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- Sure the idea of a flying car SOUNDS brilliant, but would it really so cool? Trace and Anthony sit down and look at the flying cars out there today (yup, there are some!) and find out if life would be any better if we took our cars skyward.
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"Flying Concept Car Could Hover Over Congestion"
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"Automaker Hyundai recently held what seems like the best office-wide contest ever, asking its R&D engineers to show off their ideas."
Terrafugia: TF-X
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"TF-X™ is the practical realization of the dream of countless visions of the future; it is designed to be the flying car for all of us."
"Flying Car Gets FAA Approval"
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"The Federal Aviation Administration has just removed a major hurdle from the path of a vehicle that may well be the first commercially viable flying car."
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Flying Concept Car Could Hover Over Congestion
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"Automaker Hyundai recently held what seems like the best office-wide contest ever, asking its R&D engineers to show off their ideas."
Terrafugia: TF-X
www.terrafugia....
"TF-X™ is the practical realization of the dream of countless visions of the future; it is designed to be the flying car for all of us."
Flying Car Gets FAA Approval
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"The Federal Aviation Administration has just removed a major hurdle from the path of a vehicle that may well be the first commercially viable flying car."
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If we had flying cars imagine how many fails we had on TH-cam to watch
Patryk Ponichtera , nah youtube would block them because they’d offend people that identify as flying mini-buses.
I just think of how many bad drivers there are out on the roads and how bad they do behave, now think how it will be if we let them up in the sky with flying machines :-)
This is exactly my fear too... at least with the 20-hour, super expensive licensing program there's a bit of a filter to weed out your everyday stupid NASCAR-driver wannabe... Ideally you'd just have the people who are really serious about it flying around.
we'll have flying cars when;
1. They can drive themselves.
2. A different energy source other than petrol, petrol is outdated tech if you ask me.
Another reason why flying cars is a bad idea. Think of how many people forget to put gas in their cars. When they're on the ground, it's fine the car just stops moving forward. If that happened when that same person would be in the air, gravity would make a mess out of the situation. The person would surely die, and there might be more land casualties as well.
Nia T but what about land casualties?
Nia T but it would fail without any power right?
Lea Bejjani
it will automatically land with parachute on safe area
***** that is actually pretty smart. I didn't think of that. Although I think gliding would rely mostly on luck for landing, since if the driver loses power there might not be a way to steer this thing
It's hard to land a plane with no engine, but it IS possible. Your wings will still keep you up, as long as they've not been torn off, and the craft hasn't suffered some other damage. Losing propulsion doesn't mean you automatically start tumbling out of the sky and die. If it's just a matter of fuel or power, then it just means you have to land differently.
Flying Cars: Best Or Worst Idea Ever? Watch Anthony Carboni & Trace Dominguez talk it out!
I really like these friendly debates
Well if you can't have flying cars, then just make hover cars duh
Okay guys 2015 is coming up so we can't let Back to the Future down!
+Michael Echeverria not even 2016
Flying cars are completely feasible if they implement features which prevent collisions and dangerous piloting.
VToL would remove the issue of runway space.
If graphine ever becomes easily produced, then incredibly small, light weight, but powerful electric powered aircraft will be possible, making the space concerns even less of an issue.
Flying cars might be common in the 22nd century. Just look at how fast technology is evolving at the moment.
22nd century? Do you understand how long 86 years is at our current rate of advancement. We'll practically be gods by then.
Willy Goat You mean like Thor? :D
nfcoard Exactly
The point of the video is NOT whether or not flying car is possible, the point of the video IS whether or not flying cars are good ideas.
Unless all the birds were extinct, and they somehow implemented a system that could prevent crash, it would never be common.
The 400mph speed is quoted on the Terrafugia site. I'm also not saying a PPL is a bad license, I'm just using it to illustrate that getting a license for one of these flying cars is a lot of work and expense, unlike a driver's license. :) -Anthony
I think it's a bad idea. You think drunk drivers are scary? Think about drunk flyers. That is just terrifying to even think about it. O_O
My problem is: what's stoping people you buy these from crashing into houses,hotels,business buildings,etc.
Oh snap! You're right- I was thinking of the Skyblazer. So not this particular car, but another flying car. My bad! -Anthony
I can't say I'm a fan of this concept. Being an aircraft mechanic and future pilot I must say that from what I know of the business, as well as a good few factors such as cost and training that you've mentioned, I wouldn't look forward to this technology. Interesting as it is in theory, and hey, I was a HUGE fan of Back to the Future as a kid, too, the collective civilian world is just not 'smart' enough to handle it. There are not only FAA regulation to consider but also navigation systems and constant radio contact that is not only legal but required for safety to consider. It's just a better idea to go get on a plane for now, until we get to the Star Ocean 3 phase hundreds of years from now where there's been a complete transportation system redux.
I dunno, that's just my two cents.
i think flying cars need to take more of a helicopter approach. like they said, planes need a lot of space to take off and land, where as helicopters do not, and helicopters can hover in a single spot, where as only billion dollar jet fighters can do that right now....... so if you're waiting for a parking spot, pretty sure you'd rather have a helicopter like craft that can hover and wait for a spot, or if you want to land by a shopping mall or house, it's more efficient to be able to slowly come down like a helicopter instead of having to circle the whole block and then come down miles of runway just to land.........
DreadlockDrummer what about combining the concepts? a helicopter is slower and easier to maneuver, but what if you need to go fast at a destination? then you need speed. so what about engines which can make 90 degree turns on an
axis, so that you can take off like in a helicopter,and zoom around like in a jet fighter. there are helicopters in development based on this concept.
+Gabriela Balanovici expensive V.T.O.L. cars
The act of flying isn't actually all that hard. Take off and landing is difficult, but still, once you've logged your hours, procedural memory takes over. The reason it takes so much education is that you have to know all kinds of contingencies for when things go wrong. And you have to know a lot of technical specifications. Rather, you need to understand them. If you're not flying through storms on a regular basis, though, it's physically pretty easy...certainly easier than a car.
I think it would need to be like a VTOL car or helicopter, because it would be hard to find a runway if you're trying to get to someone's house or to work or something.
pointless, another fuel consuming machine..
If you were around in 1914, is that what you would have said about the car? Or the airplane? Mmmhhhhmm.
TNTSkeleBro PlaysMinecraft
Yes luddite. Ground cars are heading down the electric route, and will be forced there by escalating oil prices.
Alternative fuels will bring about an oil crash.
However, this will cause a drop in oil prices. This will be subsidized by non-food based biofuels (made of plants that are not essential food crops.) Thus aviation fuel for aircraft and aircars will be as affordable as fuel for your car today. Not cheap, but affordable.
I feel sorry for you, overwhelmed by the scary technology of the 21st century.
Maybe you could wear some flares and make like its 1976?
joshua miller
They said we had 40-50 years of oil left, 50 years ago...
We will keep finding oil.
''Electric power that is not from solar panels is also non-renewable because the electricity is produced by burning coal (fossil fuel)''
I will assume that you're still young and ignorant, I forgive you..
Water dam ; Hydroelectricity, renewable, green and basically, as long as you have water, you have an infinite supply of electricity.
In Canada, 60% of the electricity is produced by hydroelectricity.
and 95% in Quebec.
Wind : Infinite resource.
Nuclear fusion ; Is a possibility in a nearby future, it's the ultimate green energy.
Batteries are hundred times more efficient and durable than 20 years ago, give it some time.
Right now battery powered car's problem is that you need to replace the batteries once in a while, which cause pollution.
Give it a few decade and batteries will be much better.
Christopher Hémond
It's not wether we will _have_ oil.
It's whether demand will exceed extraction costs. Then oil becomes too expensive for current levels of use.
We need alternatives: biofuels that aren't food-based. Fusion power stations and electric vehicles.
it runs on electric motors
The problem I have with flying cars, aside from the people being as terrible at piloting as they are at driving, is the maintenance aspect of it. If your car breaks down on the road, no big deal most of the time - you just get stranded and have to call a tow truck. If an aircraft breaks down in flight, well...just use your imagination.
Would there have to be regular inspections for flying cars like there are 100 hour and annual inspections for aircraft? And how would you handle situations where people didn't take their flying cars in to be checked/fixed, or worse, tried to do the work themselves. Fixing your own car is one thing. Fixing your own plane, highly frowned upon. Are A&P's allowed to do their own planes? I forget.
Anywho, I see a ton of safety issues having to be worked out before they would be legal.
We're now entering an era where vehicles now send maintenance reports to your phone. And with the vehicles like Terafugia TFX allegedly being completely autopilot with a self-deploying parachute, there doesn't seem to be much to worry about.
I sincerely hope this will never happen.
You've seen what drunk driving can do. Imagine drunk FLYING.
And even when it comes to self-driving cars, imagine what a technical issue would do.
If you are hit by a car, you have some chances of still being alive after it, but what if it falls on you from over 500ft high? What if it falls on your house?
This really freaks me out.
Not to mention the fact that looking at the scenery will be much less enjoyable. You look at a view (eg city+lake+mountains) and there are tons of cars on the roads: ok, you can still enjoy it. You look at it and there are cars everywhere in the sky: ruined!
I gave a presentation on these car-planes in class once, and my teacher said,"I don't believe these are a real thing." and gave me a C+
I share the idea if "flying cars" being computer controlled for mass transportation. The idea that you can modify these types of cars would need to be made illegal for safety (which I believe people can agree with). The idea of a flying car as seen in the photos and my idea of a flying car are very different. No wings for one and no exposed blades either. Jet engines are to dangerous for close quarters flying. No wheels. No skid plates. In my idea of a "flying car" is it isn't a car, helicopter or jet. I actually have no idea what to call it at all. It will hover, move up and down, forward and reverse, it will have signal lights (tail-lights l, turn-signals and reverse indicators) also headlights, but what should it be called?
i'd rather not see a flying car. having some drunk guy hitting some random person and having them both into a building is something i dont want to see happening. unless they automatically control themselves or they only can drive in certain areas away from humans cuz that would be a problem if someone suddenly smashes in your room. plus it is going to make stealing alot easier (easier to reach higher places without needing a chopper or a plane)
That's a good point. I think another solution would be to create "elevator zones" where only vertical movement is permitted. Entering one these zones would cause the car to hover in a stationary position until the auto-pilot system allows the car to safely ascend or descend.
You practically took the words right out of my mouth, except I couldn't readily think of "anti gravity" to describe those Back To The Future hover-cars.
i think that in about 200- 300 years, when we have figured out fusion properly or something that we could use a car that i saw in a article (still on the drawingboard) that has rotateable engines so it can lift off and land vertically but stil fly as a jet when in the air
Let's start with emergency vehicles, then move on to making freeways automated air routes, and maybe throw in a bit of Jak II on the side.
As a pilot the idea of the driving plane scares me. Not to mention the airspace congestion, to meet seperation standards most of peoples time would be spent holding while waiting to land
A self-driving, electric, VTOL-capable craft might be a possibility. A quadrotor design might be adequate for traveling within a large metro area, while having backup motors and props. Anything with a runway is out (until we get into serious travel).
You should have stated 500 feet in spherical space. Not necessarily only vertical and/or horizontal "planes."
Flying cars could be really good as public transportation. Especially if you combine it with the derigible "comeback." Maybe derigible taxis and flying shuttle buses can get you to general areas and suburbs better than a train might, without having to lay down any new infrastructure.
You guys should do an updated version of this conversation. The playing field is considerably different today.
Instead of roadkill, we'd get airkill.
We just need to wait for fusion powered propulsion engines so that are flying cars can take of vertically, and then this would be a good thing. Oh, and yes also the autonomous features is a must, it will reduce the oh so prevalent human errors, and allow for self balance, collision avoidance, and just complete sense of awareness in the sky. Because everything looks a little different from above, and humans aren't naturally good navigators in the sky!
Great episode guys! Lots of good arguments on either end, and altogether a really engaging conversation where I learned a whoole bunch :D
I actually came up with something similar a few years ago. All cars travelling, say, west would be at one altitude, where as north would be different altitude etc.. Assuming a universal speed of all vehicles, this would prevent almost all accidents.
Why not do something similar to Back to the Future by having flying lane dividers?
don't hate. everything takes progress. and we are getting much closer to "flying cars" with drones. it is wrong headed to say we shouldn't move forward until its all perfect.
I'm currently a student pilot and fly once a month, I need my medical before 16 yrs minimum to solo fly and the PPL at 17 minimum. In the C172 costs 145 WET and an instructor +40 dollars.
A big problem with flying cars / planes is that there is a big margin for error in a car. If the engine on a car quits or fails you can just pull over where as in a plane you need the skill to glide it back down if you are lucky. If you crash in a car you might be seriously injured but at least you aren't now falling out of the sky. I'm not saying airplanes are dangerous at all because to be a pilot there is a lot of things you have to go over just for one flight.
The transition from ground cars to flying cars will be interesting. Suddenly the roads are a lot more open!
They should be shaped like drones so they can hover, making lift off areas more efficient
these conversations are great ! It would be awesome to see more of these !
Keep up the amazing work !
And I agree , even though I think handing over flight control to computers on a large scale makes it very voulnerable to attacks.
I think we need to develop anti-grav tech or something that gives us much better control of vehicles in the potentially turbulent atmosphere before flying cars become viable for the MASS population. Driving a car on a flat 2-D plane is MUCH easier compared to having to maneuver something through the support of fluidic pressure forces in 3-D space, which only works with CONSTANTLY moving aerodynamic surfaces. If you stall your car, you don't crash into the ground at ~212 mph, at worst you just curse a lot, put on the emergency lights, and use the pedal/emergency brakes till you coast to a stop.
Well the type that are currently about are basically like guided missiles from take off to touch down. The forward momentum is greater than any other force. A drone style, fly-in-all-direction aircraft with a lower top speed would be much safer, would cause significantly less damage towards anything it may collied into and be much safer for the driver, passengers and anyone/thing nearby. Flying cars will someday be in our future, if our future is long enough. Who knows!?!?!
if they are self flying and driving when they get sold then yes i see a great future in it but only if there not fold able planes but quad copters or something like that can take of vertically
Well the Terrafugia TFX does all its flying completely on autopilot. The driver enters a gps location, and the vehicle handles the rest. VTOL.
mark my words " the day humanity discovers anti gravity is going to be the new industrial revolution."
Do not give the Russians this technology!
they'll just put dashcams on them...
***** oh the horror ( of youtube videos )
Why? Russians are better drivers... the fact they have car cameras for insurance purposes... thus have more traffic accident video's...
@@DevillJin vodka
Airships don't fall like a brick when their motors stop working. I've also had a fantasy dream of having an aerostat as a house.
Fun fact, the upper atmosphere of Venus (about 50 to 55+ kilometers up) should have the same pressure as earth sea level (what the majority of us live in), temperatures safe for us with proper gear/habitats, and an atmosphere where the air we breath (oxygen and nitrogen) is a lifting gas. In other words, we can find a way to shield against acid, floating cities! ^^
In Back to the Future they had de-hydrated Pizza Hut pizza that grew from a small little puck into a large pizza. They also had those weird cloths that fit themselves.
same thing was thought when the first cars started on the public streets, but after many changes in the behavior of peoples cars become necessary, the same will come with flying cars, every new thing brings changes and adaptation sometimes bad sometimes good, you cant know without trying.
once the skies get busy people will take to the road basically you can't win in my opinion but, it would be nice to maybe find an efficient way to minimize traffic in both the air and the sky. Something like housing for work. where all the people who work in a once location are all living close together and can effectively car pool or heli pool...
1,000 feet of runway?
Ain't nobody got time for that, it's called a VTOL.
I have a CPL and the idea of having my own flying car sounds awesome! However, the concept of people flying around with a minimum of only 20 hours flight experience is horrifying. I presume there would still have to be a rather strict standard to meet; most students become first solo capable after 10 - 20 hours of flight time, but this doesn't mean they are ready to be fully licensed.
You can fly under 500ft agl, in Golf Air Space where it is covered in your 20 hr flight lessons which is a recreational(30hr) or sport(20hr) license but, there is a hp limit, also only during daytime flight and a max 2 seat(sport) and a 4 seat(Rec) , and there are TONS of un-controlled airports where Zero communication is required.... These first flying cars is for your "doctors" types.... not your every day citizen, which is like you guys said.... a sloooooooow climb into adaptation... this flying car deal is more complicated than what the company is making it seem..... (HOPE is what I have, but thats all I see..)
I love the idea of the flying car in theory. It's so cool!
I don't feel comfortable with the idea of a flying car. All of the same problems with cars on the road will happen in the sky like accidents. When a flying car crashes or runs out of gas, it will fall. The people in it will probably die, and whenever they will will be dangerous. They could fall on a person, a house, an office building, etc etc... Maybe if they have a computerized pilot system I would love flying cars. :-)
The volocopter is quieter than large rotored helicopters, much easier to fly,
and speeds would not have to be dangerously high. Vertical takeoff and
landing is the gold standard for commuting, also. Parking lots for volocopters
could be underground revolving ferris wheel-type affairs to store them vertically.
Your ride home could be waiting for you after work, and you could have a beer
on the way home as the guidance/navigation system took you home safely in
air traffic corridors. :D
You guys should make a video about how far something remotely controlled can actually go. Remote controlled car, bike, helicopter, plane , etc.....
My biggest concern with flying cars would be breakdowns. If you're regular breaks down in the middle of the street that's problematic enough, but if you're over five hundred feet in the air? It's going to be a long way down.
Not to mention working prototypes of working automated cars already exist. I still hope "traditional planes" will still exist for us flight loving nostalgic types--in the same since that you can still buy a horse and buggy today as a niche market item/service.
We could set up a system where a certain number of people get 2000ft licenses, 2050ft licenses, 2100ft licenses etc. Then all flying cars at that altitude would be tracked by satellite, linked together on the same 2-dimensional matrix, and controlled by a universal auto-pilot system to prevent collisions.
also seeing these guys interact is pretty cool
I think maglev mass transport should be the future of transportation. It's potentially much faster than planes, and it's based on 100% clean energy, it can be used like a train or like a car (like the evacuated tube, ET3 . com)
I'd love seeing a video about it :)
What always worried me was whether or not we would end up having traffic in air.
I think the technology is fantastic. I'd feel WAY more comfortable if there was a computer driving the flying (and rolling, for that matter) cars. Most people in North America are *really* bad drivers, but most of them think they are pretty good drivers. I don't trust them on land, and see no reason to trust them in the sky.
But a flying car in concept is freaking amazing!
Traffic congestion isn't some inherent problem of having cars or roads - road communism is the problem; roads being run by the government and being given away for free. For-profit roads would almost certainly implement anti-congestion pricing. I believe they have this in Singapore.
I'll get into a flying car when they're like the ones from back to the future where they hover in mid air and actually have to keep moving like a normal plane would.
Here's the thing about flying cars you're not think of Dnews. We build our cities based around roads that carry thousands of cars. If you build a city around flying cars I think it would be better off. Right now it seems impractical since you couldn't land in the city you'd have to land at an airstrip, but if you built a city that had specialized landing srtips for landing and taking off and quick access to roads I think you'd have an answer to your problem.
Does it work in Winter?
For taking off and landing, vertical jet motors like the ones on say the hercules would be good and plain old reusable parachutes for landing.
Three horrible words not considered: Flying car accidents.
We need magnet cars, kind of like the mag-lev train. No gas, little energy used, fast transportation. There would be giant magnets under the pavement, and instead of wheels we would have more giant magnets. Seems great to me.
I really enjoyed this debate-styled episode! Please do more, it's fun to hear multiple opinions!
Hold on, why are they arguing about regulations and laws that hinder the invention of flying cars?
Actually the regulation is 1,000ft over congested areas, and 500ft from persons or property in non-congested areas. If you are flying over the desert or something you can fly as low as you like.
The V-PALL is like a car helicopter hybrid, just take off if you are in a traffic jam
A self flying plane is infinitely more easy to design than a self driving car. Planes have had autopiloting systems for decades, we still haven't come close to a production level self driving car.
Have you guys checked out Moller International's "Skycar"? The idea looks a lot better to me than Terrafugia's models.
Probably more expensive too, but a much better design in the long run from my perspective.
They've been working on this for years. You should look them up. Pretty interesting.
this should work by a predetermined distance, the farther you have to fly the higher you can go so small distance flights could land safely without searching for a gap between planes
there's a new driverless car that flys its still in the working and its called project vahana and there looking to have a working prototype at the end of 2017 its gonna be a taxi service so you can't buy one for you and the service is gonna be up and running in 2021
They should've made it into like a helicopter car
What about the Hoverbike by aerofex? Its basically a flying car, rather than a driving plane. Easy to fly and no need for a runway. Plus it looks really cool.
i still havnt seen hooverboards i want a hoverboard before flying cars
oh i think flying cars for it to be a thing, itll need like certain airway roads to structure its flow so its not just all over the place. itll be heavily structured and regulated before it becomes a thing
One thing not talked about is whether the use of water as a fuel source could ease the economic hardship of a flying car or plane/car.
Don't forget the supper weird clothing and hover scooters!
I was just at AirVenture Oshkosh and the latest Terrafugia was there, and it said it was designed to be all street legal, but wasn't really a very good design to me. They seemed impractical at this point in time.
I love a good debate!
PS. I'm siding with Anthony on this. Flying cars: bad...for now.
I think you may be mistaking miles per hour for meters per second. The speed of sound is around 340 meters per second, which translates to roughly 770 mph. Still fast as heck though :)
The new prototype takes off vertically so no runways needed. I guess you would need to get some permit to install a home helipad, and as they got more popular you might see helipad parking lots.
way I look at it, the future is a time when things upgrade, or advance, if cars advance into flying cars, or "driving planes" safety also will advance. if anyone has ever seen demolition man, you'll know what I am talking about.
Heavy wind and rain can ground a small airborne vehicles and the more vehicles are in the air, the greater the chance one will fall on you.
I hear that. I hate having to drive everywhere to get in this country. A car with VTOL would be handy.
How much you can fly before you have to refuel it? it looks to have small space for cargo ... with the space for people and its engine...
your right but by centralized control i mean control that will coordinate all cars about available paths, but the car will do the decisions by them self's that way noone could manipulate with the cars.
I think Terrafugia should scrap the Transition and focus on the TFX. It's much more practical, eco-friendly, and actually looks like a flying car.
If these were implemented, I think it would be better if it came in the form of a truckCopter where it would be more suited to move freely in and out of traffic. But more specifically, it would b for companies to transport cargo rather than for people using them to CASUALLY get to places. They wouldn't b small either.
the TF-X is AI controlled around other aircraft. It also has parachute safety systems and contacts authority if there is an emergency
We all will have flying cars one day keep hope alive.