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.
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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.)