Technology Flying Cars Finally a Thing, Will Go on Sale in Six Months

[Husky_Khan]

AirCar - The Flying Car Passed Flight Tests. Next Stop: Driving a New Market

NITRA, Slovakia, Oct. 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- AirCar (V5) is the latest generation flying car that transforms from road vehicle into air vehicle in less than 3-minutes. Useful for leisure and self-driving journeys, and also as a commercial taxi service, the dual mode transformation vehicle can...

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Powered by a 140hp BMW engine the AirCar (V5) will be able to convert from car to plane mode in about three minutes, supposedly shifting from driving to flying mode at the click of a button!

 

[Typhonis]

Just what we need and we think drunk driving is bad.

 

[gral]

Just what we need and we think drunk driving is bad.

Don't worry, once people start discussing who will regulate flying cars and what are the requisites for driving(piloting?) one, that problem will go away - no one will be able to have a flying car.

 

[ATP]

I think,that some was produced 50 or 60 years ago.

 

[gral]

I think,that some was produced 50 or 60 years ago.

There have been prototypes, yes.

 

[Yinko]

Don't worry, once people start discussing who will regulate flying cars and what are the requisites for driving(piloting?) one, that problem will go away - no one will be able to have a flying car.

Yeah, this is hardly the first time. I remember reading about a similar car in Popular Mechanics during the 90's (the actual issue might have been from the late 80's to the very early 90's, I don't know), where a guy had made a flying car in his garage. The issue was never the technology, it was that you had to be both a driver and a pilot to use them. The only way these are viable is if they heavily use AI to fix the issues.

 

[Laskar]

AirCar - The Flying Car Passed Flight Tests. Next Stop: Driving a New Market

NITRA, Slovakia, Oct. 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- AirCar (V5) is the latest generation flying car that transforms from road vehicle into air vehicle in less than 3-minutes. Useful for leisure and self-driving journeys, and also as a commercial taxi service, the dual mode transformation vehicle can...

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Powered by a 140hp BMW engine the AirCar (V5) will be able to convert from car to plane mode in about three minutes, supposedly shifting from driving to flying mode at the click of a button!

Until you can make a plane with the reliability, utility, go-anywheratility, and general flying brick-itude of a DC-77 Pelican, there's no way that a flying car is going to be viable. Sure, it can transform from a car to a plane in three minutes, but it'll still take you an hour to do the pre-flight inspection and file a flight plan.

If you want to go somewhere, you hop in your car and go. If you want to fly somewhere, you need to stop, calculate the fuel load, check your path for inclement weather, calculate how much time prevailing winds will add to your journey, and make sure that all of the sensors that tell you where your plane is and how fast it is going and a dozen other useful things are working. Then you contact the flight tower and wait for clearance to take off. If you've taken your flying car anywhere, you also have to check to see if door-dings have compromised the structural integrity of your plane.

These inventors should quit trying to make cars that can fly and planes that can reach highway speeds, and figure out how to make flying as painless as driving.