BlackFly: The flying car anyone can drive

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BlackFly: The flying car anyone can drive - YouTube
I know that there will be accidents, but l have to admit that l want one.

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  • Here's as close as your ever going to get: https://shop.opener.aero/

    Enjoy your ride. :-)
  • Novel design. I wonder what it's range is.
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    • I "think" this is the same as I saw in another video. If I remember correctly, the range is 25 miles and top speed is about 68 MPH.

      Flying vehicles like this would solve so many issues with infrastructure like roads and bridges. Think if all (or some of) the money and real estate devoted to roads and bridges could be spent on other things.
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  • It's not a car. It doesn't even have wheels. A jumbo jet is more of a car than this thing.

    It looks like fun, though.
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  • From "The Verge":



    Seems to be a 'one seater' - which is good because who in their right mind would be a passenger???
  • Does it come in black?
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    • Not as black as the odious shadow you cast upon the world.
  • That's nice, as is the link going to related products. Reminds me off all of the Self promotion and spammy posts l keep deleting.



    True, more of an release the clamps, fold out and fly around the place with your friends, while a drone tags alone and records it, for a one hour doc, on Youtube?

    No, it comes in pink.

    I take it that the lake swim had no effect?

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    • I am NOT an affiliate. :-)

      Quite the opposite. I am flush with renewed vigor.

      Heading out to the lake, now. The latest addition to the dock. Must protect my delicate skin. Smooth as a baby's ass, even after all of these years. lol



      Cheers.
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  • at what point does it stop being a car and just become a plane ..or a helicopter .. or a flying boat that can land on water or grass
  • I don't care l still want one.

    Maaaaa!

    Way too much info, there, l may have to tie myself down and go and watch that hidious DC comic music video again.

    That or that puppy video?

  • Here is the real Flying Car that you might actually be able buy in 2019.

    https://www.cntraveler.com/story/you...ng-car-in-2019
  • Nonsense Claude, you would get a sexy female voice saying, "you have 30 seconds of flight time left, you are about to die".

    Pity they weren't nuclear powered?

  • Air accidents are the worse... People seldom survive. That's least of problem.. Someone'll find an answer. Thank you!
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    • More people die in car accidents than Plane Crashes. Thats far worse then the number of Air Accidents ! Sure someone will find the answer as soon as we stop car related deaths. Not happening anytime soon.
  • So all the morons who infest the roads and highways of the world are now going to infest the air.

    If there's a more stupid idea going around, I've yet to see it..
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    • In city environments they would be autonomous. Because air space has multiple dimensions, unlike roads which are two dimensional which creates more complicated traffic circumstances, I believe it's actually easier to program them than it is for self driving cars.

      NASA and Uber have already joined together to create "air traffic control" for autonomous "flying taxis".
      https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/nasa...-sky-1.3921037
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    • Have you read the collective works of Claude Whitacre?
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  • We are working on a uber version as we speak, and are exploring sensors in the ground giving a virtual road type thing, a bit like the freeway in Back to the Future 2, but without hovering road signs.

    I would say that initially it will be the wild west or almost anything goes, until regulation comes in.

    Police manned drones, lol, should make an interesting future.

    But yeah, some dummy flipping this and headed towards the ground at high speed is the biggest concearn l have, so software and emergency reversing of the rotors needs to be in place.

  • 15 Coolest Machines That Makes you Fly - YouTube
    The flying hammock, scary.

    Although the one before that, is pretty cool, eventhough it doesn't last long.


    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44881678



  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...&v=reR2AZavTE0

    He is going to mass produce this, but with a few hours charging time for a measly 15, 20 minutes flying time, not sure how popular it will be.

    That is the Achilles heel with these devices, severely restricted flying times.

    Which will most likely keep these devices in the rich/toy category, much like combustion engines were initially.


  • The main problems I see are the sound they make. Nobody is ever going to land one of these in their driveway, if they live in the suburbs.

    And Elon Musk was on Joe Rogan talking about these flying cars. And he said that the main problem he saw was that they can't glide. If the propellers stop, you drop like a rock.

    Helicopters blades start spinning in reverse (if they motor dies) and still provide lift. So you will land safely.

    But they sure loo like fun.
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    • As part of your 'continuing education,' allow me to inform you that they now manufacture aircraft with emergency parachutes. Imagine the potential for other iterations of that technology. :-)
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    • Not sure about the noise, l have only seen drone toys being flown and they wearn't any noisier than a hairdryer.

      Yeah, drop like rocks, but as Frank said parachutes would work.

      Or emergency blades that would kick in and allow a survivable landing, but that obviously would require a closed system and another battery.

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    • TOP 6 REAL FLYING CARS COMING BEFORE 2020 - YouTube
      First one frickin cool.

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    • Hand dryers in toilet blocks perhaps?

      If l was Claude, l would have been offended, by that fact.



      True, Crypto is fungus.

      True, we need a good name for these things, People Drone is all l got?

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    • Mega Factory for Flying Cars - YouTube
  • I have been looking at this one for years. Not quite a car I guess...


    A Plane You Can Park in the Garage: The ICON A5 - YouTube
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    • Yes, not that crazy about the plane/car idea, more into the James Bond, Blowfeilt type flying craft that you can park in your back yard, with the comfy interior, cool computer display and sexy female computer voice.

      Although Hal out of 2001, would work also.

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