>The AirCar is spreading its wings in the sky over the Slovakian capital Bratislava.
>The dual-mode vehicle has already completed more than 70 hours of test flights, 200 take-offs and landings, and makes tight 45-degree turns.
>Its wings are fully retractable and it is currently equipped with a 160 horsepower BMW engine, a fixed propeller and a ballistic parachute.
>Today, Klein Vision, the company that manufactures it, announced that the Slovak transport authority has issued it with a certificate of airworthiness in accordance with European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) standards.
>The current prototype has a range of 500 kilometres and requires 28 litres of fuel.
>The company is already working on its next prototype, which will have a range of 1 000 kilometres (621 miles) and fly at 300 kilometres per hour.
This is the *whole* article… I wrote longer shit posts.
Flying cars are the epitome of quack mobility “inventions”. The people who came up with these essentially just combined all the worst aspects of cars and planes into one. Just like the Loop combined all the worst aspects of cars and subways, or how Parallel Systems combined all the worst aspects of cars and trains.
Why does everyone keep trying to reinvent the wheel? The solution to traffic problems isn’t to take working technologies and make them into worse cars, or to make space for more cars (just look at how in the US, traffic congestion gets worse every time you add more lanes to inner city highways, it’s called induced demand), it’s to get them off the road entirely. Yes, even the electric ones.
The problem with these people is that they keep reinventing the wheel where doing so isn’t necessary. There is no point in building flying cars for long range transportation. We already have the technology for that, it’s called a train. There’s no need to build something like the Loop, we already have that technology, we call them the subway, the train, and the bus. We also have short range transportations in the shape of bikes (Which can easily cover medium distances too, mind you)
There’s just no need for this ridiculous technology.
I swear we hear about this every year
I dont even trust drivers in normal cars, flying ones? Hell nah.
This will never work in civilized country. Imagine this shit flying over your house during the night. And we still have car crashes, what will happen with one in the air?
That’s one way to fix Slovakia’s shit roads, just have no need for them.
Cool, but what’s the intended purpose of such a vehicle?
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It’s a plane..
>The AirCar is spreading its wings in the sky over the Slovakian capital Bratislava.
>The dual-mode vehicle has already completed more than 70 hours of test flights, 200 take-offs and landings, and makes tight 45-degree turns.
>Its wings are fully retractable and it is currently equipped with a 160 horsepower BMW engine, a fixed propeller and a ballistic parachute.
>Today, Klein Vision, the company that manufactures it, announced that the Slovak transport authority has issued it with a certificate of airworthiness in accordance with European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) standards.
>The current prototype has a range of 500 kilometres and requires 28 litres of fuel.
>The company is already working on its next prototype, which will have a range of 1 000 kilometres (621 miles) and fly at 300 kilometres per hour.
This is the *whole* article… I wrote longer shit posts.
Flying cars are the epitome of quack mobility “inventions”. The people who came up with these essentially just combined all the worst aspects of cars and planes into one. Just like the Loop combined all the worst aspects of cars and subways, or how Parallel Systems combined all the worst aspects of cars and trains.
Why does everyone keep trying to reinvent the wheel? The solution to traffic problems isn’t to take working technologies and make them into worse cars, or to make space for more cars (just look at how in the US, traffic congestion gets worse every time you add more lanes to inner city highways, it’s called induced demand), it’s to get them off the road entirely. Yes, even the electric ones.
The problem with these people is that they keep reinventing the wheel where doing so isn’t necessary. There is no point in building flying cars for long range transportation. We already have the technology for that, it’s called a train. There’s no need to build something like the Loop, we already have that technology, we call them the subway, the train, and the bus. We also have short range transportations in the shape of bikes (Which can easily cover medium distances too, mind you)
There’s just no need for this ridiculous technology.
I swear we hear about this every year
I dont even trust drivers in normal cars, flying ones? Hell nah.
This will never work in civilized country. Imagine this shit flying over your house during the night. And we still have car crashes, what will happen with one in the air?
That’s one way to fix Slovakia’s shit roads, just have no need for them.
Cool, but what’s the intended purpose of such a vehicle?