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[EverydayBeast]

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Hybrid, fuel cell and now flying cars Toyota is on fire

 

[VlaudTheImpaler]

Can't wait for it to come to flight sim.

I actually had the thought the other day that it's really cool that flight sim arrived when it did so more people could learn the basics of flight. It primes the future public for flying cars and such.

 

[Cunth]

Looks a bit retarded

 

[DESTROYA]

How exactly is this a car ? It has no wheels.
People can barely drive cars never mind piloting aircraft. I see many Karens “driving“ into houses.

 

[Coolwhhip]

I can already see senior citizens fly these so slowly they fall from the sky.

Also decapitation.

 

[Deleted member 1159]

That’s not a car, it’s Biggaru Duronu-desu

 

[frostyxc]

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Hybrid, fuel cell and now flying cars Toyota is on fire

When discussing flying cars, "on fire" is probably the type of language you want to keep away from. Once AI is good enough, I could see flying cars being something worth using, though.

 

[MaestroMike]

Looks sweet but that can't drive on the road. Flying cars should be able to fly in air, but also still drive of the road with it's wings tucked in the side or whatever.

 

[Guilty_AI]

Thats just a manned drone

 

[Mr Nash]

Neat as a concept, but with the sheer number of shit drivers out there, I wouldn't be very enthusiastic about these things becoming the norm before AI does all the work.

 

[RoboFu]

Flying cars won’t be a thing until antigravity is figured out. Now if you car engine stops you just coast and can still brake. in any propulsion system a flying car would just drop with engine failure.

 

[n0razi]

Yeah, I don't trust 90% of current drivers to be anywhere near those controls

 

[LaughingStock]

That's an ugly drone

 

[poppabk]

Looks a bit retarded

A lot less retarded than that one the US military were looking at which looked like the modern equivalent of a chair with balloons tied to it.

 

[Rickyiez]

Flying cars won’t be a thing until antigravity is figured out. Now if you car engine stops you just coast and can still brake. in any propulsion system a flying car would just drop with engine failure.

This and I bet it will be mostly AI driving when this became a reality .

 

[Foamy]

Neat as a concept, but with the sheer number of shit drivers out there, I wouldn't be very enthusiastic about these things becoming the norm before AI does all the work.

Exactly. The only way Joe Public ever gets to own flying vehicles on mass is if they're piloted by AI.

 

[hard_boiled]

These will hit the dealerships in 2021, right? I can ring my bank about a reverse mortgage

 

[MilkLizard]

Yeah, I don't trust 90% of current drivers to be anywhere near those controls

Make that 99%. And that counts for me too, I’d die in one of those things.

 

[V1LÆM]

this is dumb. flying cars will never happen.

 

[natjjohn]

This honestly looks dumb. As others have noted, only practical if autonomous.

 

[Kenpachii]

Good luck dying in that thing.

 

[Romulus]

Not impressed with this at all.

 

[Airola]

So it's a helicopter?

 

[DESTROYA]

So it's a helicopter?

More like a giant drone but yes.

 

[Atrus]

As novel as the demonstration was, until you can make large flying objects run silently they're not going to be remotely feasible for consumer transportation.

 

[Elektro Demon]

I kinda hate ultra high tech stuff. Just gimme an internal combustible diesel/gasoline engine and call it a day.

 

[oagboghi2]

I kinda hate ultra high tech stuff. Just gimme an internal combustible diesel/gasoline engine and call it a day.

Do you hate medicine and surgeries

Like others have said, that is closer to a drone than a flying car.

 

[notseqi]

Cool, a helicopter

 

[Great Hair]

 

[V4skunk]

I kinda hate ultra high tech stuff. Just gimme an internal combustible diesel/gasoline engine and call it a day.

I wouldn't call it high tech.

 

[Great Hair]

2 years ago (flying bathtub)

1 year ago



6 months ago

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

6 months ago

Mental. I wonder what the g-forces and motion sickness are like if you were piloting or a passenger in one of those. Drones are capable of some very acute turns, spins, vector changes etc and I'm super curious how humans would handle that in flight. There's no way the general public or even a large percentage of those that could pilot them safely will be able to withstand the forces and movements this tech will enable. I suppose they'll build in AI controls around limits or mode settings.

 

[Susurrus]

Cuz that's what we need, Maryland drivers in the air.

 

[NecrosaroIII]

Cuz that's what we need, Maryland drivers in the air.

Imagine Boston drivers

 

[Great Hair]

Mental. I wonder what the g-forces and motion sickness are like if you were piloting or a passenger in one of those. Drones are capable of some very acute turns, spins, vector changes etc and I'm super curious how humans would handle that in flight. There's no way the general public or even a large percentage of those that could pilot them safely will be able to withstand the forces and movements this tech will enable. I suppose they'll build in AI controls around limits or mode settings.

Hence the bathtub low budget custom build. It does not matter how much, everything stays inside the bathub. Downside : meant for just 1x person

 

[West Texas CEO]

It's 2020, and this is all we get?

What happened to the Jetson-esque future?

 

[Kenpachii]

Will be at the end of the year on the market for sale in netherlands i believe.

 

[DESTROYA]

Imagine Boston drivers

There are bad drivers everywhere, I blame cellphones and the other electronic devices for constant distractions.

 

[MrS]

Hell of a lot of people are gonna be Kirsty MacColl'd if this is the future.