Most stuff that gets posted here is just horrible and bleak shit, so here’s some catastrophically absurd libertarian brainworms instead.
And this is why I say we have a duty to make the cheap ones and fly them anyway. The laws which make this the case are equivalent to those which made people walk in front of early cars waving flags. Between our current fear of any risk, and the vested interests of the powers that be in existing transportation, the flying car will never happen until someone builds one anyway, and allows everyone else to follow in there footsteps.
considering the vast majority of drivers can barely handle two axes without being a danger to others, adding in more is a very bad idea
It’s pretty hard to hold two axes while driving.
Yaw and roll would be too much.
well really it would be pitch that’s new. Cars control yaw (tire scrub), motorcycles and bikes additionally control roll (leaning).
Gonna be so fun trying to teach your average burger about elevator control authority versus airspeed
Ngl this one seems like it has relatively simple analogies. Flying at low speeds looks similar to driving in low traction conditions: need to make larger control inputs for same effect, but too large and you’ll just stall/skid. Available control choices are narrowed. Of course most people are bad winter drivers and you need to practice to get good at it.
3D “rules of the road” would be much funnier. Getting smashed to pieces by a flying Escalade that blew the 8-way stop sign
Cars pitch if you use them wrong
Cars also roll if you use them wrong
I just mean that cars cannot directly control body roll. It’s a result of yaw+speed (and limits control since you lose traction on whatever wheels lift up). Same for pitch, you only get it from hard braking (bad) or acceleration (helpful for RWD).
Oh no I understand, I was just making a joke.
I’m certain that I understand the Bayesian False Confidence theorem correctly, and it says that the more you increase your degree of freedom (axes), the lower the risk of collision, so jot that down.
We have flying cars… They are called helicopters… The new ones are just oversized drones (helicopters with more propellers).
Besides, Joe Average Potato-brain can’t drive for shit and now you want 2 tonnes of shit falling out of the sky when some idiot fucks up?
Car crashes are one of the leading causes of death for several demographics. You could easily argue we should still be carrying flags.
Oh my god I love tiny helicopter quacks.
The forum changed its theme and everything is fucked but its one of my favorite internet interactions of all time.
That’s right up there with the bodybuilding.com thread where the guy couldn’t understand that 7/2=3.5
I hate HOA busybodies as much as the next guy, but those libertarians are crazy. They actually expected OP to do nothing about his next door neighbor trying to teach himself to fly a helicopter. They were saying he should wait until the rotors are flying onto his property, otherwise he hates freedom.
My favorite detail is that he spent $40k of his $100k scratch off lotto winnings on it.
The whole story is just unbelievable at every step, yet OP continues to provide proof to counter it.
They also have moral obligations to make their own deep sea submersibles out of bargain basement carbon fiber.
Stockton Rush energy
Move fast and lithobreak the helicopter I made out of scrap in my garage.
You want flying cars. I want flying trains. We are not the same.
flying trains
maglev coming for ya
One commenter “you could power them with a generator”
Ok yeah let me get my Mr Fusion hooked right up, jeez why didn’t I think of that
Moral duty to build a flying machine to defy an oppressive regime you say?
This is why flying cars are one of my least favorite sci-fi tropes. Clearest example of just replicating the present world but in a futuristic way.
On that note, apparently flying cars are one of Trump’s 2024 campaign promises.
the flying car already exists! it’s called the hot air balloon, and it is piloted only by those of upstanding moral character.
This is why flying cars are one of my least favorite sci-fi tropes. Clearest example of just replicating the present world but in a futuristic way.
I really hate “futurology” that just involves the same stagnant and unjust and ruinous status quo but with more bazinga toys and maybe immortality and superpowers. A glaring example of that was when
posted a picture that he said was his vision for Mars. It was just a big many-laned highway with cars on it with a red lens filter. 
My biggest related pet peeve is liberal sci-fi. When I’m reading a book about some way far-future people in deep space and they casually bring up money, or a recent war, it just completely takes me out of it. Like, motherfuckers, how did your species survive this long? Shouldn’t you have outgrown that shit by now?
In the fantastical far future, your protagonist may have a space truck and goes space trucking to pay bills.
planes were as dangerous as cars they wouldn’t be allowed to exist.
Hmmm, that doesn’t say anything about cars, does it? 🚙⃠
Commercial airlines are like trains - that’s why they’re safe.
Small personal aircraft are like cars - they crash ALL THE FUCKING TIME.
Even then, they are safer than cars because of how hard it is to get certified
they’re the most irritating dorks on the planet but I honestly love libertarians. their fantasy world is so whimsical.
Lol, had me in the first half of the title. Thought they were calling for an airborne people’s war.
rule: Never get in a helicopterEspecially not one you built yourself
Perhaps the generator could be on the ground?
lmao. this must be a bit
This was basically the hovercars in a driving game, Quarantine. It was super dystopian, would not recommend.
