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- -Jaguar-, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Old people can barely drive. I'd hate to see them fly.
- pdkrocul, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3 "It will also come with an electric calculator (to help fine-tune weight distribution)..."
Development is currently on hold until the students resolve the HP vs TI debate. - cr3ative, on 10/12/2007, -0/+310 years ago is on the phone, they want Chitty Chitty Bang Bang back.
- quokkapox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2We already have flying cars. They're called helicopters.
- MrDevious, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Isn't one of the most important features of flying cars the ability to do a vertical take off and landing? This is more a driveable personal airplane than a flying car.
- Midnightbrewer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Most people can barely drive. If you let them fly, how would you conduct traffic control? It'd be a nightmare.
- thomashallock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1F-18s have retractable wings?
- Itkovian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"i'll beleive it when i see a video" (typo intentionally not corrected)
Try renting Back to the Future. There's your proof. - ethos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I just clocked you doing 30 stupids in a no stupid zone.
I'm going to have to give you a ticket. - lintmonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1...and don't *ever* run out of gas. Pulling over is not an option.
- LoganKriete, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Lobbster - "ummm it just a plane i needs vtol with out vtol there is no point as u can t back out of ya driveway and take off also no protoypes not even enginless mockups and the point that it is just a plane no digg"
No comment needed. This is the type of crappy, lazy-assed sentances with no propper grammar or even spelling that digg is, unfortunately, full of. I wasn't going to even comment on this until I saw him say "I needs" - that, in my opinion, isn't at all excusable. We need to get proper guidelines up if we ever want to be as big as Slashdot. Look at their comments - most of the ones modded down is because the poster spelled so completely bad with such bad grammar that no one could even understand what they're trying to say. C'mon digg - let's kill Slashdot!!!
Oh, and of course, digg++. I *love* flying cars!! It'd be nice if we saw a pic, though. - lukas88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sure, a flying car, thats easy! now a driving plane, that would be tough
- adml_shake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Man screw flying cars....I want my transporter, or Stargate....
- v3xt0r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0people can't even drive properly on the ground, much less the air!!
- xLiKx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0it'll probably use up a whole tank of gas just starting up the engine
- ScottishCaptain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0>Once we get flying cars, it will officially be "The Future", right?
***** no.
By then the "future" will be that of teleporters operated by Scots'men. - Vlatro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0- "If they want to create low-altitude flying cars, they will have to be fully automated so that the
computers can handle attitude adjustment, levelling, avoidance and the like."
Bad Idea. The "Blue screen of Death" should never become a literal term. There's nothing worse than a screen that pops up telling you there has been a "Critical system fault", except possibly that screen popping up at 2,500 feet.
Landing in line at a drive up ATM would really suck. Running out of gas (My sister does that once every 2 weeks or so.) Then there's the idiot who forgets to collapse the wings before entering the automatic carwash. We would need turn signals for Up and Down in addition to left and right, basically doubling the chance the old bastard driving in front of me will leave it on even though he's not turning for 6 more exits. Not that I imagine many elderly people would be flying one of these. I don't think something that heavy can go airborne at 15mph. Without any clearly marked street signs, how many people would just fly around in circles, unable to distinguish one building from the next. Lets put all those toll road cashiers out of work. Immigration records and customs checks would be rendered useless. Enter the $1500 per month insurance bills, wich would be needed to offset the damage done by the estimated 800,000,000 Asian drivers taking to the skys.
Sounds great, but I'll pass on this technology. - motionblur, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Old people can barely drive. I'd hate to see them fly."
Replace "old" with "most" and you'll be on to something... - Philbert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"What would you do for a flying car?
http://www.viewaskew.com/tv/leno/flyingcar.html"
Aw you beat me to it, I was just about to post this. - felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Screw the flying car, I want the AirScooter:
http://news.com.com/Get+ready+for+the+AirScooter/2100-1041_3-5672783.html?tag=nl - inotocracy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Would be interesting to see, hell, I'd love to attempt to fly it. Its kinda fugly though.
- dwhitbeck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0And you think driving is dangerous? Wait until all the commuters are trying to land or take off at rush hour.
- stanleyfresh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah, dwhitbeck... that's what I was thinkin.... and not just the drivin that'll be bad. The DRUNK driving will be pure hell. Just imagine even one or two of em. There'll be cars flying and landing (or crashing, rather) into grocery stores and banks and even people's homes, and to top it all off, all the terrorists need now is a fleet of rented cars and they be "flying" them into buildings left and right. Pure chaos, I'm tellin ya.
- ledavee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://www.dailywav.com/0800/flyingcars.wav
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0forget flying, most people would rather use this car because of the mileage
- thatsiebguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0blah blah blah, lets see it get past the FAA..
- CaptainChad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is old news. Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang was done decades ago.
- supnah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The gov't won't even let us use our phones without checking on us. We can't drive without a license, and there's a special one for motorcycles. Notaries have to take a class just to stamp impressions into paper. If and when the future (in all its flying car glory) arrives there are definitely going to be some big flaming hoops to jump through before we can use the unlabelled eye laser scanner to start the ignition.
"Wrong laser! Wrong laser!" - o0joshua0o, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Once we get flying cars, it will officially be "The Future", right?
- CadMasterAdam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Somehow i feel i am the doubting thomas
- stray, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0There is no way on earth that average people should be allowed to fly themselves anywhere. Flying is *significantly* more complicated than driving--and look how many car accidents we have already. If they want to create low-altitude flying cars, they will have to be fully automated so that the computers can handle attitude adjustment, levelling, avoidance and the like.
- EyeDye, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0
What would you do for a flying car?
http://www.viewaskew.com/tv/leno/flyingcar.html - CanadianAviator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Leave the flying to me. I don't trust 99% of the people out there.
- Jarasmen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow, great, a plane with folded wings, why haven't anyone though about this earlier? -_- This just won't work, they'll fail miserably. I don't expect a real popular flying car until we invent some antigravity or something.
- cmdrNacho, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0everyone says that asians are the worst drivers, but its in japan or korea is where we'll see flying cars used first, because the auto industry will say how its our privelege to how we use there vehicles that we pay for.
or we'll have viable flying cars with a good system in place, but the FAA will reserve 90% of the sky for there own purposes and the rich, leaving the rest of the 10% for the rest of us to battle over and to sit in slow moving traffic in the sky. - Tijmen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nope. The future will be when I finally get my frickin' jetpack.
- molecool, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Okay, I have seen a lot of these silly websites come and go - without EVER seeing ONE fracking video of a flying car. Not a 20 second clip of a prototype on a tether - mind you! Anyway, I gave this guy the benefit of the doubt until I read the last sentence in the article:
"The foundation cited Dietrich, one of the star students in the department, for other accomplishments. Dietrich also holds a patent for the Centrifugal Direct Injection Engine, a low-cost, high-performance rocket propulsion engine. For his doctoral work, he is researching how a fusion reactor could be used to power a spacecraft."
I mean, he's working on a fusion reactor for this? COME OOOOONNNN!!! - keeton67, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This already exists. I can't remember the mans name but he lives in LA Hills and owns a invention company. I saw a piece on either the PBS or Discovery channel. You can buy one for around $40,000 .
Right now no special license is required to fly it and it has a top altitude of 3,000 feet(I think) and a top speed of 150mph he's supposedly already taking pre-orders and it takes of from a helicopter pad he has used his to commute to work. its been awhile so I'm not exactly sure about the numbers thought. - bentwookiee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Jarasmen:
Scientists don't even really know how gravity works. I doubt we will see anti-gravity in our lifetime. - partialinfinity, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"STARGATE! Yeah Satargate!"
No, it's a Far Gate! It has nothing to do with that silly movie of which I have never seen!
[Aqua Teen Hunger Force] - FuManchu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0According to Popular Mechanics & Popular Science mags of the 1950's, we should already have gotten family/personal unit flying vehicles.
I agree that this will never happen due to FAA and other government regulations.
I agree also that there are enuff bad auto drivers on the road -- We don't need ***** flying out of the 3rd dimension to have to watch out for, too!
Last, autos have done enough to screw up stable communities where people know & care about each other, where people live and work in their "home town." This would be a further ecological & social disaster.
Frag suburban sprawl! - rijet0711, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0unless its fully 100% computer automated,
the idea will lead to dozens of injuries and deaths. - jo42, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Just get me a rocket launcher to take out these SUV flying *****...
- jo42, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Just get me a rocket launcher to take these flying SUV ***** out...
- xavi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Carl Dietrich I know that guy!!!
- Toiling, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Future headline: "Skyscraper demolition found not linked to terrorists but to drunk pilots"
gov't regulations will never allow such a thing, ever. It's why civilians aren't allowed to pilot military aircraft. - h198x, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Apparently people can't master the simple art of driving down the street without getting into an accident. Trust me, there will not be flying cars until they are 100% computer operated.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0In the future flying cars won't have wings... they will be antigrav or else they are simply airplanes.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The article says that door to door time has decreased due to airport security... It's not like this is going to change things.
Step 1 buy flying car
Step 2 fill with nitrogenous fertilizer and diesel fuel
Step 3 ... fill your tractor and plant some crops -
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