4/30: Flying car

Undertoad · 04-30-2001, 10:51 AM

People have been thinking about the whole flying car problem for a while now. Here's another approach that people will say is "finally it". Built by a guy who saw that there were tiny little airports all over the place, but no rental cars at any of them. The "car" part can go up to 80 MPH.

Of course we all know that this has about 0.000000001% chance of becoming a consumer product.

richlevy · 04-30-2001, 11:02 PM

I had a coworker who was a pilot. I remember that the biggest expense for airplanes, other than the cost due to manufacturers exposure to lawsuits, was maintenance. Airplanes, even private ones, have some of the most stringent inspection and maintenance requirements I have ever heard of. This makes sense when you consider how much damage a faulty airplane can do versus a car. Even if you could buy a flying car, the cost to satisfy FAA regulations each year would be terrible.

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richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	I had a coworker who was a pilot. I remember that the biggest expense for airplanes, other than the cost due to manufacturers exposure to lawsuits, was maintenance. Airplanes, even private ones, have some of the most stringent inspection and maintenance requirements I have ever heard of. This makes sense when you consider how much damage a faulty airplane can do versus a car. Even if you could buy a flying car, the cost to satisfy FAA regulations each year would be terrible. __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

04-30-2001, 10:51 AM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	People have been thinking about the whole flying car problem for a while now. Here's another approach that people will say is "finally it". Built by a guy who saw that there were tiny little airports all over the place, but no rental cars at any of them. The "car" part can go up to 80 MPH. Of course we all know that this has about 0.000000001% chance of becoming a consumer product.

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