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- krolm, on 10/10/2007, -11/+157"Maximum payload is 250 pounds, so you'll need to buy one for each adult member of the family."
I don't think most Americans will be able to make use of it. - wildfire, on 10/10/2007, -7/+120World's first flying car totaled by Lindsay Lohan in flying car.
- Markrosoft, on 10/10/2007, -0/+56Comes with safety crane and 100ft of rope.
- ChillyEli, on 10/10/2007, -2/+49It starts with one vehicle. Next thing you know we have Fifth Element on our hands.
Next thing you know we have Milla Jovovich look-a-likes running around wearing nothing but a bandaid.
Please let this take off....please.... - sockpuppets, on 10/10/2007, -3/+47The guy in the video is still attached to a crane. Not a real confidence builder.
- OBKenobi, on 10/10/2007, -2/+44Yeah, right.
- nesibus, on 10/10/2007, -9/+37A flying car is the most pointless invention, do to just safety alone. Let one good down draft or a storm pop up and watch high winds throw that sucker all over the place. A motor dying is not as simple as pulling over since the thing has no glide ratio, good luck with that high speed crash into the ground.
People can barely drive safe as it is now.
Pointless. - jollyholly, on 10/10/2007, -7/+33@facelesscoward
UFO = Unidentified Flying Object
If we know what it is, how can it be a UFO? - CrimsonBlur, on 10/10/2007, -3/+27Total crap. They were making vehicles exactly like this 50 years ago, and this one doesn't function any better. Buried, again.
- drcreek, on 10/10/2007, -3/+27Wait. Anyone else see the strings?
- enginbeering, on 10/10/2007, -1/+21That would imply that it's unidentified...
I'd identify it as a flying saucer. - crispyjones, on 10/10/2007, -0/+20Moller has been "one year away" from a flying car for the last twenty years. Never gonna happen. These kind of hi-jinks really detract from important things like jet pack research.
- adage, on 10/10/2007, -1/+20In 2003, the Securities and Exchange Commission sued Moller for civil fraud (Securities And Exchange Commission v. Moller International, Inc., and Paul S. Moller, Defendants) in connection with the sale of unregistered stock, and for making unsubstantiated claims about the performance of the Skycar. Moller settled this lawsuit by agreeing to a permanent injunction and paying $50,000.[11] In the words of the SEC complaint, "As of late 2002, MI's approximately 40 years' of development has resulted in a prototype Skycar capable of hovering about fifteen feet above the ground."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moller_Skycar - zeromancer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16if you had read another sentence or two, it also says that these restrictions can be removed for rescue vehicles.
- Crimsoneer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16The words "none whatsoever" come to mind...
- bebop717, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15Does not float over traffic so I can laugh at them, no digg.
- mindblaze, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14im an idiot i meant call
- nonpareil, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13When I see "Moller," I think "vaporware."
- ricree, on 10/10/2007, -4/+16Looks like the exact same thing that was posted last week, and it was a scam then too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moller#SEC_complaint
This thing has been "in development" for over 30 years. - mywhitenoise, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13if you don't fly it in the sea, then you wont.
- markb, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12This video is quite old, as in decades. It's from an early test flight. What's suspicious is that they don't have any recent video of this thing flying.
- RaggTopp, on 10/10/2007, -6/+18Yes it's a dupe, and the JERK who submitted it knowing FULL WELL IT WAS A DUPE is now digging all comments saying such, down.
- heavyal, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13sad but true - i'm 6'3 and weigh in at around 300 - its not all fat but this restriction still leaves me out!
- Humptydank, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11This guy's been just about to revolutionize transportation since I was 16 and believed it. It's always the same deal, touchy near-death test hops, or bold test flights with a crane tether.
The only way I'm going to be flying to work is if Dean Kamen sees this video and gets so offended that Moller is trying to get regular people inside one, that he goes into his workshop for a weekend and makes a prototype that can fly at 15,000 feet and still auto-land with an unconscious pilot.
Please Dean, save our dreams of the future. - Tr33fiddy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11This may be stating the obvious but... that doesn't look safe.
- OverkillTASF, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12This reminds me of one of the headlines from SimCity.
Do I get to build my Arco's now? - phuzzy3d, on 10/10/2007, -7/+17About ***** time!
- biercenator, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Comes with a free bucket of earplugs, one pair for you, and the rest for anyone unfortunate enough to live within earshot of your garage.
- DaBrainiac, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11Finally. It's only 2007.... geesh.
- raynar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Except that this will NEVER sell. It will be 100+ years before we have flying cars. Hell, people die on the road everyday, now we'll give them access to go anywhere and crash into anything?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9I'll make sure to pitch some rebar into your fans as you fly over.
- burnstyle, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8thats actually the first thing i would want
- kenyon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9So, it's slower than a car, can't go a far as a car, harder to operate than a car (by the looks), has less capacity (seating) than a car and costs a lot more than a car. What's the point?
P.S. I'd also like to see how many miles per gallon it gets. - craig4, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7i wish i would have said this first, but this guy on the site commented:
BY OBSERVER AT 04:57 PM
Being shot under a crane doesn't help the credibility of the video. - SneezingTree, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8$90,000?!?! you can buy a fully featured plane for just over half that!
http://www.controller.com/listings/forsale/list.asp?man=CESSNA&mdlgrp=172&pdcl=1
Additionally, judging by this video, I need a crane to hold me up. sounds worth 90k! [/sarcasm] - polyGone, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Don't worry, I am too.
- spawnfree, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7it can barely carry one person.
so it couldnt possibly transport all your fitness equipment back from the shops. - uninvolved, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8Yeah that's pretty fat...
- kahrn, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8God damnit. Not only does this article scream 'BS', but the video featured is well known to of been filmed some time around 1975. Why do people keep showing the OLD video?
People are skeptical and they have ever right to be, but can we make decisions based on a video not from almost a quarter of a god damned century ago? like, say, a recent one? - jeremymccurdy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7About as much as you could get with a Segway
- gazwilwah, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7Hmmmmm isn't that a crane in the background?
- Magee1205, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Old Macdonald or McDonald's?
- DannyBoy7783, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Darko Arco FTW!
You can't help but love sub-humans living in the air vents. - panzergeist, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Unless it's muscle. If a guy who's 6'3" lifts weights, there is a good chance for him to break the 250 mark easily.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Flying hummers?
Mile high club, anyone? - spawnfree, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5lies.
- fantasticFlan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5It stops being a car long before 8 tons.
- psiDevil98, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6My thoughts exactly. I don't think this idea will ever take off.
/pun - rickyuser, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Hilarious, checkout the pictures. They have to have been taken in the 70's, check out Sonny Bono behind the wheel. Apparently the car of tomorrow was made when my parents were still in high school. If that is the future of transportation, then Scott Baio is the worlds biggest movie star.
- ajb2015, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4RTFA
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