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Florida's governor says there is a new flying car, but it looks an awful lot like a plane (www.miamiherald.com)
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In a news conference loaded with “Back to the Future” and “The Jetsons” references, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Monday that Florida would become a national hub for testing ultralight electric aircraft, generally considered the next frontier of electric vehicles.

Although many people call them “flying cars,” without wheels or landing gear, they’re more like human-sized drones that can take off or land without a runway. The industry refers to them as electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, or eVTOLs.

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[–] [S] 3 points 2 months ago*

I think that's why it hasn't happened yet. Just imagining people who blow stop signs, or driving drunk, or whatever other shitty driving thing there is to do while in the air, over people's houses and schools. I think that's why they were waiting for autodrive, but autodriving hasn't proven to be all that great yet. It's nightmare fuel.

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