Why Don't We Have Flying Cars Yet?

Companies like Boeing, Airbus, Toyota and Uber are recognizing the need for more efficient travel, and injecting millions into developing VTOLs, or Verticle Takeoff and Landing Vehicles. Though these vehicles don’t much resemble the flying cars of “Back to the Future” or “Blade Runner,” they have the potential to fundamentally change the way we commute in cities. Experts predict the market for urban air mobility to reach $1.5 trillion by 2040.
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Why Don't We Have Flying Cars Yet?

[@kameha_pandamusic9284]

Why we dont have flying cars yet? You know drunk drivers? Yea imagine them airborn....

[@rahtaearudon8183]

Well! That was my first thought. Drunk Drivers!

[@insertnamehere8103]

Lol

[@erikkulovesfauna]

Kameha_Panda Music did you even watch the entire video before you commented this?

[@commentorsilensor3734]

Barney, flying the helicopter is not like driving, you cannot drink and fly helicopter. Homer Simmons remarks to Barney wanting to fly helicopter

[@insertnamehere8103]

@Joe Chill IM GOING TO SAY THE N WORD

Flying cars? Some of the idiots I've come across can't drive on land lol.

[@JJs_playground]

That's why they're becoming more popular now, due to autonomy and AI systems. You certainly can't have regular people piloting their own drones.

[@Levitiy]

Yup, and there are no guard rails in the sky.

[@KOLAkola]

Autumn Sunsets my thoughts exactly

[@Plantgarden88]

@Autumn Sunsets You literally had me LOL,....OMGoodness soooooooooo soooooooo true.

[@fynkozari9271]

That's the exact reason why i want flying cars. To escape the dumb drivers. I don't go outside because people drive like dumb.

[@FriedRice3519]

I don't want 17 yr old Bethany to crash into my roof bc she was texting her boyfriend while drinking her pumpkin spice latte on her way to the mall flying at 300 mph

[@cyberdynesystemsmodel1018]

Good for the single boyfriend, more poonani

[@graphitic5578]

i had this strange feeling on my mind, this would become a law, when you're nearby onto a village or a small town, you'll have to drive on the ground for safety.

[@jcdenton4902]

@@graphitic5578 Yes

[@adityapatel9735]

To be fair, if flying cars come, they will come with autonomous driving that don’t rely on humans.

[@LSp8]

@@adityapatel9735 absolutely because we're extremely stupid and if we had to fly ourselves it'll be a disaster every second.

[@hailgoenitz1061]

Imagine skydiving and accidentally getting hit by a flying car. Lol

[@billbandoh5818]

Now that’s a good one 🤣

[@bishopp14]

Damn, I hadn't even thought about that!

[@jimtamim1708]

Yeah everyone does skydiving

[@bishopp14]

@@jimtamim1708 In the future we will all skydive to work. 😁

[@GoogalyB]

Skydivers could fix a broken flying car while it’s still airborne.

[@IanSeabrook]

If cars were flying above me, I’d never go outside. Y’all know how bad we are at driving in 2 dimensions.... now add a 3rd dimension?!?!? No thanks.

[@strangerui4009]

So right.. and above that it will be a big security issue too. Govt will not take risks. And it shouldn't too.

[@sohampatil7101]

We all utimatelt die because of upward godly forces . Sigh.

[@ChickensAndGardening]

Of course; we can't trust the average schmuck out there on the road as it is. It will have to be computer-assisted. Basically you'll just be a passenger, telling the machine where to take you, and it will do most of the avoidance & safety maneuvers on its own. Of course, a few people will die before the kinks are worked out, and then we'll always have to be on the lookout for hackers trying to reprogram these things and cause them to deliberately crash!

[@ktmpl]

Ian - Money Talks Agreed

[@ab3040]

Just use computers.

[@ryancorbell9520]

I don't wanna have someone crash into my house from the sky!

[@xamantiwari]

self-driving flying dude All Companies are trying to solve your question that's why You don't have a flying car. Congrats companies saved your life because you don't have a flying car

[@shubhankardasgupta4777]

@Brady Chuck if that's scares you then you may not use or consume imported products which comes through air.

[@shubhankardasgupta4777]

@Brady Chuck when we didn't have cars, people thought that taken a ride in those cars might got exploded.

[@cauliaw1566]

@@xamantiwari self-driving can be hacked. Also the software can be caused some failure like boeing.

[@rizizum]

@Brady Chuck Commercial airplanes are checked every flight and also have two highly trained professionals piloting them, airplanes crash much, much, much less than cars. If you give this to the average consumer it will be the same with cars but worse, with thosuands and thousands of accidents happenings every year, AI would be a solution to this, but we don't even have normal self-driving cars yet, so flying cars will probably come after self-driving car

[@Leo-ll4pl]

Imagine running out of fuel in the middle of the sky

[@zack5757hamzah]

Oh its easy *gLiDe*

[@yakublmaoo8468]

Well u have wings

[@alienextraterrestrial113]

that simply wouldn't happen.

[@kevonfrancis4964]

@@alienextraterrestrial113 it happen already to a plane

[@hermanspermann1746]

Viral Videos yea, but those pilots had some crack before that flight... if you cant even fill enough fuel, you are just yea

[@christerlem426]

1998:in 2020 We will have Flying cars 2020:even Planes don't fly

[@giveUup1921]

Lol

[@pulse27]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/rmGnfmatp6qpm8k I mean, I guess we missed the date by 5 years

[@prashpatel6436]

Lol

[@dernamenlosekonig6673]

Good joke

[@Knight_Of_Eleum_Loyce]

Nice one, lmao. But seriously, our future REALLY sucks so far. This is not what I imagined as a teen in the early 2000's.

[@AudioRedmusicunlimited]

everyone will want to go back to the ground once flying cars are everywhere

[@mukesh4169]

You know what.. you're absolutely right friend.

[@carlodumas1971]

That would be absolutely cool my dude.

[@kevinkent6351]

I don't see them "being everywhere." They will likely have very strict point A to point B flight paths. They will probably be mainly used to commute people in from 30-100 miles away to land at a few central locations. I really don't see people jumping into VTOLs to go 5 miles to their SoulCycle class.

[@kevinkent6351]

@K L What's to stop people? Literally none of these companies working on VTOL taxi services expects humans to be driving/flying these vehicles. They will be autonomously flying with strict flight paths.

[@Dingusdoofus]

K L by making it illegal to make cars that go above a certain height. That will help.

[@dakimuchi]

Everyone thinks of flying cars as if they are the only one with a car flying. Like *"If only I could fly over all this traffic..."*

[@mradu30singh]

That's the reality 😂

[@FrVitoBe]

no only the super rich get to fly, mid class gets to stand in traffic jams

[@DarkwearGT]

Then people

[@DarkwearGT]

@@FrVitoBe yea private planes and helicopter

[@royalteluis623]

There would be so many midair crashes. *breaking news idiot drunken teen rams aircraft into navy missile cruiser , causing missile to be fired into Hollywood*

[@ashe5834]

Everyone: I can’t wait for flying cars, then I’ll never have to go on a road again! Me: I can’t wait for everyone to have a flying car! There will never be another person on the road ever! I’ll have the highway to myself!

[@ye3151]

i can wait i dont like flying

[@RemsHusband]

Intelligence 100 Also highways will prtty much become drag strips so thats a thing.

[@thewizzard3150]

LAX is having a fit with 1 guy and a jet pack. what if there were a million of them and where would you pull over. you can't handle a flat surface, how would you ever manage 3 dimensions?

[@RemsHusband]

@@thewizzard3150 Exactly! It just takes one flying car to shut down an entire airport.

[@SparlsOfficial]

no road speed limit anymore lol

[@jefforceone]

As a child the first thing your mother tells you to do when you go out on your own it’s a look both ways when crossing the street now they’ll have to tell you to start looking up

[@noahbowie5985]

Surely if everyone had flying cars we'd just have sky traffic jams.

[@xamantiwari]

that's impossible bcoz in the air is more space than the road.

[@ab3040]

La would never see the sun again 🤣🤣

[@sadmancho]

We would just fly over each other lol.

[@advancedomega]

@@xamantiwari have you ever watched "The Jetsons"?

[@JoaoPedro-gc8mw]

Not if we just keep adding "layers" of lanes above indefinitely. Imagine that the cars can only fly in those virtual lanes, as if they were suspended roads that don't actually exist except in our car's mechanical mind.

[@jeffreydavis2578]

Ya’ll realize you’d need a pilot’s license to own a flying car lol

[@xxxod]

10:42 yall realize u can just watch the video... some companies are working on designing flying vehicles that will not require a license.

[@Matt-fh4bk]

Not exactly

[@commonavionics6069]

Galaxi they will.

[@blacklyfe5543]

U don't cause your not flying a plane you're flying a car

[@awar-bb5ru]

@@commonavionics6069 at certain lower altitudes you dont need a license to fly

[@sunigbo6269]

Imagine the noise of an average drone, multiply that by 100 to get that of a VTOL car. Then imagine half of modern-day traffic making such noise overhead: perfect definition of maddening.

[@PhyxSuccs]

“Why don’t we have flying cars yet?” *nervous 9/11 laughter*

[@sunlessartist125]

STFU

[@azlanaris7129]

U think its funny?

[@RokeJulianLockhart.s4eb2q]

@@azlanaris7129 Of course, because it is.

[@XTRMXPRTKILR]

Dude it's a joke

[@Z0RD.]

@@XTRMXPRTKILR yea but some jokes are offensive to certain people.you cant just call someone a racist slur and then say its a joke afterwords and think their not offended.

[@SofaSpy]

Flying cars will never happen because of noise pollution, 1 helicopter flying low over my house is bothersome, but 100,000 flying car...oooh hell nah

[@dragossorin85]

Flying drones are not that noisy, when the batteries will be lighter this will be mainstream in transportation, remember flying you go straight from A to B unlike a road that goes in all directions and many times you go around alot just because the road goes this way

[@taks6738]

Pretty sure kobe make flying car cant never happen. If someone with over thousand of flight hours can crash like that think about what your idiot next door can do to your home when they coming baack from work

[@lintonfr]

Lol a helicopter is bothering you? Bruh military jets fly over me regularly and it don't bother me

[@dragossorin85]

It will happen, drones are lightweight and do not make to much noise when they fly way up in the sky you would not even hear them, there will be regulation don t imagine that everyone will fly at low altitude so they can see you at the grill, minimum hight is required for safety reasons, you need time to open the safety parachute in case something happens

[@ShaudaySmith]

@@dragossorin85 commercial vertical transit is something i'm interested in. Private consumer vehicles will never happen. Our annoying neighbors are never going to own their own VTOL to take off and land in their front yard. And regulations don't allow vehicles in certain air spaces. So commercial transit sounds interesting but i think they will still be highly regulated to "lanes" where they only go to approved hubs and landing zones. So you will still to need to get yourself to those spaces to utilize the services

[@eyeCU13]

I can't wait for the russian dash-cam compilations with flying cars!

[@profitshares7033]

The big airlines aren't ready to give up control.

[@etxsports5836]

Travel evolution is coming.

[@redraider7614]

eyeCU13 love that 240P quality

[@toast5676]

@@redraider7614 144p*

[@LycanWitch]

@@profitshares7033 No worries about the big airlines, the rona gonna make them bankrupt before the year's end..

[@cadegonzales8406]

Why don’t we have flying car yet? Because people can’t even drive on the ground 😭😂

[@syedmustafahussain208]

In 2020: "Trafic is crazy on land. Why don't we have flying cars." In 2120: "Trafic is crazy in air. Why don't we have land cars."

[@iadvicetonottrythisathome]

3020:Why we don't have phone car's?

[@mark4tesla]

"If you want a flying car, put wheels on a helicopter." - Elon Musk

[@dertythegrower]

no. and flying cars do exist, so do taxi drone

[@testaccount603]

“Helicopters are a death trap, engine stalls or breaks you fall like a stone to your almost certain death. Planes stall or engines fail you glide to your much less likely death” - Test Account 2020

[@officialspock]

@@dertythegrower where? In your dreams?

[@thierryvt]

@@testaccount603 look up: auto rotating in a helicopter. In short: helicopters don't just turn into falling bricks when the engine fails.

[@jordanjohns2890]

lol, NOPE, the propeller needs to be retractable..

[@yannicat123]

We can’t drive on land without killing each other how are we going to live safely traveling in the air???

[@xamantiwari]

self-driving flying dude All Companies are trying to solve your question that's why You don't have a flying car. Congrats companies saved your life because you don't have a flying car

[@ab3040]

Computers

[@cauliaw1566]

@@CockpitScenes but computers have some risk too. Computers can be hacked

[@organicsoulgumbo]

5G

[@bongman123]

@@cauliaw1566 ah yes, a boeing 777 has been hacked lots of times /s

[@coolcar3388]

Omg imagine a roadrage in the air😂

[@largol33t1]

That's one of dozens of reasons why I will NEVER get into a flying car even if they ever become reality.

[@bluesss149nsss4]

No its airrage 😂

[@Vednier]

Another interesting thing. Years ago engineers looked at car and said "ok, we can't merge it with plane yet, but we can make it swim" and merged it with BOAT making amphibian cars. Cool! You dont need bridges anymore and can even go down the river! And while idea seemed cool, result was clunky, ugly...thing nobody wanted. Swimming cars was failure because they hardly resembled sleek sport car, they was literally boats on wheels. Why peoples think flying car will be "cars" at all? BTW, amphibian cars still exists and newer models much better then it used to be. But its still rather poor boat + poor car mixed.

[@pianoman1379]

Yes and we all don’t have amphibian cars today so flying cars will fall in same catagory - only the military and rich will have them

[@RML0317]

Answers: because there are planes and the cost of own a "flying car" is way too high

[@Anonym-dx2tp]

Ricardo Leffering security is also an issues

[@FOWBOWZ]

Right, imagine the maintenance costs for such a vehicle.

[@KeviNeemzVEVO]

and potential accidents. Imagine drunk drivers crashing on buildings and people's home.

[@normanschuetze854]

There are buses, the cost of having a car is far greater than having a car.

[@xythiera7255]

Its call a Helecopter and cost at least 10milion.

[@johnnulf624]

One of the most important things I've learned in my life is that no matter how logical, intelligent, and well informed you are, there's bound to be factors that you haven't considered or solutions that you haven't imagined. While flying cars may be impractical today, I think it's naive to say it can never happen. It might just require methods and take on a form that hasn't yet been invented.

[@shacktime]

Tens to hundreds of millions of people whizzing around in the air at all hours of the day and night? Oh, yeah, that should go swimmingly😏

[@johnnulf624]

@@shacktime I could not have picked a better adjective myself :)

[@freddyromariovasquezcairo2250]

@@shacktime It just needs new regulation.

[@shacktime]

@@freddyromariovasquezcairo2250 You must be joking. This will only be available for a tiny minority of very wealthy people. And you’ll have to get a pilot’s license to use them. It’ll be a tiny niche. You’ve been watching too much science fiction and not enough science fact.

[@manbunrider]

Someone in the future would be watching this video & commenting “lol i own one”

[@bobbyboy1797]

People own them now ya know?

[@victuz]

They already do. It's called helicopters.

[@stephonwilliams5232]

Lol when you get that weird video recommendations from a 15 year old video

[@Legion849]

They exist it's called Helicopters

[@rahulpal2490]

CNBC: Where's flying cars? Japan: Hold my tea.

[@weaslelysherbeard6485]

Tea 🤣

[@clintongwanyama7188]

Imagine everyone buying a flying car then we will still have the same problem with regular cars on the road

[@jordanjohns2890]

Wrong, because there is vertical space, you can pass by driving over or above in a flying car..

[@akhilome]

@@jordanjohns2890 But, what if there's traffic ABOVE you? 🤔😂

[@jordanjohns2890]

@@akhilome go higher up, or lower.. something that can be done on the streets lol

[@flightjam]

@@jordanjohns2890 u think it's a free for all in the sky? Everyone on the ground has to follow road rules. You can't just start driving on the grass to pass traffic. Same with the sky. You can't go higher or lower however you wish.

[@xoxo-pp7ru]

@@flightjam I would love to become a flying highway police patrol

[@6pistons]

Ppl cannot even drive properly on the ground much less to fly. Imagine air accidents and flightmobiles plummeting onto your home.

[@eric.m5790]

hahah :D

[@childish8469]

imagine teaching people how to maintain altitude. That is literally like teaching a baby the Pythagorean theorem.

[@filipe_paixao]

Americans: can we have health care? Also Americans: *wHaT aBoUt FlYiNg CaRs¿*

[@filipe_paixao]

@Jane Magnusson American is a race? From what I know, USA has probably every single race in there.

[@stephonwilliams5232]

Do u want cheap hospitals or cheap insurance

[@idontgetjokes8101]

@Jane Magnusson I know my username, but you are too stupid to ignore. American is an ethnicity, not a race.

[@alamgiral-qidwa6067]

@@idontgetjokes8101 bruh tf no. Ameircan is a *nationality* Ethnicity is the same thing as a race

[@idontgetjokes8101]

@@alamgiral-qidwa6067 actually correct, it's 1am here and I've been up for a while. must've been tired

[@kr4zyy]

They should have flying cars, just that it's AI controlled instead of user controlled.

[@FlaminLite]

Why

[@UNDEADCREATOR]

Castro 843 because people don’t know how to drive sure we’re still working on AI right now for cars but they’re still better than some of the drivers I’ve seen and I’m only 17 so that’s saying something

[@FlaminLite]

@@UNDEADCREATOR ya might be ignorant

[@CheapSushi]

It's almost like that's exactly what was said in the video.....

[@jaylajonas6632]

I agree

[@TheLiamster]

Technically helicopters can be considered flying cars because some helicopters have wheels.

[@VAULT-TEC_INC.]

So are planes then

[@pranishkhadgi2723]

Then aeroplanes are cars

[@cauliaw1566]

@@VAULT-TEC_INC. planes are flying bus

[@Nemoticon]

Lol, stupidest comment I've seen in a while... outstanding!

[@marktylerson42]

We can't have Flying Cars before Self Driving Cars.

[@cauliaw1566]

But self-driving car can cause some disasters like software hack and software failure (like plane disaster that caused by boeing software).

[@Nikyv786]

Igor Dvorzhak very true

[@IonorReasSpamGenerator]

Self-driving cars alone will solve plenty of traffic jam issues we got today as computer autopilots can have swarm logic and communicate with each other to achieve maximum efficiency for better utilization of roads, something people got trouble with... Early systems of between car communication and traffic jam avoidance assistants are already in some cars, hopefully, by the end of the decade, we will have some reasonably capable self-driving that is not good only as a gadget for showing off or data gathering lab prototype add-on you can participate in with your wallet in quest for improving life in the future, but something that genuinely work on its own better than human driver at least in clear weather when not towing anything... Personally, I got my doubts about cheap flying car/taxi concept even in self-flying VTOL only form because dealing with paparazzi and terrorist become ridiculously expensive for too many which can be targeted, just imagine how hard would be to protect Trump from the premature end of his presidency when entities with enough resources or hackers of autonomous VTOL systems decide that they got enough of him as some American nutcase or Iranian nationalist will try to "save" his country decline by forceful replacement of president... Currently, we got only man-portable guided missiles, autocannons spewing solid pieces of heavy metals or shrapnels, and soon also lasers as systems somewhat usable in urban areas against such heavy flying threads. Neither of these solutions are cheap (need for 24/7 automatization) nor something that you would want every place that can be threatened with a civilian VTOLS to be in possession of... Negatives simply vastly outweigh positives for this one, similarly to Elon's plan for fast long-range travel with civilian made ICBM's, though I have my doubts about how much was such concept promotion of his companies for dreamers and how much was it actually technology he really expected to succeed. But some very smart people supporting these flying taxis to go far beyond some pretty CGI animation to get people excited even when they must been dealing with critics for a long time, which means they likely are neither naive nor just insufficiently informed about negatives and most likely have some dirty tricks in their sleeves to push such security disaster upon us for their own profits, or they simply milking their investors without expecting any success.

[@NathanDavisVideos]

@@IonorReasSpamGenerator WOW... You sure said a mouthful there!

[@minttt_]

@@cauliaw1566 I assume you are talking about MCAS. And, that has been fixed.

[@LarchOye]

We've had flying cars for over 100 years: they're called AIRPLANES...

[@georgemwanza6339]

No they're called helicopters

[@TruckTaxiMoveIt]

Airplanes are not like cars -- they are like busses -- Airbus

[@abdouaboud7490]

@La Rugs that a flying submarine dummy

[@dillerhiller]

@@georgemwanza6339 no they are called blimps

[@Torquebeast650]

Flying bus

[@capriumnoir6426]

*Why don't we have flying cars yet?* Planes: Am I a joke to you

[@MYSTRO0]

So true😂

[@angelhanson7125]

I would say those airline companies are a joke. They care way more about profits than customers

[@user-kf7dp2mv5i]

@@angelhanson7125 It's just a joke man.

[@j-fun4776]

@@angelhanson7125 what do you expect? they need money to run the planes

[@user-ys6oq1lv8p]

Lmao helicopters

[@ninjanerdstudent6937]

High speed rail in the United States is easier to innovate than flying cars.

[@tycooperaow]

Whole Food Plant-Based Man but is it cheaper?

[@randomperson7135]

Tycooperaow yes

[@randomperson7135]

Kevin Prima you just contradicted yourself.first you say it won’t work then you say it will then you say it won’t

[@randomperson7135]

Kevin Prima yes it’s worth it.it will be a cheaper and more efficient way of traveling around the country

[@ninjanerdstudent6937]

Kevin Prima Milwaukee to Chicago to St. Louis to Dallas would be one example of small and big cities experiencing growth. Regardless of the city it passes through, it will stimulate the economy. Right now, cruise ship sales and vacation travel are cheaper and people are fearful of Corona. High speed rail is a perfect way to stimulate the nation’s economy.

[@zarkaztick8973]

*The Rise and Fall of Flying Cars* A title I don't want to see in the future.

[@leilanidru7506]

A literal rise and fall💀

[@heheh6727]

Leilani Dru LMAOO

[@KOKOBC]

There will be no rise

[@Arsonnn1]

?????? Only my c*ck 🤣🤣🤔🤔🤔🤔😉😉😰😰😰

[@aayush_789]

1900s: We will have flying cars in future. 2020: Why we don't we have flying cars yet?

[@toxicmuscularity]

back to the future

[@user-kf7dp2mv5i]

It should be 1980.

[@RuviaPawz]

"Because the only ones who could afford them would be the rich"

[@lelouchvibritannia6851]

"At first"

[@Kobe_Bryant2.0]

That’s how it was when the car first came out, now everybody has a car that is 10 times better then the first car models

[@cesarpedrazamartinezgarcia725]

That's always the case for new technologies

[@RuviaPawz]

@@cesarpedrazamartinezgarcia725 true

[@RuviaPawz]

@@cesarpedrazamartinezgarcia725 it is definitely the case for folding phones

[@ARMOREDSAINT23]

“Why don’t we have flying cars yet?” Why don’t we all fly helicopters? Also 9/11.

[@astaloaf2113]

It's not really because 9/11 actually because it's not efficient.

[@mirzaahmed6589]

You couldn't do 9/11 with a helicopter or a general aviation airplane. The plane would be destroyed and the building largely unharmed.

[@mirzaahmed6589]

@Brady Chuck only takes 40 hours to get a private pilot certificate. Can be done in a month or less.

[@SA2004YG]

@@mirzaahmed6589 as if you can't take explosives with you and fly into smaller but more numerous targets...

[@Sorcerers_Apprentice]

We do, it's just not safe or practical for everyone to own, maintain and fly a helicopter or airplane.

[@mental_breakdance7227]

I like how they ignore all the problems that come with this insane idea such as: practicality, cost (for the consumer), safety, infrastructure, and reliability

[@shubhamshrestha6935]

People in the 1950s: I'll bet that will have flying cars in 2020 People in 2020: WAsH YOur hands for 20 seconds

[@Stone_624]

"We continue to waste hours in traffic fantasizing about flying cars" Americans really just physically can't comprehend the concept of public transportation. Solution to traffic already exists, America. You're just horrible at infrastructure.

[@kornkernel2232]

Not just America, but yeah many countries simply lack the investment on good mass transport infrastructure. We can pretty much solve or at least reduce the effects of traffic congestion by having better mass transport and better urban planning. The current urban sprawl and car-centric lifestyle is simply unsustainable once the population reaches certain threshold. It is a never-ending chase of building new roads, expansion and keep the city/town size growing further out, forcing people to travel farther and desire to have cars.

[@JetSurfingNation]

It's impossible to put a bus to the low dense populated suburban american cities with tons of private homes... The bus is only good for old-town style European dense populated cities. Flying car though - terrible idea. To solve the need to drive everywhere is to work online more.

[@revolutionaryarmy9620]

u r too much worried .Just look at India were nothing is there but still people are happy and more adventurers at roads.

[@Brazillianboi69]

The problem is America is big. Like really big if you include Alaska. There is a lot of private land as well which makes creating a brand new rail system virtually impossible if you can’t buy off everyone’s land. Most cities do have good public transportation. It’s just the suburbs and rural towns that have no choice but to own cars.

[@sirdeadlock]

Where's the profit in that?

[@ivanlowjones]

So apparently the opening of the Jetson's where George folded his flying car into a briefcase isn't coming any time soon?

[@amanitamuscaria6865]

They're called planes.

[@drabberfrog]

and helicopters

[@mr.burkenstock4188]

And flying cars

[@vitor900000]

You cant trust people with cars imaging trusting people with cars that can fly... What a nightmare... The solution for transportation is more RAIL with roads as support not air. Air should only be for cross continent and urgency.

[@ethanferns5495]

Vitor Leão rail in the us is unreliable. The country is simply too big

[@lzh4950]

Think flying cars would be attractive to emergency services operating in areas with congested traffic

[@vitor900000]

@@lzh4950 Helicopters

[@vitor900000]

@@ethanferns5495 That is exactly what rail is best at. The bigger the country more effective rail is! Rail is not as fast as flying but it still much faster than road and many times cheaper than flying. You can even make high speed rail (bullet trains). They can reach between 30% to 80% of the speed of a conventional plane and be operated by a fraction of the cost. The biggest problem with rail is the initial investment. Its huge but the advantages pay off.

[@sync1463]

That’s why they test it when someone drives bad they will be ready

[@faithlesshound5621]

We need to minimise "work miles." We already talk about "food miles." The question should be not, "How can 1 million people travel 30 miles into our city and out again every day, and do so faster?" but "Why do they have to?" Our ancestors walked to work, whether in the fields or in a workshop. Engineers should help us work from home, or at least at somewhere reasonably close. That should also reduce energy use and global warming.

[@zecle]

and suddently, coronavirus forced everyone to do as you said.

[@faithlesshound5621]

@@zecle Yes, in the post-pandemic world a lot of people will be able to stay at home in their pyjamas, and city office blocks may be converted into housing, just like the old warehouses.

[@timetoleavetheplanet298]

Nice point. Watch here how it compares to your point kzbin.info/www/bejne/i4S0h5iLgNiEg5I

[@sahilsaksena3199]

@@faithlesshound5621 sadly, where I live post pandemic looks the same as pre pandemic. They didn't learn anything

[@faithlesshound5621]

@@sahilsaksena3199 Yes, many of the boss class (the toxic managers) want the peasants to come in to work every day, whether they strictly need to or not. Others want electronic surveillance of home workers.

[@Pau_Pau9]

Choose 2 out of 3: Good car Good plane Acceptable cost

[@ytyehyeh]

I don't know that we're even to that level yet. I'd like to see a proposal for a truly good flying car with no consideration for cost. Just show me the best you can possibly imagine that is technically possible, then we'll talk about what I'd give up from either the car and/or plane sides to reduce costs. I'd even allow for a proposal that considers all the general infrastructure and societal changes needed to accommodate it.

[@Pau_Pau9]

That's why I would choose the BEST option. A great car AND a great plane.

[@ritwikreddy5670]

@@ytyehyeh no major company is "seriously" funding flying car projects. The dynamics to going at 400kmph while on the road are way more complex than flying. People just don't invest in a useless thing. This is the same reason you don't have a physical robot to answer your calls. An AI is much better. There

[@mental_breakdance7227]

I love how mankind sometimes takes the literal most impractical ideas and stretches them wayyy out

[@ibrahimsaeed0521]

Wouldn’t flying cars just be airplanes

[@00z53]

no

[@user-jq3qt8no7h]

no

[@lovelypersonn1720]

No

[@ladofthedamned7796]

_no_

[@Krystal-sg9ji]

No

[@SquizzMe]

"Back in my day, we used to be in traffic for a whole hour! We got around the old fashioned way: cars!"

[@kevinkevin6445]

Ok Boomer

[@idkmanseemskindasus2012]

kevin kevin ok zoomer

[@proximakirby3088]

kevin kevin ok zoomer

[@lilhoodie105]

1980:We are going to have flying cars in 2020! 2020: coronavirus outbreak.

[@hjvfhjjuukkjgt7338]

who said 2020 it was 2000

[@error.418]

@@hjvfhjjuukkjgt7338 it was 2015 in Back to the Future

[@RXQ1jj]

1980: we are going to have flying cars in 2010 Me: Flying cars are just planes

[@error.418]

@@RXQ1jj Try driving your plane on the highway. Try taking your plane to school or the grocery store.

[@RXQ1jj]

@@error.418 oh....

[@Commander.and.Chief.Killua]

Whe can’t have flying cars cause we can verily afford helicopters

[@pfullblasttv]

Flying cars will be cheaper, fuel efficient, and will require very little maintenence

[@lazarusmagellan2367]

AViaRooster how? If they’re electric?

[@lzh4950]

Think a key challenge is shrinking a helicopter's architecture e.g. rotors into something narrow enough to fit into a road lane, while still generating enough lift to stay airborne when necessary

[@octave1]

@@pfullblasttv if flying cars werr a thing, 9/11 everyday.

[@pfullblasttv]

@@octave1 Never make a comment like that again. Very rude and inappropriate. Also, before you say something like that, research it.

[@dillerhiller]

starwars Corrusant: flying cars + still has traffic jams.

[@JetSurfingNation]

The flying car is called helicopter. Leave them to professional pilots. End of story.

[@ggsay1687]

Some helicopters have no wheels.

[@viper_exe_]

Some cars have no motors. What's your point.

[@JuanRamos-yc9ho]

Lol

[@redraider7614]

Playlist Ace What? How?

[@Ye-tf9im]

Jason Bourne The CIA Agent Tesla

[@Dingusdoofus]

When I heard flying cars, the first thing that pops into my head is Couracant.

[@rancidmarshmallow4468]

every tech ceo: wow, this rush-hour traffic sure is bad. I can think of no current technologies that are fully capable of solving this issue, let's go for flying cars!

[@sahibdipsandhu]

We do have flying cars. Go watch some rally races

[@stephonwilliams5232]

Link please

[@sahibdipsandhu]

@@stephonwilliams5232 m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/pX3bfHWmlNGHgLc it was a joke but some rally cars jump hella far like they almost flying

[@Inferno45]

Anybody remember the “Jetsons”?? Thats where i got my vision of flying cars

[@tman7390]

*People in the year 3000:* Flying Cars are so primitive

[@zacktoor1591]

Teleportation pods... that's the way to travel!

[@sebmandal]

Zack Toor nonono. that was 2935. now we got teleportation by mind control..

[@jesseluciano1388]

Paul Dawson big BIG facts

[@TheTurtleOfGods]

bruh i was here, your comment is surviving in the year 3000

[@rogersmith5167]

Why can't we drive on the ground there is so much to see down below, clouds are so boring you see one you've seen them all

[@audrey1792]

1923: we will have flying cars in the future 2020: ha you thought

[@stephonwilliams5232]

Imagine flying your car and the gas light come on

[@samysam5599]

I'm fine with it being just a taxi service

[@stephcast5999]

Like the fifth element movie? (Flying taxi cars)

[@Spartacus1314]

Yeah it would be more efficient for semi short distances, not like to get to the McDonald's a few streets from your house but more like to your job thats 1 hour away when driving on wheels

[@El_Guapo98]

Let’s worry about getting healthcare to everyone first

[@yurandeveloper6958]

El Guapo how can a car manufacturer work on health care? 🤦🏾

[@Darkest_matter]

@@BrasiliaAquarela that's what government does anyway

[@user-kf7dp2mv5i]

@@yurandeveloper6958 He said everyone,not cars.🤦🏻‍♂️

[@DADDY_DIGI_HOBBIES]

This comment has nothing to do with the subject in the video.... We have a great health care system here in the USA and it has lead to overpopulation. The goal if disease is population control and we already have a unnatural survival rate, which is great. But idk how many selfish consumerist people the planet can take.

[@dave5346]

Yea because ford is gonna give all their funds to people who cant get it

[@retardman5193]

A car isn't a car anymore when it can fly

[@J.Wolf90]

That's why flying cars are called airplanes

[@ryanchow1995]

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

[@joshuajoe1419]

This is the only one of these jokes I’ve laughed at for a while

[@Vallavender333]

I have friends who will not change their oil for years or drive on a flat tire. I don't want them to be able to hover above my house 🤣

[@89msantos]

We do have flying cars, they’re just expensive and hard to learn to drive. They’re called helicopters

[@electricflow8827]

No,that's not a car. A flying car is a car that can hover like a spaceship,every thing else is either plane or helicopter

[@childish8469]

you drive helicopters?

[@BlitzkriegTechno]

@@electricflow8827 but, helicopters can hover

[@BlitzkriegTechno]

@@electricflow8827 even Elon musk says to make a flying car put wheels on a helicopter

[@andromizer4363]

Hover technology is still being tested so we can only make flying cars with propellers, hovering cars are still not achievable with our current technology

[@tiktokvideocompilation2322]

1920:in hundred year were gonna get flying cars 2020:renegade renegade

[@Supergeologist]

When I was kid in the sixties my neighbour had an amphibious car, I'd love to know what it was. He also built a gyrocopter in his garden; it never flew, pity.

[@Philip4459]

Dumb Idea, just imagen how chaotic it is if every car is flying.

[@captainAlex258]

oh yes I can see it air rage

[@leoliu4368]

they should make it so it is self driving instead

[@johnj8639]

Flying an aircraft is definitely less efficient than driving a car, creating lift and moving forward is always going to cost more energy than just moving forward. We would be wasting way more energy. Countries other than the US don’t have these traffic problems like you see in California, it’s poorly designed infrastructure, there are a million better solutions around traffic than flying cars.

[@garcjr]

A high speed rail system would be a lot more efficient than flying cars.

[@astaroth0316]

Hahaha do you think Los Angeles has traffic problems? Go to Mexico City or to new Delhi for witnessing true traffic jams freshly made in hell

[@cutliss]

@@astaroth0316 I don't know if any city traffic can top New York City. I don't know why people go there.

[@nortonnewmann3711]

Infrastructure and improper planning is the root problem. One person driving a two-ton SUV in rush hour traffic. These are the results of profit motivated choices of a Capitalist society. No escape and no going back.

[@ritwikreddy5670]

@@astaroth0316 Delhi's population density is 30,000 people per sq mile, los los Angeles's is 7,500. And los Angeles's roads are much wider than those in Delhi. And 7 million people travel in subway everyday, that is much more than population of LA.

[@bryanx5829]

When someone drinks and drives their going to crash into buildings and power lines lol

[@technosoid2821]

Think this way, Putting Wheels to Drones seems to be Simple than adding Wings to Cars.

[@mohammedrameez8554]

The short answer: 1) Counterintuitive engineering 2) Multiple rules and regulations that need to be met 3) Expensive

[@TheZainshah0007]

imagine having hovering stop signs 😂

[@305Nick]

9/11: Am i a joke to you

[@brunodesrosiers9603]

May I ask where is your sense of proportions?

[@donnythedingo]

Ever watch The Jetsons? Soon as everything starts flying, we'll be stuck in air traffic.

[@KOKOBC]

We need to drastically improve self-driving first b/c there’s always going to be that once person that just crashes into a building

[@noonehere4332]

9/11

[@Isabel-sr8ep]

Or your the roof of your house

[@shubhankardasgupta4777]

As a young science aspirant, *CHALLENGE ACCEPTED* Greetings from India :)

[@officialspock]

Give us teleportation now Einstein

[@carlbasky7637]

Who the hell goes 2 miles an hour on a highway?

[@noonehere4332]

Traffic jams

[@matthewwallace9380]

I'm a little surprised that they didn't say much about piloting the aircraft. A few thoughts from a pilot: 1) Even for an autonomous aircraft, a trained pilot still needs to be on board the aircraft to fly it manually if the guidance system or any other major component fails. The autonomous aircraft concept works as long as nothing goes wrong, but any emergency - motor/engine failure, computer failure, low battery, unusual aircraft attitude caused by turbulence, lost communication, bird strike, severe weather, aircraft icing - would likely be fatal with no pilots on board to fly manually. 2) Your average person with a non-autonomous flying car would have to go through pilot training and be certified, and then they'd need to stay current with the requirements of maintaining their certification as pilots. 3) Long-established aviation rules dictate that every flight must have a pilot-in-command (PIC) who is responsible for the flight. An autonomous aircraft still needs a PIC to oversee the flight and to make decisions about the safety of the flight. This would require that a person serve as PIC for every autonomous flight, which would defeat the purpose of having the flight be autonomous. Even drone (UAV) flights are still required by FAA rules to have a PIC for each flight. 4) The aircraft must be able to communicate on the radio with air traffic control (ATC), and ATC must be able to track the flight of an aircraft with radar. This is necessary to provide separation from other aircraft and to facilitate the flow of air traffic. The airspace over large cities is already crowded with conventional aircraft, and it's unclear how a large number of new aircraft would be integrated into the ATC system, even if they were autonomous. 5) Changing weather conditions (or other hazards) may require alterations to the flight plan, a decision not easily made by a computer. A pilot (the PIC) needs to be available to.make decisions about contingency plans or to alter the flight route to avoid weather systems and hazards or to divert to a different landing site. I see these as much bigger challenges to flying cars than the technological challenges of designing the cars themselves.

[@buddy1155]

We DO have flying cars, you can buy a PAL-V 100% legal on road and in the air ( In US an EU )

[@yorinov2001]

NOPE - SORRY - they are taking pre-orders ONLY. they are not in production. by the way, for sale in the US it will have to pass all the safety test as any other car, EPA emissions, airbags, crash testing ...

[@buddy1155]

@@yorinov2001 You are correct! the launch is pushed back to 2021.

[@beatsbytani7875]

Just put wheels on a helicopter Engineers can thank me later

[@TheMonkeyThatDoesYourJobBetter]

These anxieties sound JUST LIKE the anxieties people had when the first vehicle was invented. :P

[@TruMaverick]

Me: Yes I want to fly Comments: Idiots cant fly yet they drive

[@sebastianelytron8450]

*1950:* In the future we will have flying cars! *2020:* Watching 1080p CNBC KZbin video on 2D screen about flying cars

[@JoaoPedro-gc8mw]

The future is really unpredictable, isn't it?

[@justicewarrior9187]

2020 GRETA

[@unicorntomboy9736]

It's just as good

[@levarmitchell3962]

The future is VTOL air taxis, which is just as cool.

[@zayneali3148]

Soooo many drunk drivers will crash in the ocean with the confidence of thinking they can make a 360 around the earth

[@NathanDavisVideos]

*1985:* "We're going to have flying cars in 2015!" *2020:* The coronavirus strikes (and we STILL don't have flying cars yet...)

[@Dangic23]

I can see some states already planning on how to install air toll booths... Lol

[@jordanjohns2890]

They can't, just fly over or under the tool booth

[@Dangic23]

@Stevie Blue Yes....lol. Putting cameras on existing public highways and sending the bills in the mail. I live in Wyoming....but go to Colorado for everything I need because Wyoming is very limited...... And I get those toll road bills weekly.

[@larrysouthern5098]

They will get your money when you land... it's true for airplanes now ( it's called Landing fees!!!)

[@HarshRajAlwaysfree]

1960's : we will have flying cars in the future 2020: why we dont have flying cars yet

[@ahmadmalli716]

1920:we will have flying cars 2020:what happened to flying cars

[@mho...]

as much as i would love to have a flying personal car, it would be a terrifying world with everyone being allowed to control a flying car!

[@flightjam]

I just can't see flying cars ever being a real thing only cause traffic is already crazy on the ground. Imagine thousands of cars above you. Yeah, no.

[@betsbeautystudio]

Peter Thiel: We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.

[@henryha835]

Probably because there isn’t a need for them.

[@nsdfancy]

henry ha are you serious? HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN TRAFFIC

[@sawyer6241]

Have you ever tried flying

[@ajgerbi]

Nsd Fancy / Traffic isn’t even bad in most places though. We shouldn’t invest trillions on flying cars just because some highway in LA or some huge city has a bit of traffic.

[@ahmadaqil301]

@@nsdfancy and flying car will fix it?

[@cs0345]

@@nsdfancy Plenty of other ways to solve traffic besides making something so pointless

[@Plantgarden88]

This is where technology is more advance than human common sense. “....like a Helicopter” which has a TRAINED PILOT.

[@victoriannecastle]

Technology is made by human. Human made technology

[@Plantgarden88]

Victorianne Castle you are clueless Einstein

[@s.a.s5662]

If anyone thinks traffic jams would be solved, lol watch Futurama 😂

[@kanishtangri245]

Am i the only one who thought of Call Of Duty when she said VTOL