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Do you believe individuals will drive flying cars in the next 10 years? How about 20? 40? People were predicting we'd have flying cars for over 50 years now, wh
by fzeroracer 3y ago
Do you believe individuals will drive flying cars in the next 10 years? How about 20? 40? People were predicting we'd have flying cars for over 50 years now, why don't we have them yet?
- atleastoptimal 3y agoLand based cars -> flying cars is less reasonable of an extrapolation than current SOTA AI -> skilled human level AI. Flying cars already exist anyway, they're called helicopters.
- pdimitar 3y agoWhat you say is less reasonable looks like an assumption to me. What makes you think so?
- dekhn 3y agoFlying cars. You mean, like personal aircraft? That's already a thing. Or cars that can drive on a highway but also fly? Besides being impractical from an engineering standpoint, I don't think there's an actual market large enough to sustain the development and marketing costs.
- Groxx 3y agoWe can probably assume they didn't mean personal aircraft since that has been around since the dawn of flight, and hasn't gone away at any point along the way. It's rather different from a new tech entrant to an existing field.
- auxi 3y agoRegarding the size of the market, given a low enough energy price, the potential market size would be bigger. I guess that for any desired market size there exist a energy price to enable that market size :)