When will news media stop falling for this shit?

Oh, yes, when it stops generating clicks. I am part of the problem.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮
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    26 days ago

    I’ve seen plenty of working flying cars since the late 90’s.

    Word to the media: don’t bother us with this shit until they have a working idea on how to monitor and regulate the shit so we can all have flying cars and not just one dude’s stupid prototype. The hard thing isn’t making a car that can fly. That shit is relatively easy. The hard part is figuring out how air traffic would work if everyone was up there. It’s already a PITA and there aren’t a helluva lot of planes compared to cars.

    • veee
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      2526 days ago

      I’ve already seen how ordinary people drive in two dimensions. Three dimensions is an impossible ask.

      • @[email protected]
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        25 days ago

        I always find it amusing when sci Fi games with flying cars have them still driving in imaginary floating highways, it’s like they know they would regulate it into 2D autopilot sky roads somehow

        • @[email protected]
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          325 days ago

          We’ve basically done that with flight patterns for aircraft in busy areas right now, so it makes sense.

      • @[email protected]
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        526 days ago

        So now we have to look both ways AND up to make sure some moron doesnt drop a car on my head?

        Fuck that noise…

    • magnetosphere
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      826 days ago

      Whenever someone talks about practical, real-life flying cars, regulation is the first thing I think about, too. How will they be sure that some dipshit isn’t texting while flying over a school?

    • AnIndefiniteArticle
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      426 days ago

      Word to the media: don’t bother us with this shit until they have a working idea on how to monitor and regulate the shit so we can all have flying cars and not just one dude’s stupid prototype. The hard thing isn’t making a car that can fly. That shit is relatively easy. The hard part is figuring out how air traffic would work if everyone was up there. It’s already a PITA and there aren’t a helluva lot of planes compared to cars.

      If they’re all automated and coordinating, NASA has put a lot of effort into researching how to coordinate a swarm of airborne agents with diverse goals.. I’d imagine that these prototypes have gotten further development and a reality-collision as drone systems have been deployed and evolving in the Ukrainian theatre. The tech for this might actually finally be ready.

    • @[email protected]
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      226 days ago

      I’ve seen plenty too. They fly over sometimes. I believe they are called “helicopters”.

  • @[email protected]
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    2926 days ago

    Calling this thing a “real life flying” car is generous. This thing just looks like a mock-up at best and it didn’t appear to even have a driver/pilot during the demo.

    This thing will be bad in the air and bad on the ground.

    • @[email protected]
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      625 days ago

      It looks like how I drew cars when I was 5 years old (who am I kidding, it would probably still look like that if I attempted to draw one today).

  • @[email protected]
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    2126 days ago

    Please no flying cars. Please no. The jetsons made it look cool, but that was a cartoon made in the days before 9/11 and cell phones happened.

    Now imagine some distracted driver, watching a tiktok while driving, and oops, they did another 9/11.

    Now imagine that happens every week. Not because of terrorists, but because of idiots! WE HAVE A LOT OF IDIOTS IN THIS COUNTRY!!!

    …please no.

    • @[email protected]
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      525 days ago

      Cars crash into buildings all the time. Even if you took the largest consumer car and “drove” it as fast as possible into the side of a skyscraper, you wouldn’t be able to cause anything close to another 9/11.

      That said, these are terrible for other reasons.

    • @[email protected]
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      425 days ago

      Why would you assume these would be driven? This looks like a Hollywood special effect reel from the 1950s. We are close to having fully autonomous vehicles already. Any practical application of this couldn’t happen for at least another 20years. If we are still driving our own vehicles by then we are all pretty fucked already.

    • @[email protected]
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      325 days ago

      In fact we have the largest strategic reserve of idiots in the world! Even our president is an idiot!

  • Smuuthbrane
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    1826 days ago

    If that’s a “real car” then my left testicle is a genuine mild Italian meatball.

  • @[email protected]
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    25 days ago

    America can’t have 4-wheeled road-legal flying cars. 4-wheeled road legal cars must have airbags, but airbags are forbidden in aircraft.

    EDIT: I stand corrected.

    • @[email protected]
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      425 days ago

      Airbags are not forbidden in aircraft. They just haven’t been considered to offer enough safety benfit for their weight and cost in most cases. That is starting to change though, and airbags integrated into aircraft seatbelts are becoming more common. They can be found in first class in a number of commercial aircraft, and are sold to be retrofitted into private planes.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airplane_airbags

      https://www.amsafe.com/product/airbag-restraint-systems/

      There are many reasons I doubt this car will make it into commercial production, but the airbags will be OK.

      • @[email protected]
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        225 days ago

        TIL. I was regurgitating what I saw in a video a while back about the Switchblade, which was supposedly 3 wheeled because of the airbag thing.

  • @[email protected]
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    1226 days ago

    The last thing we need is flying cars, even if they do get a proper pilot’s license. You don’t exactly get air brakes while in the air, and at least in the USA, recently Elmo Turnip decided to cut flight safety…

    • @[email protected]
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      326 days ago

      All the more reason for flying cars in the US:

      • No flight safety

      • So expensive only the rich can afford them

  • @[email protected]
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    1025 days ago

    It’s a lightweight 3d printed exoskeleton of a car using drone like motors and fans. The journalist who went in person was not allowed to be close or watch someone get in or out of the vehicle. While in air it is pretty obvious there is no interior seating just what looks like 2 large fans on the bottom. To call this even a concept of a flying car is incorrect at best it’s a custom drone.

  • @[email protected]
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    726 days ago

    the safety of the actual car is good enough for consumers

    This is a revealing statement.

  • @[email protected]
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    726 days ago

    I saw the article before somewhere on my newsfeed and didn’t click on it. Until we get some kind of new type of technology, flying cars will always be planes or drone that kinda looks like a car.

  • Curious Canid
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    225 days ago

    I’ve seen kites that looked more convincing. There are now some real, functional flying cars, although they are still far too expensive to be practical. This is not one of them.

  • ekZepp
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    125 days ago

    Then, how about posing just a screeshot in a shitpost group or similar?