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Some downsides bikes have which flying cars would not: - No weather protection - Don't work (well, if at all) in snow, ice, heavy rains. - Limited (or zero)
by falcolas 4y ago
Some downsides bikes have which flying cars would not:
- No weather protection
- Don't work (well, if at all) in snow, ice, heavy rains.
- Limited (or zero) safety features, despite going fast enough to cause injuries and using the same infrastructure as cars
- Limited speed and range
- 2d congestion limits throughput
- socialismisok 4y agoWe have flying cars today, we call them helicopters, and there's millions of reasons why we don't have them in every house.
- falcolas 4y agoEquivocating a helicopter a flying car is akin to calling a Model T a Tesla with FSD. And those "millions" of reasons all boil down to R&D costs. Reliability, inspections, takeoff-to-landing autopilots (they exist - have existed for over a decade - for military helicopter drones), etc. are all cost issues which are slowly being worked on. The progress could be faster if it didn't rely on angel and startup-style investments and the associated NDAs and trade secrets, but I don't expect that to happen in today's political environment.