Society & Culture Flying Cars

[raskolnikov]

We've officially reached the Jetson Age.

https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp...r/news-story/3fd81b78aff184e1daf056904bb43853

 

[Bomberboyokay]

We've officially reached the Jetson Age.

https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp...r/news-story/3fd81b78aff184e1daf056904bb43853

Paywall

 

[raskolnikov]

Paywall

Try this one.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-12/uber-elevate-set-to-take-off-in-australia/11199466

 

[SHAKESPEARE]

Oh dear

 

[perthblue]

those arent cars they look like flying piles of shit.

just what we need, people who cant drive on land suddenly flying above our heads

 

[M Malice]

Coming to your locality soon, Uber eats dropping from the sky.

I'll be impressed when The Star Trek Replicator is up and about-

 

[SHAKESPEARE]

Clickbait for nuffs.

This shit will never happen

 

[Kurve]

If we built up on columns and lived more like the Jetsons that would be one way of helping to regenerate the earth. Although with climate change we're more likely to go underground.

 

[M Malice]

Maybe we should go off planet.

 

[Plugger35]

Clickbait for nuffs.

This **** will never happen

If it does ever happen it will only take a few of these Uber Air planes/choppers to crash and kill people before it gets knocked on the head.

I'm assuming they will be flown by proper pilots and not just any old dingbat like Uber cars but even then I can still see it being an absolute disaster.

 

[Kurve]

If it does ever happen it will only take a few of these Uber Air planes/choppers to crash and kill people before it gets knocked on the head.

I'm assuming they will be flown by proper pilots and not just any old dingbat like Uber cars but even then I can still it being an absolute disaster.

The plan is for them to be operated autonomously, without a pilot. Like driverless cars.

 

[SHAKESPEARE]

The plan is for them to be operated autonomously, without a pilot. Like driverless cars.

 

[Plugger35]

The plan is for them to be operated autonomously, without a pilot. Like driverless cars.

Yeah I can see that working out well, I certainly wouldn't be too keen on getting into a plane or a chopper without a pilot, I'd rather get stuck in traffic.

 

[Kurve]

Yeah I can see that working out well, I certainly wouldn't be too keen on getting into a plane or a chopper without a pilot, I'd rather get stuck in traffic.

I'd have appreciated some sort of drone pod I could stick my kids in for a time out when they were little with nothing but a book and shoot them up into the backyard to hover for half an hour or so.

 

[La Dispute]

Yeah I can see that working out well, I certainly wouldn't be too keen on getting into a plane or a chopper without a pilot, I'd rather get stuck in traffic.

Kind of hard to say without some kind of trial, but I think there’s more far more scope for error with humans driving, as opposed to AI operating the helicopters driving.

Unfortunately it’s hard to plan for contingencies you don’t know exist.

 

[Plugger35]

Kind of hard to say without some kind of trial, but I think there’s more far more scope for error with humans driving, as opposed to AI operating the helicopters driving.

Unfortunately it’s hard to plan for contingencies you don’t know exist.

It's not just the aircraft themselves that could be a problem it's the increase in air traffic they will bring, the airspace around major airports is already crowded so when you add in Uber aircraft as well as drones which are becoming more common it could be a recipe for disaster.

People have this idea it will be like the Jetsons where people just whiz about in aircraft seamlessly without any problems but the reality is more complicated.

 

[Lethality]

We've officially reached the Jetson Age.

https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp...r/news-story/3fd81b78aff184e1daf056904bb43853

I wouldn't get in one of those things if they paid me.

 

[Procrastinator35]

It's not just the aircraft themselves that could be a problem it's the increase in air traffic they will bring, the airspace around major airports is already crowded so when you add in Uber aircraft as well as drones which are becoming more common it could be a recipe for disaster.

People have this idea it will be like the Jetsons where people just whiz about in aircraft seamlessly without any problems but the reality is more complicated.

Instead of road kill you'd have air-kill....Lucky pigs can't fly eh!...Oh, hang on a minute there.

 

[quotemokc]

Not sure how we will get flying cars if we are meant to be all switching over to electric cars.

 

[Procrastinator35]

Not sure how we will get flying cars if we are meant to be all switching over to electric cars.

I'm not sure those 2 things are mutually exclusive amigo.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Maybe we should go off planet.

More expensive than every other option.

 

[Bomberboyokay]