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You re talking about top speeds which have incremental improvemetns, but people's popular choices are not roadsters, but rather bulky and slow SUVs. And if we

You re talking about top speeds which have incremental improvemetns, but people's popular choices are not roadsters, but rather bulky and slow SUVs. And if we re talking about flying cars, we don't know the demand they 'd have, but even now people don't move outside of crowded cities just to avoid congestion. > efficiency of said planes And yet planes are slower and smaller. Sure, i m talking about what travelers want. Turns out people arent willing to pay extra for faster or bigger planes like the concorde or A380, and airlines adapted

ClumsyPilot 6y ago
> "slow SUVs" Thats a meaningless statement without numbers. How many people are buying SUVs? I live im Britain, there are hardly any SUV's, most of the world is not living in US. A roadster is not just a faster car, its tiny, useless and expensive to boot. It can't travel a mile down a road in Russia without getting stuck. It still can't (legally) exceed the speed limit. It's utility advantage over a compact is zero. If people bought roadsters, that still has no relevance to flying cars. People live in cities because that's where the well paid jobs are. Many mouve out when they hit pention. It's a completely separate set of tradeoffs that has nothing to do with the subject The whole argument about flying cars makes no sense. > people arent willing to pay extra for faster or bigger planes Its the other way round - people pay extra for smaller planes that take them directly to their destination, as opposed to taking a big plane and then change flights in a spoke and hub model. Also planes are not any slower, speeds of all subsonic planes have been very consistent.
- cblconfederate 6y ago
  Well, if there was demand for faster cars there would be demand for faster roads. Frankly, if people really had an appetite to live in futuristic cities, they might move to newly built cities in Asia/ME, but it's not really happening. The top reason to fly is still "leasure purposes", which hardly sounds urgent and explains why people are happy with direct but slow flights. I actually think people's priorities are different and the futurism of the past did not prove to be a good predictor for the future. A major shift is of course the end of the Cold war, which cooled down innovation in general, but it s still curious why digital tech did so much better.

ClumsyPilot 6y ago

> "slow SUVs" Thats a meaningless statement without numbers. How many people are buying SUVs? I live im Britain, there are hardly any SUV's, most of the world is not living in US. A roadster is not just a faster car, its tiny, useless and expensive to boot. It can't travel a mile down a road in Russia without getting stuck. It still can't (legally) exceed the speed limit. It's utility advantage over a compact is zero. If people bought roadsters, that still has no relevance to flying cars. People live in cities because that's where the well paid jobs are. Many mouve out when they hit pention. It's a completely separate set of tradeoffs that has nothing to do with the subject The whole argument about flying cars makes no sense. > people arent willing to pay extra for faster or bigger planes Its the other way round - people pay extra for smaller planes that take them directly to their destination, as opposed to taking a big plane and then change flights in a spoke and hub model. Also planes are not any slower, speeds of all subsonic planes have been very consistent.

cblconfederate 6y ago
Well, if there was demand for faster cars there would be demand for faster roads. Frankly, if people really had an appetite to live in futuristic cities, they might move to newly built cities in Asia/ME, but it's not really happening. The top reason to fly is still "leasure purposes", which hardly sounds urgent and explains why people are happy with direct but slow flights. I actually think people's priorities are different and the futurism of the past did not prove to be a good predictor for the future. A major shift is of course the end of the Cold war, which cooled down innovation in general, but it s still curious why digital tech did so much better.