Waste of Precious Time

Delta said:

Can you imagine how many accidents there would be with flying cars... people zipping around all over the place. I think what is more likely is something similar to what you see in iRobot - cars that drive themselves at a locked speed etc. I mean, they've already developed cars that can parallel park themselves.

I think we're likely to see mass production of self-driving cars sooner than we will see flying cars.

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Well for one thing, they would need a (much harder to get) license. However, I was thinking of something more along the line of flying cars running autopilot.

The problem with your idea (and mine) is that there si no AI advanced enough to make the decisions. Even in airplanes, there may be autopilot but it is never used to actually land, takeoff, or in emergencies. Also, we would need some kind of reliable mass communication for all the cars to 'talk' to each other in order to properly drive, traffic lights, e.g.

omeythehomie said:

Well for one thing, they would need a (much harder to get) license. However, I was thinking of something more along the line of flying cars running autopilot.

The problem with your idea (and mine) is that there si no AI advanced enough to make the decisions. Even in airplanes, there may be autopilot but it is never used to actually land, takeoff, or in emergencies. Also, we would need some kind of reliable mass communication for all the cars to 'talk' to each other in order to properly drive, traffic lights, e.g.

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Maybe their license should be like the one used by airplane pilots. But we can more likely get more accidents by using flying cars like I saw on the anime Cowboy Bebop.

Maybe the best solution to traffic jams are flyovers and more public utility vehicles.

Flying cars won't be coming for a long time...well at least good flying cars. By the time we have them, we will probably have good stabilizers and stuff.

The automatic driving sounds interesting. I know of a few engineers showing off their proposed system. It was pretty cool. Your car would just lock onto a rail and it would carry you along at 200 MPH until it kicked you off down the road.

The Parakeet said:

Flying cars won't be coming for a long time...well at least good flying cars. By the time we have them, we will probably have good stabilizers and stuff.

The automatic driving sounds interesting. I know of a few engineers showing off their proposed system. It was pretty cool. Your car would just lock onto a rail and it would carry you along at 200 MPH until it kicked you off down the road.

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200 MPH is an accident prone speed for normal streets. Maybe in highways and expressways it will be fine but not on streets.

Well the idea was that you'd be pulled along by a rail system with good sensors spacing out the cars. You'd go back to normal speeds once the driver was back in control.

The Parakeet said:

Well the idea was that you'd be pulled along by a rail system with good sensors spacing out the cars. You'd go back to normal speeds once the driver was back in control.

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Well... That is a good idea. Maybe like a train. So the cars will be on rails? So, in your idea, how do they control these? Like train controls?

Sorry if I didn't get your idea but I think it will be better than flying cars.

The Parakeet said:

Well the idea was that you'd be pulled along by a rail system with good sensors spacing out the cars. You'd go back to normal speeds once the driver was back in control.

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This is sort of what I was getting at. I didn't mean just free roaming cars driving about by themselves. There would be some sort of rail system or sensor system.

We have the AI available for this sort of thing now. The problem would come in with unexpected occurances where a human element would be beneficial. Like an animal or child unexpectedly jumping out in front of a car. On the other hand, machines would have better reflexes than humans but when to swerve, when to break for a huge array of situations would be hard to program.

The Parakeet said:

Flying cars won't be coming for a long time...well at least good flying cars. By the time we have them, we will probably have good stabilizers and stuff.

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Well, looks like most of us were wrong... it would appear there ARE flying cars just coming onto the market:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHXnLCIgNug&annotation_id=annotation_24416&feature=iv

You can fly it, and then it folds into a car for drive mode. Also runs on regular fuel.

Crazy!

I was sorta refering to those in my post. Someone designed one awhile ago. I saw it on Ripley's Believe It or Not.

It looks like they are finally ready to go public. It's not that practical, but it's a fairly cool idea for someone who likes to fly.

Delta said:

Well, looks like most of us were wrong... it would appear there ARE flying cars just coming onto the market:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHXnLCIgNug&annotation_id=annotation_24416&feature=iv

You can fly it, and then it folds into a car for drive mode. Also runs on regular fuel.

Crazy!

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I saw that on another forum aswell. I think it will be more dangerous than a normal car since when you ran out of gas, you will crash from a high place. Which means more accidents might occur. And we will need more air traffic controllers.

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