The Flying Car!

[Perwer]

Simple; No deal. The foot I can live without, but the rest I would refuse.

 

[cheesecake123]

there is a design flaw with the hover car.
what if you run out of fuel?

Parachutes. Lots of parachutes.

but what about the car flying into the ground

 

[manaman]

meh, its a bit inpractical anyway, do you know how dangerous a mid-air collision could be with flying cars? and considering how frequently they happen on the ground...

Actually they would be rather safer once you get figure out how to use three dimensions to move in rather then two. This can allow you space things out more, give more room for people to find a spot to merge into etc. No more lights either, just have one direction over the other direction. Need to turn at an intersection? Move to the space between the lanes, and then make the turn and use that space to get back up to speed and merge.

Still they are totally impractical for a society worried about limited energy resources. Lets take one of our largest wastes of energy and make it more wasteful to avoid an hour of travel time. It would be far more practical to put all cars in a city on a grid that controls all of them from a central location to reduce travel time, would be far less wasteful as well.

That said there is a "flying car" for every field. Weapons have the EMP, Commercial Airlines have supersonic flight (yeah that one actually happed but turned out to be impractical and not all that popular). Space has manned exploration, and space tourism, which it turns out might just be a total pipe dream. They all are completely impractical at our current level of understanding, and become more impractical as time goes by. Yet will still cling to the idea that someday we will all take our flying car to the space port and hop a shuttle to mars. Probably not going to be how the future looks.

 

[wewontdie11]

there is a design flaw with the hover car.
what if you run out of fuel?

Parachutes. Lots of parachutes.

but what about the car flying into the ground

It's a risk I'd be willing to take. Hell ground travel is a lot more dangerous than air travel for the most part anyway.

 

[manaman]

I would not cut off my foot for the flying car. I am that selfish.

Plus, I think it would be cooler if we were all flying these instead of flying cars:

I never knew it before today but I need a rocket powered helicopter.

 

[DazZ.]

Id love a flying car. Id be fine with the foot aswell.
Not so sure about the genital fiddling however.

I <3 Clerks.

 

[cheesecake123]

there is a design flaw with the hover car.
what if you run out of fuel?

Parachutes. Lots of parachutes.

but what about the car flying into the ground

It's a risk I'd be willing to take. Hell ground travel is a lot more dangerous than air travel for the most part anyway.

well that is a good point but i cant stop thinking about going for a walk in the park and then a car lands on you.

 

[Calobi]

there is a design flaw with the hover car.
what if you run out of fuel?

Parachutes. Lots of parachutes.

but what about the car flying into the ground

It's a risk I'd be willing to take. Hell ground travel is a lot more dangerous than air travel for the most part anyway.

I'd imagine that's because of the sheer number of people that drive rather than fly; plus the types of people who can drive (Almost anyone) versus those that can fly (Only trained professionals).

 

[letsnoobtehpwns]

That video was EPIC!

 

[wewontdie11]

there is a design flaw with the hover car.
what if you run out of fuel?

Parachutes. Lots of parachutes.

but what about the car flying into the ground

It's a risk I'd be willing to take. Hell ground travel is a lot more dangerous than air travel for the most part anyway.

I'd imagine that's because of the sheer number of people that drive rather than fly; plus the types of people who can drive (Almost anyone) versus those that can fly (Only trained professionals).

Ah but the best part about this scinareo is that you get to decide who can pilot the flying cars!

 

[ae86gamer]

That would be awesome. I've always wanted a flying car. Though I imagine that the world would be like 5th Element.

 

[Cowabungaa]

Well, I'll simply quote cracked.com [http://www.cracked.com/article_15655_5-awesome-sci-fi-inventions-that-would-actually-suck.html]:

And, once everybody has a flying car ... well, have you ever been driving to work in a city at around, oh, eight or nine in the morning? If so, you'll know exactly how bad traffic can get during rush hour. Now, imagine if there was not just one layer of cars, but there was layer after layer of flying metal death traps over top and below you.

Even worse, even a minor crash with another flying car could send both vehicles plummeting to the ground while you scream in terror. Imagine the poor guy on the ground, sitting there at a red light, as a flaming five car pile-up is hurdling down towards him from the sky.

So in short: no thanks.

 

[Player 2]

Why not just stick some wheels on a helicopter? That'll work, right?