Flying Cars

[TVC]

Anybody who knows anything about the regulations and restrictions around flying will know that this is a non starter in the UK, plus if you owned one, which insurer would go anywhere near it?

 

[Drago]

Another slight problem. Unless you've a convenient runway outside your house, and another at whatever destination you happen to be heading to, then you're going to have problems.

At a time when the planet is groaning with pain at the way we are polluting it and ravaging it for resources, it seems painfully inappropriate to be developing stuff like this.

 

[Tin Pot]

The tx-f is supposed to be VTOL.

I don't know the regulations on LSAs looks like it was a new category created in 2011 to make things easier.

I don't think regulations will stand in the way of progress, but I'm guessing what's looking like a £250000 carcopter might.

Who knows it might even revitalise the car industry, the first cars probably cost stupid money too.

 

[DaveReading]

The tx-f is supposed to be VTOL.

I don't know the regulations on LSAs looks like it was a new category created in 2011 to make things easier.

But it doesn't remotely correspond to the LSA criteria. For a start, it will have 1500 hp of installed power (a typical LSA has less than 100 hp).

 

[Cycleops]

Implications for cyclists? You’ll need another mirror pointing skyward to check for low flying cars.

 

[srw]

Anybody who knows anything about the regulations and restrictions around flying will know that this is a non starter in the UK, plus if you owned one, which insurer would go anywhere near it?

It will be, at best, a rich person's toy. And given the likely pricetag the implications for cyclists are completely zero.

 

[Globalti]

Why do you think the government is turning our most congested motorways into smart motorways?

It's so that the really congested bits can be given even greater capacity when completely autonomous cars appear in a few years. My VW can already follow the car in front using radar although the technology needs more work as it's a bit jerky because it can't anticipate by seeing the traffic in front of the car ahead. Smart technology will soon link my car to the environment and you'll see long lines of cars only a couple of feet apart with drivers asleep at the wheel (nothing new then).

Google truck platooning to see how it will work. Of course that's for the open highway but it shows how we will join and leave smart motorways.

 

[DaveReading]

Why do you think the government is turning our most congested motorways into smart motorways?

It's so that the really congested bits can be given even greater capacity when completely autonomous cars appear in a few years.

FTFY.

 

[Milkfloat]

Every year for the past 30 or 40 years a flying car has been promised for 'next year'. It never happens and won't for a long time. When they have truly autonomous long distance drones sorted then flying passengers will be the next logical step - but the technology and regulations are not ready yet.

 

[marzjennings]

Every year for the past 30 or 40 years a flying car has been promised for 'next year'. It never happens and won't for a long time. When they have truly autonomous long distance drones sorted then flying passengers will be the next logical step - but the technology and regulations are not ready yet.

Some cities are planning to have automated flying taxis running by 2020, so far LA, Dallas and Dubai...

Uber's flying taxis will be small, electric aircraft that take off and land vertically, or VTOLs, with zero emissions and quiet enough to operate in cities. ... Uber, which has partnered with the Dubai government, expects to conduct passenger flights as part of the World Expo 2020 in Dubai.

Plus Amazon will have their package delivery drones running as soon as they can. The skies in a few years ( I think about 10 years) will be cluttered with automated traffic.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

I love flying but am secretly hoping that flying cars stay as the playthings of a few wealthy people as there would never be a quiet, peaceful place left if everyone had one.

 

[Drago]

If i ever get a flying car I'll have it painted in WWII RAF livery.

 

[DaveReading]

Flying cars are great, as long as you remember where you've left the wings and the tail.

 

[Drago]

And the prop!

 

[Accy cyclist]

They had flying cars in the early 1960's.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8m9Z010pM4