Re:Waymo: Google's self-driving car company
by jugchock on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @05:42PM
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This seems to have been said in jest but the main thing keeping flying cars in sci-fi and out of the real world is the human element. Most people have a hard enough time driving in two dimensions. Adding a third would be chaos without the aid of our robot overlords.
Re:Waymo: Google's self-driving car company
by dragonwriter on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @07:36PM
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> This seems to have been said in jest but the main thing keeping flying cars in sci-fi and out of the real world is the human element.
I thought it was that winged flight makes for crappy cars and wingless, vectored thrust flight is horribly fuel hungry. (Sci-fi versions are usually wingless and either have magic drive systems or just ignore the fuel issue.)
... that's right, now you know what the driving force behind all those flying cars in sci-fi was. It's simply a way to separate the autonomous and old-style vehicles.