Flying car completes test flight between airports

Re:Flying car completes test flight between airports by SideburnsOfDoom on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @12:35PM (#27690577)

> general aviation has a better safety story

Quite likely _because_ , unlike driving, the vast majority of passenger-miles in aviation are not undertaken in small vehicles owned by the passenger/driver, or family thereof. i.e. because there aren't lots of "flying cars".

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Re:Flying car completes test flight between airports by nopzor on Thursday July 01, 2021 @12:03PM (#27700575)

i said general aviation, not commercial aviation; commercial aviation has a better safety story by _every_ metric, by a large margin. general aviation is a lot of small airplanes owned by the 'driver'; akin to 'flying cars' ;-)

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Re:Flying car completes test flight between airports by SideburnsOfDoom on Friday July 02, 2021 @04:39AM (#27709168)

Ah ok. Even so, Aviation is much more heavily regulated - compare getting a licence to drive a VW to getting a licence to fly a Cessna. And likely to stay that way, for these safety reasons.

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