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I say they will. Autopilot is so much easier in the air than in the street, especially if the system is created with that in mind. I would hate to have flying

I say they will. Autopilot is so much easier in the air than in the street, especially if the system is created with that in mind. I would hate to have flying cars with people behind the wheel. We would have cars falling from the sky by the minute. If car drivers are bad, flying cars would be so much worst. But if it becomes a mechanized system then it works. It's coming. I'm guessing 30 years. It won't be cheap.

no1youknowz 10y ago
I also say it will happen. 30 years is a lot different than today. By a long shot. We'll have ANI (artificial narrow intelligence) completed by then. It'll be able to drive a car and fly a drone PERFECTLY. So why not a flying car? We'll have Graphene solved and able to create mass quantities cheaply. Which means the weight problem will be solved. We'll have far better batteries than we do now. In addition, metallic hydrogen anyone? That alone may actually pave the way for country hopping. Who's to say, in 30 years there will be no cars on the road or planes in the sky. Travel would have been fully democratized. Just pull out your phone and uber/lyft/other yourself wherever you want to go. Oh and the final upside. No more TSA. That alone is priceless. ------- Plus up next, build a much stronger model for planet hopping. I think that's a worthwhile goal to aim for. Fancy a weekend trip to Mars? Hmm, in 2050?
- blacksmith_tb 10y ago
  Hmm, not sure about the security implications of many medium-sized flying vehicles, just forcing one to drop out of the sky in a crowded downtown would be pretty nasty. So the TSA may be replaced with some other kind of inspection regime (or surface to air missiles). As for weekends on Mars, we'll need your solved graphene to build a space elevator to get into orbit cheaply, but the travel time will presumably be months, any faster and you'd be a pancake inside the craft, either accelerating or decelerating.

no1youknowz 10y ago

I also say it will happen. 30 years is a lot different than today. By a long shot. We'll have ANI (artificial narrow intelligence) completed by then. It'll be able to drive a car and fly a drone PERFECTLY. So why not a flying car? We'll have Graphene solved and able to create mass quantities cheaply. Which means the weight problem will be solved. We'll have far better batteries than we do now. In addition, metallic hydrogen anyone? That alone may actually pave the way for country hopping. Who's to say, in 30 years there will be no cars on the road or planes in the sky. Travel would have been fully democratized. Just pull out your phone and uber/lyft/other yourself wherever you want to go. Oh and the final upside. No more TSA. That alone is priceless. ------- Plus up next, build a much stronger model for planet hopping. I think that's a worthwhile goal to aim for. Fancy a weekend trip to Mars? Hmm, in 2050?

blacksmith_tb 10y ago
Hmm, not sure about the security implications of many medium-sized flying vehicles, just forcing one to drop out of the sky in a crowded downtown would be pretty nasty. So the TSA may be replaced with some other kind of inspection regime (or surface to air missiles). As for weekends on Mars, we'll need your solved graphene to build a space elevator to get into orbit cheaply, but the travel time will presumably be months, any faster and you'd be a pancake inside the craft, either accelerating or decelerating.