Flying Car Cleared for Road Use

[Wushu Panda]

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/175810/20110707/flying-car-transition-terrafugia-inc-roadable-aircraft-car-plane-21st-century-2012-shipping-massachu.htm

A recent article in International Business Times reports of a new car/plane vehicle that can transform from one to the other with the push of a button.

"The Transition can fly at 115 mph and reach 65 mph on the road. On the ground, with its wings tucked up and in, it can fill up with auto gas at a normal filling station and it fits in any average-sized garage."

They say they have 100 orders already planning to release them next year. Just think of it, gas stations having to install landing strips, lol. All we need is a more efficient energy source and before you know it flying cars will be a common sight.

 

[Casual Shinji]

I think RedLetterMedia said it best in The Phantom Menace review when they discribed Coruscant as "home of the mid air collision".

The moment they allow everyone and their gandma to own personal aircraft is when I'm moving to a bunker.

 

[ChildofGallifrey]

I couldn't help but laugh. It's a cool idea, and just knowing that we have the technology to do that is great, but there really aren't a lot of good ways that this can end.

Please, for the love of all-powerful Athiesmo, tell me that the people buying these things at least need to have a pilots license??

 

[Thaluikhain]

Eh, I'm betting it drives worse than a car, flies worse than a plane, and costs more than either.

They had a flying car back in the 70's or something, but it took alot of mucking around to convert it from one mode to the other. And the legal restrictions for using it put lots of people of. You needed a driver's licence, chaffeur's licence and a medical exam to drive it, and a pilot's licence and a different medical exam to fly it.

And anyways, you could get your hands on an amphibious car/boat thing much easier for decades, but they weren't popular.

 

[dalek sec]

I think RedLetterMedia said it best in The Phantom Menace review when they discribed Coruscant as "home of the mid air collision".

The moment they allow everyone and their gandma to own personal aircraft is when I'm moving to a bunker.

Ditto, this is going to turn into a nightmare the moment everyone and their grandparents get personal aircraft to use...

You think you can get me the name of the guys who built your bunker Shinji, I'm in the south and there's a crapload of awful drivers down here. D:

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Please, for the love of all-powerful Athiesmo, tell me that the people buying these things at least need to have a pilots license??

Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking.

 

[The Heik]

I think RedLetterMedia said it best in The Phantom Menace review when they discribed Coruscant as "home of the mid air collision".

The moment they allow everyone and their gandma to own personal aircraft is when I'm moving to a bunker.

I second this.

Honestly how did they get clearance for this? We have enough trouble with car crashes on a 2D plane. Imagine how bad it's going to get if the get the Y axis to fuck around with? We're going to have little old ladies and drunk drivers busting through our ceilings at 115 mph.

Hell I don't think even a bunker is going to be safe enough

Also why do I have the feeling that THIS will now be plausible?:

 

[aba1]

I think I really really really want this

 

[Araksardet]

It's about time.

 

[Avaholic03]

Wonder what kind of gas mileage it gets on the ground and in the air. It's not going to be very attractive if it costs too much to operate.

 

[viranimus]

Yeah... this is possibly the dumbest idea ever.

I cant help but to wonder if this isnt the new direction the oil companies want considering fears of electric vehicles. So they figure, hey we will get behind these new gas guzzling hybrids, and everyone will want it and we will be saved. Sort of nonsense.

Oh well.... Do not want.

 

[Staskala]

I couldn't help but laugh. It's a cool idea, and just knowing that we have the technology to do that is great, but there really aren't a lot of good ways that this can end.

Please, for the love of all-powerful Athiesmo, tell me that the people buying these things at least need to have a pilots license??

Of course they need one.
You can fly them "just like a plane" in the sense that you need to drive to an airport and abide by all normal laws regulating take-off, landing, altitude, flight restrictions and so on.
That's sadly the inherent problem with flying cars, you can't exactly fly wherever and whenever you want, so you might as well just buy a plane and a car, which would also be a lot cheaper.

I guess this would be kinda cool if you wanted to travel between two locations that just happened to have an airport for small civilian aircraft nearby, but since you'd have get just the right slots you probably wouldn't even be any faster.
And that's also assuming that this thing can even get a license for commercial air travel, which I highly doubt.

Then again, it's not like this thing is supposed to have any practical use, so whatever.

 

[Casual Shinji]

I think RedLetterMedia said it best in The Phantom Menace review when they discribed Coruscant as "home of the mid air collision".

The moment they allow everyone and their gandma to own personal aircraft is when I'm moving to a bunker.

Ditto, this is going to turn into a nightmare the moment everyone and their grandparents get personal aircraft to use...

You think you can get me the name of the guys who built your bunker Shinji, I'm in the south and there's a crapload of awful drivers down here. D:

Don't worry, this whole flying car nonsense is never gonna get off the ground anyway. *ba-bum tish*

 

[Terminate421]

How would they pull you over for speeding if you are going at the limit you need to to fly?

 

[ADeskofRichMahogany]

Uhhhhh...

This is going to end poorly...

 

[William MacKay]

I couldn't help but laugh. It's a cool idea, and just knowing that we have the technology to do that is great, but there really aren't a lot of good ways that this can end.

Please, for the love of all-powerful Athiesmo, tell me that the people buying these things at least need to have a pilots license??

there was one flying car i saw on a James May show where you need a pilot licence, drivers licence and chauffeurs licence it was so long.
OT: great, we have the technology. now dont make them. at the moment, the biggest thing that can hit you is a lorry/bus (depending on where you are). now imagine if its a Boeing.

if you google midair, the top result is collision.

 

[gbemery]

great I see plenty of people who don't know how to drive as it is let alone fly. Does this mean every morning before I go to class or work that i will have to submit to a TSA agent strip searching me :/