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Be the future we need, not Back to the Future
Edited in link as I only expected about 10 people to read this : http://uk.businessinsider.com/ford-isnt-working-on-flying-cars-but-the-idea-isnt-crazy-2017-3?r=US&IR=T
Gisted - The chairman added that flying cars would require automation (as a caveat) but at this moment Ford aren't interested in flying cars
Frequency
The key is automation. If flying cars are EVER going to be considered. They will be using self-driving technology. But that's still an "if."
dmr11
We already have flying cars in production, they're called helicopters.
Jumane
Stop trying to make flying cars and try making hover cars instead.
nevergoingtogiveyouupnevergoingtoletyoudown
Well they are not wrong.
theoriginal7
Guys: think of the insurance costs. Through the roof.
BloodyRain2k
Agreed, there are enough people who can't even handle 2d properly. XXL quad drones like that would be an awesome "get me my car" service tho
Helpingpeoplesometimes
Invests millions in flying car technology, doesn't use it. http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/093/953/c5b.jpg
Yakamuli444
I love the idea but I am glad that we don't have flying cars yet when I see what my fellow drivers do on the road and the red light runners
ChinaMike808
I totally agree with the spokesman; people do NOT need flying cars. Also, they need to be inspected prior to EVERY flight.
GrandSignal
Well, he's got a point there.
UberWagen
We want energy efficiency, yet we want flying cars...
MrSmilingDeath
Whenever people bring up flying cars, this is the first thought I have. People are already dumb enough on the ground.
jackrupley
That's why he's the CEO. He Knows things.
aesopcity
If we have flying cars it will be entirely automated until you're back on the ground. No effin way they're gonna let people just fly around
Orwellwasright1984
Imagine all of the "air rage" issues!
tooomanysteves
We will have soly self-driving cars before we have legal flying cars.
lenomdeplume
No truer words...
JewishMonk
Stickler here. Most people drive pretty well. Even toothless rednecks drive as well as most. The minority are just REALLY easy to spot.
leodavinci1
Re: the Ford chairman comment, if most people can't drive in 2 dimensions, then why is Ford building cars? 1 of 2
leodavinci1
The success of private aircraft pilots make a mockery of his opinion. 2 of 2
PlushtoysEveryWhere
Got hit from behind is bad enough, think about got hit from other direction like... below.
nclu
Rverence
Is this a copy and pasted Pornhub comment ? ;)
DanFranzen
There would have to be a lot of automation, like the craft can fly only at X altitude and on Y coordinates - you know, air highways. 1/
DanFranzen
As for the drunk-flyer part, craft can be equipped with devices that prevent ignition if BAC is over a certain limit.
LychFinderGeneral
NASA is creating an automated Air Traffic Control system for drones. That tech can be applied here, certainly.
gewalt
ya, lets make all the flying cars be as close as possible to each other.
Ryang256
I've always said flying cars are a horrible idea. Imagine letting the jerk who cut you off this morning have one.
drfarren
I am for flying cars as fully automated drones. Let the jerk have his flying car he can't do anything once the computer takes over.
gewalt
people said this when we transitioned to cars from horses. and yet here we are.
wurdtoyer
We have flying cars. They're called planes and they're really really hard to drive (safely).
NotAPervert
Have you flown before? Not hard at all. A little more complicated maybe, but I wouldn't really say hard.
wurdtoyer
Yeah got about 150 hours. You're right, not hard, I'm just imagining a world where some of the antics on the road are allowed in the sky.
LiterallyWorseThanHitler
Also, flying cars are stupid. They will be, definitely, less efficient and noisier than normal ones.
denigreur
And more energy consuming as well.
RogenaValorina
"less efficient"... "more energy consuming"...
gewalt
"time efficiency"
denigreur
Well, you can be less efficient in other ways that just energy ;)
madbydesign
100% of people can't drive in two dimensions. Literally.
FisterMantastic
I chortled.
slyvic
I guess google and tesla will be making the first flying cars then.
Rverence
I agree with Fords stance, let Google/Tesla take the risk ,r&d cost & enter the market if it makes financial sense
RawSuger
right..but...we are developong selfdriving cars at the moment...justa thought
fartharder
That was actually his point. They're working on automated cars.
Rverence
He continues that flying cars will need automation but Ford isn't currently interested in flying cars
Winnerrules
True, we could limit the car driving to self driving for flying and regular driving on the ground.
TGWeaver
It's a lot easier to autopilot in 2D, too.
RawSuger
easier with nothing blocking though. just follow the roads for the most part make extra "airbridges" over rives and such.
Brucecori2
Read a book where a malfunctioning self-driving car crash was the plot device.
RawSuger
https://www.sfsite.com/grc/1105/christine.jpg
SirSkellingtonBonerLord
automated cars will also have owners who don't give a crap about maintenance. meaning falling cars everywhere still.
HighwayStar
WE already don't give a shit. Cars look after themselves these days. Top up a few fluids, air pressure in tyres and you're good to go.
Rverence
Flying & automated cars require a trust in humanity to maintain as you say, both answers to questions we shouldn't ask
CookingBaconDrunkAndNaked
Can't you automate maintenance? Like...car needs oil change and it drives itself to get it done when you are asleep or something...
nclu
Since automation is coming anyway, is the fuel cost to keep aloft justified by the lack of road maintenance?
RawSuger
not at all:) it might be justified by reducing taffic blocks especially if run by GOV or corporations as taxis
Dramacian
Good idea. You arrive in your car > auto dock > select destination > auto flight > delivered > you go on with your car.
HeyItsABow
At least until the bloatware in the car computer chokes up the memory space, leaving you with 5 locations to travel to.
swatz
Ever had a computer where everything stops working for a bit, while it's paging memory to make space for a new operation. (coyote sign)
HeyItsABow
No but I've frozen my phone after having 30 apps open for 10 days. Does that count?
swatz
Sure.. just joking about your car flying along when, then :) http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/wile.jpg
TGWeaver
Consumer-available, fully-automated self-driving cars are likely still a few years away -- self-flying is much, much more complex.
neil137
you can buy several legal self driving cars now. also planes have auto-pilot and auto-land
Dramacian
It is indeed, for humans. Planes are already on full auto. I guess it will be just like taking the bus/train but with your own vehicle.
Corona688
Self-flying is finickier, and if you get it wrong you die, but much less COMPLICATED than self-driving. No stoplights or one-way streets.
Burghguy
A flying car with a drunk driver is an unguided missile.
Trollslegur
You mean a rocket?
Kingduckky
So a rocket?
FungusForge
No, its a drunk missile.
RepostFromLastWeek
As long as its level 5 autonomous, it doesn't really matter.
gobbo
Sounds like we need missile guidance systems. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Bby5pOVZJ0
TodayIsSlapANaziDay
Corona688
forget fire and forget, its forget and fire
SexyFred
It's a little guided, like drunk advice, it's a misguided missle
TemporaryUzername
and a road vehicle with a drunk driver is an unguided land rocket.
Burghguy
Precisely.
TheUpdootist
Require a breathalyzer for all flying cars? I know, i know, "civil liberties", you say. I say i dont want to get murdered by a DD. 1/2
PorneliusHubertII
Or require a pilots liscence to purchase a flying car?
PrincessDonaldTrumpBANNED
You think its hard to fool a breathalyzer? Safer to just wait to auto driving/flying takes over
TheUpdootist
Psh, i aint gonna let no computer drive any hunk of metal that im in!
MoReRoo
You don't fly in airplanes then?
TheUpdootist
Shhhh.
TheUpdootist
Plus side is that dying by flying car would be much cooler than dying by regular car. 2/2
Rverence
It would be a great tale to tell down the pub ...if you weren't dead :)
IrateCanadien
Free cremation.
cutiepatoodiepumpkinbooty
"Plus side is that dying by motor vehicle would be much cooler than dying by horse and buggy." ~Some guy circa 1879
DeadnCold
Well he's not wrong. Can you imagine the world where a slight fender bender ends in a 1000 foot fall and a fiery crash that kills everyone?
Hammsammiches
I can imagine that. I'm also smiling.
Puffletop
EVERYONE.
BenO7
We should be thinking of using flying cars at low altitudes, and to alleviate traffic congestion. 1/2
twentyfourcharacterslong
I wish.
DreadCarcass
You mean a plane crash?
Shamalamadingdongz
worth it.
tomyironmane
We live in that world. it's just that the fall is 35,000 feet and there are hundreds of "everyone" on each aircraft.
echonite
Yes, I can. And I would prefer not to have that.
InfiniteSynapse
They should make the screening stricter and get surveillance data on how the driver behaves. Or better yet, driverless.
isilzha
This and the OP has been my argument for a long time now.(Exact words with driving in 3D.) And the most common breakdown: running out of gas
drenix
I don't know why that thought put a smile on my face. I didn't know I could still smile, thank you
BenO7
Maybe the fly up to a certain altitude and then go over some kind of safety-net path. 2/2
PierzOr
Technically speaking, cars also move in three dimensions unless if they're on a perfectly level surface.
simplefishy
You got me on that hill.
simplefishy
Would give Darwin a run for his money
thatwoodguy
This is why you need self-driving vehicles FIRST
yoshi
that way we control population growth AND get rid of bad drivers, win-win
agoddamnferret
That's not as likely because in all reality humans shouldn't be the designated operators of those vehicles when they're flying, 1/2
agoddamnferret
You'll need to have predesignated flight paths, with autonomous control by the vehicle following a predesigned route.
TheMonsterWithinYou
Or the fact many people are selfish as fuck and drink and drive. We don't need drunk assholes in the sky too
animatronicvelcrorat
well, arguably there's drunk assholes in the sky already, if first class of delta flights is any indication
DawnTakeYouALL
I think the air flight is on auto pilot and I don't think anyone in their right mind would sell everyone a flying car and let them drive it.
TGWeaver
How about running out of gas? Or a slight malfunction? Imagine if instead of having to pull over it meant a nosedive or emergency landing.
Pafolo
People cant maintain there own cars let alone a helicopter car. It has to always be 110% no fucking around. Plus no one can afford it.
animatronicvelcrorat
in theory, you should be able to auto gyro a quad-rotor copter... I don't expect most people I share the road with to know that though...
Corona688
An autogyro, though, is about as close to an idiot-proof flying car you can get. If it stalls... You just... drift down.
Corona688
A quadcopter is really isn't stable enough for that. There's no real force keeping it upright except constant powered corrections
NotAPervert
It's also a lot harder to hit someone up there. Training would need to be much higher than current needed for license though.
Freeflare
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-air_collision
Rverence
When you say a "a lot harder to hit someone up there", you're right ,we will need to increase the standard of anti-aircraft gun training ;)
leodavinci1
Most people replying to this are guilty of the same type of thinking as Khan in the Wrath of Khan... thinking two dimensionally. 1 of ?
leodavinci1
There exist "highways in the sky" with thousands of vehicles on them, and each lane of travel is one way and at different altitudes. 2 of ?
leodavinci1
That exists for commercial flights and is at a certain minimum altitude and higher. Private aircraft fly at lower altitudes, but in a 3 of ?
leodavinci1
fashion. "Flying cars" would operate in the same manner but probably at lower levels down to the ground. No fender benders because 4 of ?
leodavinci1
traffic in any particular direction will not intersect traffic going in opposite our cross directions. Besides, most of you seem to 5 of ?
Rverence
Damn you, you've given Steven Seagal another film script ;)
Twichy
@StevenSeagal
DrKriegersClone
More Michael Bay, I think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxgkXxa9c3s
Cptmike
Fender Man
TheVampireDante
Comrade Seagal won't see it for a while, so we're safe for now.
MadDrDrillBit
steven seagull in.. The Flock
Rex83ll4t0r
Featuring V.Putin
iamthisguy247
*reads script* "mine, mine, mine."
Donnicton
Time's running out, and he has no flocks to give. Coming this summer.
Rverence
:) give that man a round of applause
Buckbeak1486
Better not... He's already round enough!
Rverence
Mmm ,it might have to be a flying truck then ;)
MistaGavin
I've been flying cars for like 35 years
mypostsdontgetmanyupvotes
Assuming you are a pilot this reminds me of people claiming drones that can carry a passenger is something new as well....
Insideanus
I've been practice martial arts for like 86 years
MadDrDrillBit
you 2 should make a movie
Insideanus
We're quoting comedian Tom Segura who has a incredible bit about Segal