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What a terrible article. Trying to instill FOMO just because the Chinese are coming for it!!!!, despite the technology being destined to be exclusively used for rich people's toys.
"This brave new world of personal transport is acting as a great leveller," said aviation consultant Steve Wright.
Compared to cars: Energy consumption is much higher. Physical space use is higher. Material use is higher. Steering difficulty is higher. Insurance rates are going to be much higher. (...)
Trying to instill FOMO just because the Chinese are coming for it!!!
Take a look at the posts OP makes โ they seem obsessed with posting negative articles about China.
Take a look at the posts OP makes โ they seem obsessed with posting negative articles about China.
I have absolutely no interest of posting negative articles on China or any country, company or person. Some friends of mine are Chinese, and they largely support these posts, just fyi.
I have chinese friends too, and they think your posts suck
You're basically making the "I have black friends so I can't be racist" argument. Your post history is like 90% articles like these:
Like, this is not a normal amount of articles about China. This feels like an obsession. If I was posting a similar amount of pro-China articles, I'd rightfully be called a shill.
Thank you for your opinion. Please feel free to also comment on the articles' contents.
Flying cars are the stuff politicans love, because they do not have to change anything about car centric infrastructure at all, do not have to buitl public transport and only the rich can afford them. We call the helicopters today.
Germany's Minister of Infrastructure just invested 150Million โฌ into a flying taxi company. Its just helicopters.
Career politicians tend to be rich themselves, they can't even imagine someone being unable to afford a flying car.
What I find really disturbing about this is the fact that so many people fall for this scam.
They successfully unloaded their failed company on some greater fool. These things will never be viable for anything other than being rich people toys.
China is the best chance for it to succeed though. It would be far more expensive to gain regulatory approval across dozens of western countries than to just bribe a bunch of CCP regulators and gain domestic access to millions of millionaires in one of the largest countries on Earth.
But after a few of those fall from the sky, bribes won't help any more.
They're not even great toys though.
But you can use it to show off to your "friends", so what makes it worthwhile to them.
A "flying car" is just a small, cheap plane/helicopter/quadcopter
You forgot the crucial aspect of the flying car concept. Privately owned flying cars are flown by unqualified idiots instead of qualified pilots and get basically no maintenance of safety inspections compared to planes and helicopters.
We've had viable "flying cars" since the 70s. We call them helicopters.
Unfortunately for the futurists, there is a major floor with flying cars, and that's the failure mode. If a car breaks down, it stops. If 2 cars crash, they come to a stop, generally in the road. If a helicopter breaks down, it will have a very bad time, even in the best case. If 2 helicopters crash, then both will almost certainly plummet to their doom, as well as risking those below them.
Because of this, the regulations are a lot stricter on flying cars. This makes them a lot less practical or economically viable. Any other variant will run into the same limitations.
If 2 helicopters crash, then both will almost certainly plummet to their doom, as well as risking those below them.
So, it's about time to discuss mandatory wearing of helmets for everybody outside of a house.
Would be definitely at fault if killed by being hit from a flying car dropping out of the sky because he's wearing all black and no high-visibility jacket.
At least they bought the tech this time instead of just copying it. Shame for us though
The Chinese have copied car-building techniques through the JVs Western companies established in China. However, the Chinese have also been heavily funding research into batteries and electric cars for decades. So, to a much larger degree the electric bits are actually their own inventions.