Flying car invention

[fathiyaqaan]

Please help me find the advantages and disadvantages of flying carinvention to our daily life

[Phi for All]

It's all disadvantage, imo. Sounds cool, but it would be a nightmare to add a third dimension to our auto traffic. There might be an advantage if we were to remove most of the roads, and leave just enough to get to our homes/businesses from the landing strips (do our cars hover? That would make a difference), but I don't think we'd do that. I think we'd keep the roads, AND add facilities for our flying processes.

 

I can't even imagine what air traffic control would be like. It would eventually need to be automated for safety, so you really wouldn't be doing the flying yourself. For economy, we'd probably figure out ways to connect multiple vehicles all flying to the same destination. We have cars that can drive themselves now, and I can't help but think it's crazy that we don't just invest more in trains and light rail, rather than hook all our cars up like a train. I think it would be the same for flying vehicles. Better to invest in flying mass transit.

 

An individual flying vehicle is an interesting idea. I think it falters when everybody has one.

[fathiyaqaan]

So in my comprehension, individual flying vehicle might have the advantages and if we were to remove roads and leave just enough space for landing, it maybe have the advantages. But in the conclusion, flying car invention have more disadvantages than advantages and not applicable to use in daily life?

[Phi for All]

We have to leave enough roads to make it to home and work, assuming we need separate space to land. I'm also assuming there is no way to transition between flying mode and driving mode instantly (like landing in the middle of ground traffic), so we would need some kind of isolated landing strips/areas.

 

Since we'd still need roads for short trips in our cars, it seems that we don't gain the advantage of more space/less roads. Possibly the super highways could be removed, since most would probably want to fly for longer distances. It could be done, but at what cost and to what advantage? With all the flying cars, you'd need some kind of aerial highway, flight corridors where you could join other pilots heading in the same general direction.

 

But that's not what people think deep down when they think of flying cars. Most people imagine being able to plot a straight line course to where they're going, to minimize the distance flown. But now imagine a whole city of flying cars, all wanting to fly straight to their destination. It would have to be computer controlled, and doesn't that just take all the fun out of flying your car around?

 

I don't think the advantages of flying cars can be realized, since the necessities of safety and logistics tend not to favor them.

[fathiyaqaan]

Thank you for so much input. I really appreciate your cooperation. The reason why i started this thread because i starting my own blog to discuss about future invention and advantages and disadvantages to daily life. I find it really hard to gather info about this topic and luckily ifound this forum. I really appreciate very much your willingness to share the idea. Thank you very much.

[TerryEmeigh]

The invention of a flying car, would have many more disadvantages, then advantages. One major disadvantage would be air traffic, and no-fly zones. If we were to have flying cars, assuming they could fly at reasonable altitudes, and not just the moderate "hover", there would be many more dangers to areas that are largely populated. A second major disadvantage, would be car, or flying car if you will, crashes. Around the world, nearly 1.3 million people die in car crashes per year. (Based on an article found at asirt.org) Your chances of death in a major car crash, are 1 in 77.4. (Based on information found at livescience.org) However, if you there were flying cars, and that generated "air traffic", then there would be a more profound chance of death, based on the fact that a lot of planes fly faster than the average car. One thing that many people tend to forget when thinking about the invention of flying cars, that are based on air planes, is the fact that air planes can not make a dead stop, so the only way to avoid a crash would be to dodge the other plane, but what if both flying cars tried to go the same way, resulting in a catastrophic crash, that would be all to common. Flying cars are an amazing aspiration, but we must discover better ways to keep drivers safe. We definitely, as humans, have the "thinking power", and technology to build flying cars, however, to make this a "way of the future", we must first find ways to make it safer, and more energy efficient.

[Moreno]

We would need to keep current roads all the same for a sake of cyclists, pedestrians, boardists and archaic transport rallies. Another thing that road maitnance expenses could become slightly to significantly lower.

 

The largest problem with flying cars would be the traffic control, I think. And steering.

 

This is if we assume all the other technical problems solved, such as energy, noise, sharp blades, compactness, materials, etc.

 

Another interesting possibility would be a levitating cars which are capable to hover over road just 20-90 cm above without energy spend for hovering proper.

 

Edited April 22, 2016 by Moreno

[Yvtq8k3n]

I belive their is no problem in the fly cars, it seems an nice ideia. In order to prevent trafic they could add restritions, the higher u are the more faster u can go.

 

Exemple:

 

20 feets in air would go like 70km/h, 40 feets 140km/h.

 

In order for this to be sucesefull it would be highly recomended artificial intelegence, like google car have. So i only see vantages.

Because it is artificial intelegence, in case of failer the car would call the mecanic even before the accident, abit like the IoE(that is already present now and it will be full operation at 2020.

 

The problem of colisions is easly solved because not only my fly can but also the other transmite an sign and both car have sensors.

 

So to finish, flying cars is not only an option but most likely it will be the future, Try bring what i said down, i would love to argue about this.

Edited May 29, 2016 by Yvtq8k3n

[Externet]

If aerial commuting reaches reality some day, it better be married to autonomous auto-piloting to avoid the prepotents and idiots in-a-hurry drivers.

 

What reasons would make aerial commuting preferable to automated automobiles ? What bothers you about cars ? Transit time ? What speed would you be satisfied with to have your own flying transporter ?

[John Cuthber]

If your car goes wrong, is stops moving, and that's not a problem. If your flying car stops then it drops out of the sky...

[Yvtq8k3n]

The reasons are pretty simple, who dont want to go from china to japan in less then 2 hours. In order to do this properly i would like to advice an type of monitor inside of the car wheel that would allow to pick the destination and the method to do it: faster, enjoyable. In order to stop the car, we could also add a stop button, that would try to land.

The case of the car falling of the sky would be quite rare or praticaly impossible, because the car is always doing check-ups before starting to fly(abit of IoE), but even if it fail it would communicate to the other cars, in order to make the avoid it and also we have the stop button rigth?

I realy dont know how much speed the fly car would be able to fly but i belive we could go at max 330km/h(i dont advice more higher then that).

[Manticore]

Apart from traffic problems (not to mention the inevitable presence of drunken idiots & those who would find a way of hacking the control systems) the main problem is that the requirements for road vehicles and aircraft are very different. If it is any good as a car, it is probably going to be a rubbish aircraft and vice versa.

[Klaynos]

Your use case is currently catered for by general aviation.

 

Why are there not more private pilots and aircraft?

 

I'll give you a clue look at the rules governing aircraft manufacturing and maintenance. Aviation is slow moving (in terms of technology) and risk adverse that's why it's so safe. You cannot apply the same set up to general personal transport.

 

What is more likely is autonomous taxis that can fly. But then if you've got automation then the advantages of flying reduce (e.g. traffic isn't such an issue) and why bother having to follow lots of even more strict rules?

 

It's also worth pointing out that around the major world cities and airports the air space is already congested without the introduction of untrained everybodies.

Apart from traffic problems (not to mention the inevitable presence of drunken idiots & those who would find a way of hacking the control systems) the main problem is that the requirements for road vehicles and aircraft are very different. If it is any good as a car, it is probably going to be a rubbish aircraft and vice versa.

Indeed, and people have built convertible vehicles. They never work well and are yet to get any significant sales.

[Moreno]

Insects practiced flight mode at least 300 mln. years ago, and therefore we know that relatively safe flight of a living being is a reality.

The problem is to suite it to modern civilization.

[Bender]

Insects practiced flight mode at least 300 mln. years ago, and therefore we know that relatively safe flight of a living being is a reality.

The problem is to suite it to modern civilization.

insects also crash into everything all the time.