Re:No Longer a Dream: Silicon Valley Takes on the Flying Car
by usrusr on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @04:23AM
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More damage for the occupants, but a box that falls out of the sky has a much lower chance of hitting something meaty than a box that moves fast in the same plane as all the others. The damage zone on the ground of a flying car would be point-shaped, that of a rolling car is line-shaped. Shifting risk from bystander to occupant, that's something I could get behind.
But that's all just theory given the prototype depicted: with open blade horizontal rotors like that I could never think of those things as anything but killing machines. Even if accidents never happen, the mental image is just too powerful.
(This is just what I am always wondering when reading about flying cars)