28-12-2002 07:33									#1
	Flying Cars: Are they feasible? Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

Watching Back to the Future 2 got me thinking on this unusual subject. Flying cars a cool concept, but are they really feasible? They would do a great deal to solve the problems of traffic gridlock that plague so many of us. But they would almost certainly be several orders of magnitude more dangeorus, and would require much more training than conventional cars. Perhaps some sort of automated pilot system could be implemented where the driver simply punches in some coordinates, or something of that nature and the car does most of the work. But now I am rambling. So my question for 'Poly is, will we one day be crusing around in flying cars?

	28-12-2002 07:53									#2
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Yes, it's technologically feasible, but when used en masse, you'd experience total chaos.

	28-12-2002 07:58									#3
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Yeah... think about traffic accidents NOW, imagine if it were 50 feet in the air... and then hitting other cars below those two... and then hitting the ground!

Yikes!

	28-12-2002 08:05									#4
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Feasible? Of course! They are called airplanes.

ACK!

	28-12-2002 08:08									#5
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Smartass .

	28-12-2002 09:43									#6
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All I can say is Back to the Future Trilogy DvD set is AMAZING!

	28-12-2002 09:52									#7
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I concur Matt.

	28-12-2002 10:04									#8
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not feasible if we stick to fossil fuels

	28-12-2002 10:08									#9
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Some morons already have enough trouble driving regular cars. I'd hate to give them ones that fly.

	28-12-2002 12:34									#10
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Yes they are feasible. But only the very rich will be able to afford them (yes I know they said that about automobiles 100 years ago )

And can you imagine the effects of drunk drivers? Lawsuits would go through the roof from people crashing into people's homes.

	28-12-2002 20:07									#11
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i always think of 5th element when someone says flying cars. to me really thats asking for a 4,000 car pile up...

	28-12-2002 20:10									#12
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quote: Originally posted by MRT144 i always think of 5th element when someone says flying cars. to me really thats asking for a 4,000 car pile up...

They're too risky really. Can you imagine the damage someone could do by flying cars into buildings or power stations?

Plus can you imagine the fuel they would use? If you think pollution and gas prices are bad now...

	28-12-2002 20:38									#13
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I wonder... When people are making cheap guesses about future inventions,
don't they realize how sparse the fuel will be?

	28-12-2002 20:52									#14
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I saw a device similar to a flying car being designed in Israel. It has a twin fans, that rotate in opposite directions, and surrounded by the hull of the car. It is supposed to be used by law inforcement around 2020.

I'll post a link if I find one.

	29-12-2002 00:01									#15
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A flying car is under development in the US. A working prototype has already been developed, now they're trying to bring the price down to about 50,000 - 100,000 dollars per unit.

	29-12-2002 00:10									#16
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Is it the one that's required to be tied to a flagpole while flying, because it has no aircraft license? The one that uses ****el engines?

	29-12-2002 00:13									#17
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dunno

	29-12-2002 00:29									#18
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Censorship sux!

****el = W a n k e l

And a little threadjacking:

I saw a story on CNN about an hour ago about a campaign of a religious environmentalist group, titled: "What would Jesus drive" A flying car is a very good answer to this, could even be used in advertisement some day.

Of course this group had soemthing more timid in mind, something like a fuel efficient car. Personally I feel Jesus would rather ride a bicycle, but an American could hardly ever think of that.

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che: link?

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I read the articles a few years back on Hotwired. I went to the site of the car maker, but that's too long ago to remember.

	29-12-2002 10:49									#21
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We need to get nuclear energy in cars.

	29-12-2002 12:41									#22
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yes radioactive debris scattering all over residential neighborhoods is what we are missing in modern society

Remember, I've worked nuclear power. Where do you think all that primary coolant water goes when a reactor plant heats up?. Storage tanks- and we all know where that ends up.

	29-12-2002 14:36									#23
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There's 2 of them built already, by New Zealanders I think, both red, one for 2 ppl the other for 1 I think.

There's the other one, which is not really a car, but a mini-helicopter, which fits 1 person.

I don't see the citizens using air travel like that. But transportation services, like buses, taxi's, and government services like fire services, hospitals and cops would use them.

	29-12-2002 14:45									#24
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Mr. Fusion! [refering to Back to the Future II, of course]

	30-12-2002 05:34									#25
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident yes radioactive debris scattering all over residential neighborhoods is what we are missing in modern society Remember, I've worked nuclear power. Where do you think all that primary coolant water goes when a reactor plant heats up?. Storage tanks- and we all know where that ends up.

No discharges allowed if you are less than 12 feet from the pier...

	30-12-2002 07:12									#26
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There were some experiments with flying wehicles in the past, but these projects are pretty secret... only a pic here and there leaks out

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	30-12-2002 12:32									#27
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12 feet sounds about right