Well said sir! Anyone who cuts down the ideas of someone else before they've had the opportunity to have a shot at it is a bigoted *****. Musk has been doing unbelievable things since PayPal, and I'm sure they'll continue to succeed. He's crazy for sure, but he's the exact kind of crazy this world is so sorely missing right now...
Please spare us the lecture.
At some point in a meteoric success such as Mr. Musk's, you start believing your own BS. I think the clinical term would be, "megalomania".
And "I don't think it would be hard to build a flying", dumps a whole lot of almost insurmountable obstacles on the shoulders of those who are tasked with the job of actually building it, instead of just "imagining it".
After all, it's already been imagined time and again. I guess you don't remember, "The Jetson's. That was a cartoon series with a flying car in every driveway
As far as most of Mr. Musk's rants go, he's just a swollen talking head, with a massive ego.
It prob wouldn't be that hard, what would be hard is teaching everyone to fly instead of just drive, most people can barely handle driving where you only dealing in 4 directions and moving at 70mph tops, flying at 200 mph with 360 degrees of possible travel would prob be a bit much for a lot.
The flying car has already been invented, they called it the "Piper Cub". The low stall speed was they selling point, about 35mph if I recall correctly.
As far as, "360" possible directions of travel go, I think you're 360 degrees short of a full sphere, since "pitch", (up and down with respect to the horizon), adds another full circle to the possibilities. So really, you have 360 times 360 possible directions of travel. Note I said, "possible", not "practical".
A brake pedal won't work in any airplane, in the same way one won't work in a boat. The simplest strategy would be to navigate by flying low over existing highways. Which would result in an unimaginable number of rear end collisions. What happens when the airspace over the freeway gets too crowded? Would you have a massive anarchistic exodus in all directions? Sounds like an opportunity for a massive chain reaction mid air collision, the likes of which has never been seen on the same type of crash on land.
I can't see the point of someone trying to huckster electric cars, "to save energy", running their yap about "flying cars". The energy required to overcome gravity is considerable, especially in hovering.
Sometime have a look at a pilot training manual, you'll find it's not in the same class of comic book as any drivers' manual.
As far as the rest of you "Muskies" go, did you actually know anything about aircraft control, aerodynamics, the protocols,and legal issues of piloting aircraft, before you posted a bunch of crap, trumpeting about how we should all be on the Musk flying car bandwagon.
Oh wait, now we're going to need flying bandwagons as well. Let's go ask Mr. Musk for one. I'll bet he cl;aims a flying bandwagon wouldn't be that hard to build either.
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