilot's license is ridiculously expensive. But I think the main issue is that they try to be too many things at once. If they focused on making a smaller and safer helicopter or plane it would be easier to make something that actually works

[@joshuak5798]

Coming back to this video in 2023. Maybe even flying back.

[@AleK0451]

just like mike stoklasa split the timeline at 9/11, tyler also splits the video at 9/11

[@DoctorX17]

That CityHawk one looks like a shuttlecraft from Star Trek I don't think flying cars will ever be _a thing,_ but if they do ever happen, I think it'll be when we're space fairing, and it'll just be little shuttlecraft like in Star Trek that can take you across a planet or to a larger ship in orbit.