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megopie , 12 days ago

the problem with flying cars is that most people can barely be trusted to operate a 60MPH vehicle in 2 dimensions, 100MPH vehicles in 3 dimensions is a recipe for a disaster. Pilots licenses are difficult to get for a very good reason.

We should be trying to get large personal vehicles out of cities and towns as much as practical, not introducing new types that are even more dangerous.

admiralteal , 12 days ago

The problem with flying cars is that it's doubling down on the same faux "freedom" ideal that the car lies about personifying.

Even setting aside the safety/technology concerns, if we actually could have flying cars, the result would rapidly be a society where you MUST have your flying car to function. We'd get the Jetsons and it would be horrible. People would be even more isolated ant antisocial in their lives. People would be even more dependent on big box megastore corporate overlords because local industry would be dead instantly.

And anyone who couldn't afford or didn't want to be in a flying car? Too fucking bad, because the sky congestion would still be real and the only way to avoid it would be to ensure everyone's points of conflict were WELL spread out. The faster a free-moving vehicle goes, the more space it needs clear around it to function safely, after all. They'd definitely adjust zoning and building codes to make sure the flying cars weren't running into each other, causing huge, massive sprawl. No city would be able to afford the infrastructure costs of the ever-expanding road system -- they already can't, after all -- so they'd do the logical thing and get rid of asphalt connection entirely. Fly or be offroad. And once those land connections were dead, nothing would inhibit the spread-cycle anymore.

Any way I imagine it it would be fucking horrible.

EldestMalk , 12 days ago

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