Ohh noooo. If everyone will fly his own car, I will lose my job ^^

Hahah, it has TF emblazoned on the side. *points* :)

Haha, I didn't catch that the first time, that's awesome. :)

I'm terrified of this. People can't drive on the ground, just imagine the air D=

Precisely. It's a wonderful technology in theory, but it would have to be severely.. SEVERELY regulated/restricted in every aspect of it's existance and never put into the hands of MASS Consumerism.

This is what carriage drivers said about cars..

100 years later, and a few million deaths later, driving is almost a right.

Yes but when a Car breaks down it rolls to a stop.. when a flying car breaks down.. it lands in your living room xD the consequences are far graver

Actually I think it uses an autopilot for flight-stuff, for precisely that reason.

I don't think Any Auto-Pilot can completely compensate for "Something important just stopped working" >..>

True, but anything can succumb to the same limitations. Take planes for example: If something doesn't work then it doesn't work and the plane crashes, and they're a lot bigger (and carry more fuel than) a flying car.

if a plane has troubles they'res generally a number of reduncy's and 2 very highly trained pilots behind the "Flightstick"

I would never expect general consumers to ever wield the responsibility of flight with the same respect. But that's just me... complete lack of faith in humanity and all D:

This plane uses a parachute for that situation:
http://www.skywalkervtol.com/specifications.html

Multiple redundancy GPS would be backed up by onboard maps with dead reckoning, NDB beacons (already in use today by pilots around the world). I would think the design should also include a whole aircraft parachute. Yes these exist and they have saved plenty lives already! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX3n2baYjys

Except, a car and a carriage is still the exact same vehicle, but with different 'engine' ;)

The idea is that the computer does the flying, or assists and prevents you from doing something stupid. This is all workable with current technology. The flying machine, whatever form it may take would be connected via radio/sattelite to a centralized traffic control center, or maybe smaller ones in a cell pattern across the country. That would tell the computer which virtual "skyway" it would need to stay in to reach its destination. The vehicles would probably also share data among each other, transferring its own speed, heading and altitude to others around it and each machine would keep a set distance form any other craft or change course, speed or altitude to avoid any collisions.

Finally it would also have on board maps to mesh with its GPS that would also include buildings, terrain and landmark data. It would simply not allow you to fly into a building or mountainside because it would know it was there on the map based on your heading and altitude even if the object was obscured in fog or clouds. Between GPS, a good dead reckoning system and ground radio beacons (which are already used by private pilots to navigate BTW -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-d.....ional_beacon). All this would combine to handle any possibility of problems with GPS signal interference. The traffic control system would also keep the computer aware of storms, turbulence and other weather phenomena and tell it what the safest altitude to fly at was and prevent you from doing something stupid like flying into a thunderstorm. In the case of an unresponsive pilot or other serious problem, the craft could be remotely flown by someone on the ground to land at a hospital, police station or other safe location should there be an emergency or issue aboard.

Its a complex system, but its something we have the wherewithal to work out with todays techonology.

Okay, I LIKE that.

Also, I note that the car does the flying, not the person in the driver's seat. This means they could set up specific launch/land areas, flight paths, and so on to keep them from hitting each other. You wouldn't be able to just fly to anywhere in town, you'd have to drive. But for longer trips, flying from launch/land point to launch/land point would be the way to go.

Wellll.....if you then realize how much paperwork it'd take to be able to fly such a thing just about anywhere, not to mention that with current air law it'd be practically impossible to legally fly it in most countries unless you have the right license and meet maaany requirements. (All the controlled space and minimal altitude over urban areas regulations, etc etc.)

The minute flying cars become a thing, I am getting a tank. From what I see on the roads on my drive to work, every yahoo is going to think he/she is the Red Baron and act accordingly. Hence why I want a tank, so when the inevitable happens, the idiots bounce off the armor and don't bother me.

1 megawatt, right... and it doesn't explain how do you get in the car hah.

Teleportation!

(is a megawatt so hard to believe? your computer's power supply is nearly 1 megawatt)

Its cool, but I think the big thing is that anything that both flies and drives will do neither very well. The main issue with this will be cargo space and range both in the air and on the ground.

I have a design in my head for something I feel is way better, but it doesn't drive at all. Its meant to be a personal craft, with computer assisted flying so any joe can fly it, but unlike this car it can land just about anywhere. Not just on a street or a runway, but in a field, mountain side, or with pontoons even on water. It would be VTOL of course assuming the take off system I had in mind works. Its airspeed would be closer to that of a passenger jet and its The idea would be that you would use it to fly to your far away destination and then take ground transportation from there, be it a rental car or public trans.

The bonus for my idea is it would fit 4-6 people comfortably and would also make an excellent air ambulance or transport for special forces team :D

Course the main obstacle to my idea is I don't know if my design would be practical or not, its kind of a radical design c.c I might have to try to draw it out sometime. It might not even be practical or possible. But I do have a strong feeling that it would be better for someone to come up with a personal flying craft that is not meant to drive, but just meant to take you between far away destinations, focusing on speed and range and cargo capacity and then you would take ground transportation at your destination. Most people wouldn't even need to own one, most would call an Uber like service to meet up with an air taxi based on this craft that would take them where they needed to go. It would be better than an airport because you wouldn't be tied to their schedule. You would call and the service would dispatch a flying vehicle to the nearest park and fly type space. They drop you off in a similar such park and fly nearest your final destination in whatever city you go to. From there you take a bus or maybe they have a car waiting for you that can take you, your passengers and your cargo since it won't be a flying car and will have the room for your needs.

Basically a VTOL jet, longer and with more seats than this guy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBG7fkHlPY4

This thing is RAD, but closer to what I linked than what you're talking about:
http://www.skywalkervtol.com/specifications.html

That has a very short wingspan, I wonder if it would even fly efficiently or at all. The short wingspan needed for something that can take to the air and crawl along on the ground is really one of the big problems with a "flying car". Now antigravity technology, that would change the entire game. But we don't have that :)

Two words: growth ray. Take to the air, grow the wings to suit, fly to your destination, shrink the wings, land. Boom, done. ^_^

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