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yuiyoshida

(41,862 posts) Sun Jun 21, 2015, 11:21 PM Jun 2015

That Flying Car you been waiting for?

http://www.terrafugia.com/tf-x

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That Flying Car you been waiting for? (Original Post) yuiyoshida Jun 2015 OP

Nope, The one I've been waiting for uses anti-gravity. Spitfire of ATJ Jun 2015 #1

In the meantime, we'll still have to do it the old-fashioned way rocktivity Jun 2015 #2

Amazing what they can build out of pixels Android3.14 Jun 2015 #3

Another tease liberal N proud Jun 2015 #4

Until the build one and it works as advetised... JHB Jun 2015 #5

Flying cars? Are we nuts? brush Jun 2015 #6

I'll take two please! Egnever Jun 2015 #7

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)

1. Nope, The one I've been waiting for uses anti-gravity.

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Mon Jun 22, 2015, 01:51 AM

Jun 2015

rocktivity

(44,577 posts)

2. In the meantime, we'll still have to do it the old-fashioned way

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Mon Jun 22, 2015, 02:14 AM

Jun 2015

The driver claimed she was rear-ended -- since this happened near an airport, it must have been a runaway jet...

rocktivity

Android3.14

(5,402 posts)

3. Amazing what they can build out of pixels

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Mon Jun 22, 2015, 07:59 AM

Jun 2015

...and Monopoly money.

liberal N proud

(60,346 posts)

4. Another tease

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Mon Jun 22, 2015, 08:08 AM

Jun 2015

JHB

(37,162 posts)

5. Until the build one and it works as advetised...

Reply to yuiyoshida (Original post)

Mon Jun 22, 2015, 08:18 AM

Jun 2015

...it's just CGI.

brush

(53,876 posts)

6. Flying cars? Are we nuts?

Reply to yuiyoshida (Original post)

Mon Jun 22, 2015, 12:03 PM

Jun 2015

Adding 1000-fold to the decisions drivers have to make by adding a third dimension of navigable space (not just left or right/backward or forward but up and down and all diagonal angles , not to mention the possibility of plummeting to the ground at a loss of power or a collision — we should hope it never happens.

Nice in theory but there are too many drunks, roid-ragers, reckless idiots, non-attentive/take driving for granted operators, texters/cell phone users, etc. out there for flying car dreams to be nothing more than experimental exercises.

Actual pilots, and that's what we'd all have to become to use on of these, have to go through hours and hours of training with an instructor before they qualify to solo.

I may be entering "get off my lawn" territory but I don't particularly want to be up in the air with the possibility of one of the aforementioned offenders coming at me from any of 360 degrees.

Egnever

(21,506 posts)

7. I'll take two please!

Reply to yuiyoshida (Original post)

Tue Jun 23, 2015, 02:37 AM

Jun 2015

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