Not.

JJames23,

How quiet are these things going to be when they hover over my back yard? What sort of privacy will we all have, sitting on our properties.

One of the nice things about cars is that they are confined to an official right of way. Outside that right of way, there is minimal chance of a collision with a car. If any car breaks down, it sits on the side of the road waiting for a tow truck. If a Volantor breaks down, the good news is that they actually don't seem to fly.

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A fleet of autonomous vehicles flying around and over heavily populated areas - what could possibly go wrong?

http://julianh72.blogspot.com

Thankfully, the "uploader" has not made the video available where I am. I hope that applies to the idea as well.

...once they get the 'bugs' out. A couple of anecdotes... coming into an airport in Saskatchewan, a gust of wind nearly tossed the single engine plane. Another landing, the pilot overshot the runway and stopped about 100 yards from a rock outcrop. Another one, the autopilot 'kicked out' and we dropped 1000'. Another, the bushpilot tightened up his seat belt and I asked what was up; he said there was a line of thunderstorms down the lake. Never had a rougher flight. And yet another, the co-pilot madly cranked the landing gear down because there was no indicator that the gear was down... all could be accommodated by Uber?

Dik

I think the viability of any of the autonomous vehicles, flying or not, rests with the ability of manufacturers and operators to maintain liability insurance. Today, I can't imagine an established insurance conglomerate would assume the risk without charging prohibitive premiums.

Glad you are the first person ever to figure out that insurance of AVs needs a bit of a think. I'm sure the next few phone calls you get will be from potential AV manufacturers asking your advice.

Cheers

Greg Locock


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Thanks for you input, though I think somehow you left out a reference to 'Captain Obvious'.

"A fleet of autonomous vehicles flying around and over heavily populated areas - what could possibly go wrong?"

Nothing, of course! They will be perfect before they are allowed to fly, just like their autonomous cars...whoops, never mind.

There have been promises of "flying cars" just around the corner for 50 years. The problem is they are always lousy cars, lousy planes and way too expensive. So I'm not too concerned about autonomous flying cars hovering over my back yard any time soon.

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4 riders making the same trip? Oh, spare me :)

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3-D Printed Self-Driving Fusion-Powered Flying Cars financed by the Block Chain

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It is a helicopter.....

I think a real 'flying car' would be as useful as a boat that can be driven on land/ car that can be driven on water.

You mean like the DUKW tour buses that are rapidly building a worldwide reputation for exciting submarine excursions.

A.

This thread begs the question, was there ever any multi-mode vehicle that could perform any task half-decently and cost-effectively, excepting its own, narrow mission profile

"Schiefgehen wird, was schiefgehen kann" - das Murphygesetz

"Begs the question" = Uses a claim as evidence for itself.
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The better question is why do airports prevent taxis from using taxi ways? And then make passengers walk on jet ways?

Since 'car' descends from 'carriage' and these will carry people while flying, then they are flying cars. Since they are from Uber I expect they still won't be allowed on taxi ways.

"The better question is why do airports prevent taxis from using taxi ways? And then make passengers walk on jet ways?"

And why do we park in driveways and drive on parkways?

We're deep into the weeds now...

HotRod10,

You should visit Toronto, Canada sometime. The Don Valley Parkway is sometimes referred to as the Don Valley Parking Lot.

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JHG

drawoh... I worked in Toronto for about 30 years... half the time, used to commute from Oshawa to Toronto... know all about the Parking Lot... There used to be some really good examples of bridge types on the Don Valley... about a dozen different styles.

Dik

"You should visit Toronto, Canada sometime."

To experience parking on a parkway? Been there; done that; not interested in repeating the experience. There are several places I'd like to visit up there, though, including Toronto.

The saying doesn't always hold true the other way, either. We've got some driveways out here measured in miles.

Nearly lived in the Toronto airport in April of 2017. If the layovers would've been any longer, I could have taken that damned expensive train downtown or gone to the CN Tower to kill some time. I guess if there would have been an Uber flying car option, I might have tried it!

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

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Ohh, I want both of those!

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ornerynorsk: made 65 flights from Toronto to Regina and return, one year... know what it's like.

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Ah, thank-you. Always striving to improve my English.

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