Reply to: for the discerning contractor.........

[ladymuck]

I can't see them being commercially viable.

[d000hg]

I don't really get why people pursue flying cars as a commercial venture, surely everyone can see the way the world is going with cars and air travel? What's the carbon footprint of what's effectively a private plane?!

[vetran]

The problem is that if a car conks out while driving you can usually pull in gently to the curb and await the AA or RAC
(or Merc free roadside assistance if you're AtW)

But if a flying car does the same in flight, you'd go into an uncontrollable dive and land God knows where like a V2 rocket!

Imagine cars full of squirrels and kebab meat crashing into the top of a wall near you!

[DoctorStrangelove]

More like a V1 doodlebug but YMMV.

[OwlHoot]

Yeah, air-travel is far less regulated than road travel

The problem is that if a car conks out while driving you can usually pull in gently to the curb and await the AA or RAC
(or Merc free roadside assistance if you're AtW)

But if a flying car does the same in flight, you'd go into an uncontrollable dive and land God knows where like a V2 rocket!

[d000hg]

Up above the streets and houses - and more importantly the speed cameras...

Yeah, air-travel is far less regulated than road travel

[vetran]

Petrol is a wall killer, diesel on the other hand is baby killer

FTFY

[ladymuck]

I suspect ATC will not be happy about these things whizzing about

[Mordac]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/technology-57660603

Up above the streets and houses - and more importantly the speed cameras...

[GJABS]

You may as well go at Mach 4+

[DoctorStrangelove]

Hope it's better than this one was:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVE_Mizar

Oooops.

[OwlHoot]

It runs on petrol? That'll upset the environmentalists.

Petrol. Pah! Think I'll wait for the scramjet model.

If you're travelling by flying car, there's no point pootling along as if you were in a flying lawnmower. You may as well go at Mach 4+

[NotAllThere]

Petrol is ok, diesel on the other hand is baby killer

Yay. I'm a babykiler.

[Paralytic]

Petrol is ok, diesel on the other hand is baby killer

Surely that depends on how much you feed it?

[AtW]

It runs on petrol? That'll upset the environmentalists.

Petrol is ok, diesel on the other hand is baby killer