#784 – Flying
Posted on February 7, 2014 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comic
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I think we can reasonably anticipate that flying cars will never be marketed, for the simple reason that having to maintain enough airspeed to stay aloft will make it impossible to crawl along at 20 MPH ignoring everything that’s happening around you.
Depends on how you make them fly, if you use gravity manipulation, airspeed is irrelevant.
Or use vtol capabilities…
I’ve had the same argument against flying cars for a long time.
It goes like this:
A lot people have a hard enough time managing the Left/Right and Forward/Backward principles of cars without crashing.
And now you want to introduce Up/Down?
That’s exactly what would happen. The average driver can’t negotiate a four-way stop, how can they negotiate airspace?
I’ve long believed that flying cars would require AI to navigate them for us and adequate security to keep movie-hacker-terrorist-types from taking over the entire traffic grid at once and turning it inside out.
In other words, not in my life time.
7.2 billion people. Better make those nuclear powered flying cars.
that just means that the ground collapses over you when idiots crash into the ground
Legislation is already claiming territory on autonomous vehicles (so AI/hardware companies can scam their way out of liability and blame the “driver”) which is a definite sign of progress.
I like the XD in panel two, d00d is stoked.
My belief is that somewhere in history we unconsciously traded flying cars for personal computers. Considering how often our PCs tend to crash, I’m kind of glad we did…
(Headcanon: That’s actually an alternate universe.)
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