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So is capitalization.
"Go help your uncle Jack off the horse".
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Email also didn't come today.
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You're back - that's what matters. Thanks for continuing the great work of a couple of decades now.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Greetings and Kind Regards
May I please inquire thoughts / opinions / judgements / knowledge of esteemed members re/ "flying cars". I simply do not understand same. Can one fly to one's grocery store? Can one fly / commute to Downtown Chicago or to Manhattan? I do not see how. Where is there wide enough space for the wings and propellers whilst landing parking? Perhaps landing pads will be provided in city center. Will one require a separate means of transport for purpose of weekly grocery shopping? I must be mistaken as Corporations are betting Billions I am wrong. The few explanatory videos I have seen present flying cars for purpose of commute to local airport. So perhaps limited to taxi service.
Thank You Kindly
[edit 1/18/2024]
From Wisk site I learned the apparent ultimate purpose seems to be taxi service. 1st to/from airport later to/from high traffic centers upon construction of necessary facilities.
modified 18-Jan-24 8:48am.
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In that case I will have to purchase a '69 Z28 and rebuild w/ electric so as to perform weekly grocery shopping as my favorite grocer is not in City Center and I do not believe they or my Uncle Marion will provide landing facilities for visit not to mention my barber.
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i don't see it happening for general public until the anti-gravity device is invented. too much airspace required for flying with traditional methods. but i could wrong.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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I could not be more in agreement though I will simply add what of course your kind self already knows id est we must unfortunately also wait for miniaturized Quark Manipulation Technology on which to base the Anti-Gravity Technology.
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who knows what it will take.
one theory is greatly decreased weight lose combined with extreme kinetic energetic opposite gravity seems to work if it doesn't kill humans. oh wait, that's not a theory.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Although of course not for flying cars I present in unlikely case your kind self is not previously knowledgeable of thereupon herewith an interesting technology for small aircraft promising greatly reduced fuel consumption via "laminar flow".
OTTO Aerospace | Introducing a revolutionary new aircraft[^]
Also they look very nice.
modified 11-Jan-24 23:01pm.
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Quote: With new ultra-high precision manufacturing techniques, these new shapes can be manufactured from advanced carbon-fiber materials to reliably achieve laminar flow in flight, dramatically reducing drag by over 30%. Our aircraft is manufactured without a rivet, seam, or gap anywhere in critical laminar flow regions. Those 'ultra-high precision manufacturing techniques' will never be cheap. Such vehicles will be out of reach of plebians like you and I.
And, of course, a dent from hail or other source will kill the aerodynamics, and bring turbulent flow right back into the picture in a big way.
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You are of course quite correct. I assume they are for plebians plebeians patricians such as Bill Gates and Elon Musk.
modified 11-Jan-24 3:46am.
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Sorry I spelled it wrong. Gates and Musk don't qualify as 'plebeians' in our system: Google - plebeian. Oligarchs - definitely.
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Wake me up when we can beam us up (or down or whatever direction you need)...
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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Thank you for taking care of the orphans.
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Flying cars have been around for over a hundred years.
The Curtiss Autoplane - Wikipedia[^] was the first.
IMHO there will never be a rush to buy them as as you say there is no place for them to take off and land.
As the aircraft designer said, "Simplicate and add lightness".
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IMO, a practical "flying car" would need to have the following attributes:
- VTOL (no runway necessary)
- Automatic flight control (there is no way that hundreds of millions of people will learn to use the manual flight-control system used by current aircraft)
- Fuel efficiency as good as or better than a ground car moving at the same speed
- Similar passenger & luggage capacity and comfort as a ground car
- Size on ground no larger than that of a ground car (foldable wings?)
- AFFORDABLE PRICE
- ...
We would also need appropriate changes to the infrastructure:
- Flight paths at the local level
- Landing areas (might repurpose current parking lots and roofs of parking buildings)
- ...
Absent these (and probably other factors that I've missed), they will never be more than a rich man/woman's plaything.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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All those reasons are precisely why I can not understand why so many firms are spending so much money on their development. Perhaps it is a matter of investor stupidity id est the presumed "Next Big Thing" (NBT). I am attempting to recall a prior such NBT which folded. Theranos is a horse of a different color. There most must have been some but at the moment none come to mind.
modified 11-Jan-24 9:19am.
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You forgot 'required maintenance' on your list.
Quite a bit of difference in consequences between a car with bald tires and a plane with a loose rotor.
Also gives new meaning to the phrase 'drop the kids off at school'.
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jschell wrote: new meaning to the phrase 'drop the kids off at school'.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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They are a dream, but not one that I suspect is really practical for the mass market: if Joe Shmoe doesn't have his car serviced for 100,000 miles (and the "Just rolled in" channel on Youtube says there are a load of Joes out there) then that's dangerous to everyone around him, but when he's 10,000 ft up in an unserviceable flying car that's a whole new level of risk!
Even self-flying cars would have the same problem in private ownership: responsibility for your actions doesn't seem to be a concept some people grasp even vaguely.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Even self-flying cars would have the same problem in private ownership: responsibility for your actions doesn't seem to be a concept some people grasp even vaguely.
But at least a self-flying car could, under certain conditions, refuse to fly anywhere but a recognised servicing centre.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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It's a massacre in 2D imagine in 3D.
Flying cars for personal use will never happen.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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