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You forgot the big one: Most small aircraft cannot fly in bad weather. If it's raining, windy, or even cloudy these things are going to be grounded if the pilo
by narrator 10y ago
You forgot the big one: Most small aircraft cannot fly in bad weather. If it's raining, windy, or even cloudy these things are going to be grounded if the pilot doesn't have an instrument rating.
- rileyteige 10y agoNot to mention icing conditions!
- SpikeDad 10y agoNot to mention how little skill that a big percentage of people have just driving cars. Can't even get people to follow the speed limit - fat chance you'd get them to follow aviation regulations. Most people in cars that make mistakes end up in a crash but don't die. Everyone in a portable flying device that makes a mistake will die.
- the_watcher 10y agoSure, but that's not a reason to just punt on trying to build a flying car. Larry Page has the money to invest both in stuff he thinks will change the world (which he does both independently and at Alphabet) as well as in things he just wants to exist.
- mtgx 10y agoThey can be automatically disabled for when there's bad weather.
- nibnib 10y agoThat rules out selling any in large parts of the world then.
- SpikeDad 10y agoHahaha. The function of my flying car is controlled by - Meteorology? Now that's funny. I have respect for meteorologist (heck - for me it was either that or computer science) but even today local forecasting is not reliable enough to base the functionality of devices upon.