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Re:Ask HN: What is your fav “I can't believe in 2022 this st... by falcolas on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @11:17AM (#33331732)
Some downsides bikes have which flying cars would not:

- No weather protection

- Don't work (well, if at all) in snow, ice, heavy rains.

- Limited (or zero) safety features, despite going fast enough to cause injuries and using the same infrastructure as cars

- Limited speed and range

- 2d congestion limits throughput

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Re:Ask HN: What is your fav “I can't believe in 2022 this st... by socialismisok on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @11:46AM (#33332164)
We have flying cars today, we call them helicopters, and there's millions of reasons why we don't have them in every house.
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Re:Ask HN: What is your fav “I can't believe in 2022 this st... by falcolas on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @11:57AM (#33332333)
Equivocating a helicopter a flying car is akin to calling a Model T a Tesla with FSD.

And those "millions" of reasons all boil down to R&D costs. Reliability, inspections, takeoff-to-landing autopilots (they exist - have existed for over a decade - for military helicopter drones), etc. are all cost issues which are slowly being worked on.

The progress could be faster if it didn't rely on angel and startup-style investments and the associated NDAs and trade secrets, but I don't expect that to happen in today's political environment.

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