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Flying car crashes on test taxi
Motorists have long dreamed about flying cars, but they’re still not common place despite the best efforts of a number of different companies. One of the firms working on the idea is Detroit Flying Cars and they’ve suffered a major setback as their WD-1 prototype has crashed at Willow Run Airport in Michigan. According to WDIV and WXYZ, the crash happened shortly after 1 pm local time when the WD-1 was conducting a taxi test. During the test, the plane unexpectedly went airborne and crashed back… (www.carscoops.com) 기타...
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Do you think Liberty Mutual will give them Accident Forgiveness?
Maybe the General & Shaq were riding along.
Don't think it will pass the DOT crash test for an auto let alone fly worth anything. Waste of time Molt Taylor years ago tried to make one was the same deal. Can anyone imagine hundreds of flying cars in LA say? The carnage would be enormous they have trouble now just driving to work. Get real.
Agreed. I guess running the pothole gauntlet on the GW bridge into Manhattan still is safer after I read the article...despite the fact there are potholes large enough to swallow most small cars.
1 down, 38 to go before they get to WD-40. That one will fly.
Stand on any corner in any city and see how many morons are on the road. Do we really want them operating in three dimensions? People speed, run red lights, ignore traffic laws, etc because 99% of the time, they can get away with it. Who's going to monitor and police people like that in the skies?
Flying car inventors are either delusional or scam artists. They always seem to find investors who will pour in cash to keep them in a comfortable lifestyle and then when the whole thing both figuratively and literally crashes and burns, the inventor walks away (unless they're dumb enough to be their own test pilot, which few of them are) and the investors lose their money. Look at the histories of pretty much every flying car company founder and you'll see this is true. (The same usually applies to people who start new car companies. (See Bricklin, DeLorean, etc.)
Until we perfect, and by "perfect" (the verb) I also mean perfect (the adjective), self-driving cars and they are proven safe and are accepted by the vast majority of people, there's no way that flying cars are going to be approved.
Flying car inventors are either delusional or scam artists. They always seem to find investors who will pour in cash to keep them in a comfortable lifestyle and then when the whole thing both figuratively and literally crashes and burns, the inventor walks away (unless they're dumb enough to be their own test pilot, which few of them are) and the investors lose their money. Look at the histories of pretty much every flying car company founder and you'll see this is true. (The same usually applies to people who start new car companies. (See Bricklin, DeLorean, etc.)
Until we perfect, and by "perfect" (the verb) I also mean perfect (the adjective), self-driving cars and they are proven safe and are accepted by the vast majority of people, there's no way that flying cars are going to be approved.
History reflects the same about aircraft manufacturers or most progressive inventors. It not about flying cars but an idea, those ideas that have taken mankind to where we are today. Electric automobiles, "come on", "give me a break", " it could never work". I remember reading that twenty-some years ago.
Keep moving Detroit Flying Cars and NASA and all who are able to take humanity the next 100 years and beyond. You are hardly delusional and there are times when being a "scam artist" is the only way to get there, just ask my wife.
Keep moving Detroit Flying Cars and NASA and all who are able to take humanity the next 100 years and beyond. You are hardly delusional and there are times when being a "scam artist" is the only way to get there, just ask my wife.
I will venture to guess the "GROUND" will pretty much police the idiots!
