B) Making cars fly wasn’t the hard part. Flying vehicles have been a thing for a long time. The hard part is integrating them into a society that struggles enough with land and sea vehicles.
The hard part is integrating them into a society that struggles enough with land and sea vehicles.
Yup. As an ex flight instructor, people are generally really bad at flying even airplanes, which are specifically designed to be safe and easy to fly. Piloting a flying car would be even worse, so they're definitely gonna have to be 100% automated.
Next the infrastructure. Like how do you even begin? Roads, parking lots, and buildings aren't designed for landing at all. Something needs a complete overhaul to make that feasible. Not to mention obstacles and other hazards like light poles, power lines, birds, actual aircraft, weather, etc. Then there's safety of the people and property on the ground. How do you sufficiently protect that? Needs an absolutely unreal amount of redundancy is the only way I can imagine...
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u/KendrickBlack502 13h ago
It’s hard explaining things to stupid people.
A) Elon had no hand in inventing that
B) Making cars fly wasn’t the hard part. Flying vehicles have been a thing for a long time. The hard part is integrating them into a society that struggles enough with land and sea vehicles.