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Interest in flying cars is coming back

Imagine having to defend buildings from attack from flying car bombs.
The terrorists are salivating.
Why do flying car makers hate America?
 
As an ex-pilot with a fair amount of experience, I can think of nothing less desirable than everyone having a flying car in their garage, and moving the roadways and highways into the air. Not that I have anything against a flying car itself, it is just a novelty of private aviation. With the complexity of admistering the system as it is, the only way that the melee would be conceivably possible, would be if all of them were robotic, flown and guided by little HAL juniors. Current systems in major airlines have autopilot systems that are able to navigate and land automatically, but there is much more to flying than that.

There has even been talk about removing the pilots from the cockpits, but this has only been a nightmare dreamed up by some money hungry corporate types. I would not want to be in the cockpit of such a flying robot, much less a passenger. It would be equivalent to having the skies darkened by millions of mini-cruise missles.
 
Could you imagine the police chases that would evolve from having flying cars. Literally no barriers to movement. Could the police every successfully stop anyone?
 
Originally posted by: CPA
Could you imagine the police chases that would evolve from having flying cars. Literally no barriers to movement. Could the police every successfully stop anyone?
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If the police cars can mount a couple AIM-9s I should think so....
 
I think in the potential definitely exists to have millions of these operating by autopilot. Elevators used to have human operators btw.
 
Ah yes, because if there is any way to help decrease the danger that is the American morning commute, it would be to introduce a whole other dimension to people who seem to have trouble dealing with TWO. :roll:

Seriously, I can't see a real benefit to flying cars without taking away human control. And even then, it seems iffy.
 
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