Musk “it’s a flying car!”
Car just falls slowly and doesn’t fly anywhere
Musk “it’s a flying car!”
Car just falls slowly and doesn’t fly anywhere
Flying cars have been around for ages, they're called helicopters. They're loud, expensive and dangerous as every other idea for something equivalent is.
What do you do if the engine dies in your car? Put your hazards on and pull over. In your helicopter? Pray you can autorotate to a field.
Helicopters aren't cars. But actual flying cars have indeed existed for at least ten years. I'm too lazy to go find this segment I watched on the topic, but I remember seeing one.

here you go
At first I thought someone had done that to a SAAB which would have been appropriately hilarious
Did that thing really fly? The center of lift seems way off from the center of weight.
Is that the car-plane from The Man With The Golden Gun?
at least ten years
Close to a hundred years. Yes, I was surprised to discover this, too.
Of course there have been who knows how many subsequent attempts ever since.
Gyrocoptors. They're closer to a flying car, since if you can drive a car, you can legally fly a gyrocoptor in the US. Just remember to file flight plans, and watch out for power lines. The way you land the things is to kill the engine.
They've still got the same danger as helicopters. If something goes wrong, you can't glide and you'll likely just fall out of the sky.
You do glide. The rotor providing lift isn't connected to anything, the lift is provided by horizontal speed. You'd have to literally hit a building, a mountain, or power lines to crash the things. You don't need a pilots license to operate them, because you basically can't crash them and the entire aircraft weighs quite a bit less than a car.
Honestly the older ones with the wings from the 40s are probably less “kill you if something goes wrong” than anything today.
We've had actual flying cars too, though they were really just car shaped quadcopters and never made it to mass production because they sucked as transportation.
you upvoted this pic because... why though ?
I upvoted this pic because... truly don't know.
We are not the same
People dick riding musk should know he's a fucking Nazi.
People buying his cars should know they are enriching a fucking Nazi.
People should know, the only people that are impressed by Nazi shit are Nazis.
Can be nazi and also make impressive car
See bmw lol
A car that's way more expensive than it should be, can't be self-maintained by design, and absolutely lacks indicators from the factory? Pass
Is anyone really that excited to have cars crashing into your second story bedroom?
I feel like I should speak up, because I feel deeply betrayed.
We had established a solid timeline for moving forward with the project, and the current progress allows us to meet all prerequisites comfortably
Despite our sincere expectations that we would now initiate our relationship, we find ourselves dumbfounded to have received such a curt and inconsiderate reply.
Be advised that we're considering all our options, including litigation and not leaving the basement.
Middling regards,
Betrayed Person
What happened?
Dude clean your phones camera lens, it’s super smudged and it’s making the screenshot all blurry
Loser rejected for eternity.
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