Will a FLYING CAR always be Bulls@#$? (Nerdist News w/ Jessica Chobot)
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I used to want flying cars to exist when I was younger. Thinking about it
now, I’d rather not add the possibility of me dying in my sleep because
someone crashed their car through my bedroom.
We were doomed the moment we sent the PT Cruiser to an early grave, Jess.
DOOMED!
wouldn’t it just be easier to make a car with retractable helicopter
rotors? it’s vertical takeoff/landing capabilities would negate the need of
runways and wings.
Flying car fuck that, give me a car that can go in and out of a black hole
or into fucking space or into the sun itself
Why car manufacturer does not copy idea of helicopter. Just put four wheels
on the helicopter and modify it a little to look like a car. Boom, a flying
car is created
remember the old flying car on top gear , it worked fine
Ahhh yes, I do *so* want every single freakin’ mf’ing A**HOLE! that I
encounter every damn day on the freeways and on the city streets, who
should have to have a g^dd^mn license to even set foot out of their house,
let alone to drive a car*, F*CKING W/ ME in the sky, especially if it’s
right above where millions of people will still always happen to live, go
to school, shop, find their medical care, and go to work, which is on the
freakin’ ground. Flyin’ cars, yeah, that’ll work…
I drive for a living (truck driver) and I can tell you. Most of the
dumbasses on the road I really do not want in flying cars. I don’t even
want them in regular cars. Auto-pilot sounds like a good idea, until the
tech fails. As anyone who has driven pos beater cars can tell you, cars do
not age well usually. This is just a bad idea, sounds cool but not workable
in reality. Same goes for auto-driving cars. I just don’t trust them.
Flying cars are cool in theory, but I totally don’t think they should be a
thing until I can have a force field around my house – I totally don’t need
a drunk, an asian woman, or an old dude driving through my bedroom window.
People are terrible with regular cars moving in two dimensions. We don’t
need to complicate that.
Let’s think about how often car crashes happen on freeways. How about at
5mph in parking lots. You want that shit raining down out of the sky?
I don’t need some retarded teenager crashing through my roof because they
ran out of gas. Even though there’s a God damned gauge that tells you when
fuel is low.
How shitty are people about checking blind spots? How much better will
people be about looking down through their car floor?
VTOL tech isn’t anywhere near a place where it can go on commercial
vehicles.
What I want is computer driven cars like in the movie I Robot. Imagine
traffic pretty much a thing of the past because there were no more people
too dumb to merge correctly. No more people slamming on their brakes
because they thought they missed a turn. Most traffic is because people are
stupid. Most accidents are because people are stupid. Take away the people
and we can have cars moving seamlessly just a couple feet apart at a
hundred miles an hour.
Fuck the flying car.
To have good flying cars we need to crack that anti-gravity tech the aliens
are always rubbing our noses in.
Dark energy is essentially, and natural anti-gravity. It causes the
universe to expand, at an accelerating rate, and thus may be the root force
which causes the thing we call gravity to manifest… as a fictitious
force. So, it’s a matter of harnessing dark energy.
Give it another twenty years.
We’re almost at the singularity anyway, so I’m sure we’ll figure it out.
Please don’t do flying cars cause if that happens some developer out there
will want to create the new floating 3d frogger game that will suck cause
of mini transaction flies for health to beat each level
a;sdfasdiuaosdyvbals diatura;fehpiaudv make a real damn game people!
There will never be a flying car! Mother Fricken people can’t drive on the
streets as it is, (not counting the ” Crazy Drunk Drivers”).
Badgers. It needs badgers.
IMO, as long as a “flying car” has to depend on fixed wing aerodynamics for
lift, then yes its a pipe-dream. We’d need to develop some kind of really
reliable, really powerful (but fuel efficient) turbines, or currently
sci-fi “antigravity” technologies to make a flying car a *car*, that is,
small enough and streamlined enough to be practical on the roads and
parking lots, etc.., of the world while still being capable of sustained,
reasonably safe/reliable flight. Of course, that’s just my opinion, I could
be wrong…
I want Jessica Chobot to be my wife.
What’s that you did at 1:44 :P
Shirt! Where to buy?
Also, nice job sneaking that onto today’s episode. Chobot f-bombs are
always welcome, even if they’re on a shirt. It’s the thought that counts.
Imagine a flying car police chase. Now that would be kick ass!
They built the VCR of flying vehicles, now we wait another 30 years for
them to realize that rotors would be better and create a helicopter car
hybrid with an engine that runs on our hopes and dreams of an actual flying
car..
The only way they’ll ever allow flying cars is if they’re restricted by
flying rails or floating paths. They’d never allow everyone to have freedom
of movement. It would be chaos.
Wait.
How would you land on the “grass field strip” if there are already other
flying cars on it?
How do “rocket scientists” miss this??
If we had flying cars, and assuming they were cheap enough for most of us
to afford them, it would be a disaster. The airways would be just as
congested as the roads within a couple of decades. Actually, the airways
are already congested with commercial and private aircraft.
If they were feasible, I think they should only be used for emergency
vehicles and public transport. And on the day we get flying buses I will be
changing vocations to bus pilot.
I will wait til Top Gear reviews it, if we still have a Top Gear
Am i the only 1 terrified fo stupid drunk drivers who can crash into your
roof at any second? …..time to sell my house and live in a bunker ,’
I mean, you would think that by just adding four jet engines to a normal
car would do. But apparently no.
The only way you are going to hover in mid-air in a ‘car’ is if you use
jet/turbine propulsion with VTOL capability (Such as the Harrier or X-35).
I am perplexed at how easy it is to get a license to drive a car. Just
think of all the terrible drivers that are out there right now. Adding
another dimension for them to drive/fly in will make it way more dangerous.
Hey Jessica I realize you are happily married and have a child but if you
ever want a side piece I’m here for you baby. :)
Once we’ve got the driver-less car thing down it might be possible to make
a driver-less car/quad-copter.
The Moeller flying car is the best concept so far because it’s VTOL. Give
it auto pilot and auto preflight paths and you’ll eliminate accidents in
the sky’s. Basically, the car needs to be an overgrown drone.
All flying cars should look like DeLoreans.
Cup holders. Damn straight.
loved when she said we’ve been duped. jess yo the bessss.t
I think this early version of the flying car is a very good start. I think
that making them more like miniature airplanes is definitely the way to go,
and they need to venture more in this direction by enabling an autopilot,
just like real aircraft. To my knowledge, takeoff and landing an airplane,
as well as flying in the air, is all done via computer. It should be
controlled via your cellphone or tablet. Go into your maps app, double tap
on the place you’d like to go, autopilot engage!
It should also be capable of detecting whether the vehicle is low on fuel
and prevent takeoff if the number of miles needed to travel exceeds the
amount of fuel onboard. As a failsafe (running out of fuel midair/anything
else unforeseen), it should be able to double as a glider.
Another handy feature is omnidirectional object detection (wouldn’t want to
bump into other aerocars, birds, etc.) as well as emit a signal that alerts
other drivers (their computers anyway) if/when another aerocar is in glider
mode, as to keep an eye out and avoid crossing paths in mid air.
Mmm kay. Ha!
Three things would have to happen for flying cars to exist and yes Id own
one if these things were met one YOU MUST PASS AN IQ test Two emergency
parashoot system so your car would gently fall to the ground instead of
peoples houses and three it needs to run on a safe none combustible full OH
YEAH BAD ASS STARIO SYSTME LOL
You guys dont have flying cars?
Jessica Chobot, if Aeromobil gave you one of their flying cars for FREE,
and it were legal to use here, would you actually use it to fly your family
around? Or would it sit in your garage forever?
Technically the closest thing we’ll ever see to flying cars is a VTOL no
matter how you design it because they’d need those chopper/booster things
in order to coordinate properly in the air. And to simply place them where
tires would go I highly doubt would levitate/maintain proper
balance/steering and control.
Flying cars absolutely need to be build on a retro 1950’s chasis.
Is it a flying car or a driving plane…..hrmmm
How come no one is talking about the Pal-v which is already on sale and is
practically a flying motorcycle?
I think a teleporter will become more mainstream before flying cars.
HG Wells “The First Men In the Moon” had a flying chair then a flying wood
sphere which took 3 people to moon…Antimony/Bismuth is the answer to your
flying car needs.
“..weak-sauce baby plane..” oh that cracked me up! 😀
But seriously.. Wake me the day they finally create a super-sized
drone-life craft that can carry 2-4 people with vertical lift-off, a
la Tiltrotor style!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiltrotor
I think these should be used by Police and emergency responders. Think of
how much fast they could respond.
Want a flying car but we don’t deserve it. Imagine how many cars flying
into houses or buildings. Yeah dont see it happening anytime soon
Even if we figure out the science I don’t think we will ever see flying
cars as a mode of civilian transportation, thinking about it practically
the accidents in the flying cars will undoubtedly be much worse than those
in normal cars (being high off the ground and all), in addition without
much limitation in movements both vertically and horizontally will likely
lead to more accidents and that’s without considering drunk drivers, that
said it’ll be a huge boon to the national guard.