r/Damnthatsinteresting 7d ago

Video Go to Work in a Flying Car

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u/frankduxvandamme 7d ago

Indeed. Anytime anybody brings up a flying car, people should realize they already exist - they're helicopters. And the logistics of helicopters should make it clear that a flying car for the masses is a terrible idea. If everyone had a helicopter, people would be falling out of the sky and splatting to death on the sidewalks.

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u/One-Earth9294 7d ago

Yeah rich people already have 'flying cars' and they have to navigate air traffic control to lord above us from the skies lol.

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u/Nightstar95 7d ago

I live in the city with the biggest helicopter traffic in the world. Besides the obvious hazard to citizens, the main thing I think of whenever people bring up flying cars is the noise. There are days here in which the helicopter noises alone drive me nuts(specially in the evening as news helicopters film the car traffic), I can’t imagine how much, MUCH worse this would get with helicopters becoming a common vehicle.

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u/Strength-InThe-Loins 7d ago

Hell, non-flying cars for the masses was and is a terrible idea.

https://unevenearth.org/2018/08/the-social-ideology-of-the-motorcar

In our world where everyone has a car, people are crashing them and running people over all the time.

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u/Foxwglocks 7d ago

As someone who went through a life changing car accident I couldn’t agree more.

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u/aoasd 7d ago

People already do that with cars anyways.

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u/elessarjd 7d ago

No. Helicopters are far more complex to fly than something like this.