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[–] 26 points 16 hours ago (3 children)
  • [–] 4 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

    you upvoted this pic because... why though ?

    I upvoted this pic because... truly don't know.

    We are not the same

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  • [–] 14 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

    Is anyone really that excited to have cars crashing into your second story bedroom?

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  • [–] 74 points 23 hours ago (17 children)

    Flying cars have been around for ages, they're called helicopters. They're loud, expensive and dangerous as every other idea for something equivalent is.

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  • [–] 6 points 18 hours ago* (3 children)

    Gyrocoptors. They're closer to a flying car, since if you can drive a car, you can legally fly a gyrocoptor in the US. Just remember to file flight plans, and watch out for power lines. The way you land the things is to kill the engine.

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  • [–] 1 point 13 hours ago (2 children)

    They've still got the same danger as helicopters. If something goes wrong, you can't glide and you'll likely just fall out of the sky.

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  • [–] 5 points 13 hours ago (1 child)

    You do glide. The rotor providing lift isn't connected to anything, the lift is provided by horizontal speed. You'd have to literally hit a building, a mountain, or power lines to crash the things. You don't need a pilots license to operate them, because you basically can't crash them and the entire aircraft weighs quite a bit less than a car.

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  • [–] 9 points 22 hours ago (8 children)

    Helicopters aren't cars. But actual flying cars have indeed existed for at least ten years. I'm too lazy to go find this segment I watched on the topic, but I remember seeing one.

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  • [–] 22 points 21 hours ago (6 children)
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  • [–] 78 points 23 hours ago (18 children)

    Musk “it’s a flying car!”

    Car just falls slowly and doesn’t fly anywhere

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  • [–] 15 points 22 hours ago (16 children)

    Fuck musk and all that, but this was a damn cool stunt and some seriously impressive engineering.

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  • [–] 49 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

    Why does there have to be a "but" there? He didn't do any of the engineering, so fuck him regardless.

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  • [–] 7 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

    Unfortunately he paid the engineers to make this stunt for the sole purpose of increasing his wealth.

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  • [–] 27 points 20 hours ago (7 children)

    but, like, not really?

    all that tech already existed, and is used elsewhere on actually cool things that do stuff. it just wasn't applied to cars because there's no practical purpose aside from trying to boost public sentiment and stock valuation.

    sure it was sort of neat, but seeing real machines work on those principles is even neater. it just looks less cool because, y'know, safety

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  • [–] 3 points 18 hours ago (6 children)

    I would install a roof top parking on my house, transform the driveway into garden.

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  • [–] 15 points 21 hours ago* (2 children)

    I feel like I should speak up, because I feel deeply betrayed.

    We had established a solid timeline for moving forward with the project, and the current progress allows us to meet all prerequisites comfortably

    Despite our sincere expectations that we would now initiate our relationship, we find ourselves dumbfounded to have received such a curt and inconsiderate reply.

    Be advised that we're considering all our options, including litigation and not leaving the basement.

    Middling regards,
    Betrayed Person

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  • [–] 34 points 1 day ago

    Real and heterosexual.

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