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- - when this 'toy' will be available to the general public.

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Well I won't be queuing up for one, anyway. I wouldn't personally have any use for such a thing and the cost is going to be out of my league.
In a way it's got to be in jet-ski territory...a damned nuisance to everyone except the user. Jet-skis rock everybody's boat and that thing I'll bet makes plenty of noise.

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We will just need a bigger swat.
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Bad news for border walls, eh?
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This was on the BBC news this morning. How are they going to impose some sort of control on them similar to cars and vans because these flying machines operate in 3 dimensions as to normal traffic's 2. Are there going to be defined vertical strata and are there going to be defined lanes. What happens when there is a collision and don't mention vehicle insurance. Seems like a potential nightmare to me and another fodder for the legal vultures.
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Sinned wrote:This was on the BBC news this morning. How are they going to impose some sort of control on them similar to cars and vans because these flying machines operate in 3 dimensions as to normal traffic's 2. Are there going to be defined vertical strata and are there going to be defined lanes. What happens when there is a collision and don't mention vehicle insurance. Seems like a potential nightmare to me and another fodder for the legal vultures.
I think it is best to require people who drive/fly this flying car to have both driver's and pilot's licenses so they have the necessary training to operate the vehicle.
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Sinned wrote:This was on the BBC news this morning. How are they going to impose some sort of control on them similar to cars and vans because these flying machines operate in 3 dimensions as to normal traffic's 2. Are there going to be defined vertical strata and are there going to be defined lanes. What happens when there is a collision and don't mention vehicle insurance. Seems like a potential nightmare to me and another fodder for the legal vultures.
I think the Z dimension will be somewhat limited - if the batteries go flat it won't glide. Probably used over water for a soft crash.
Sort of efficient as a hovercraft without a skirt. Hmmm no skirt, what's it doing here then.:)
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denimini wrote:Probably used over water for a soft crash.
Water is incompressible, and when hit hard enough it's akin to hitting concrete.
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Sinned wrote:This was on the BBC news this morning. How are they going to impose some sort of control on them similar to cars and vans because these flying machines operate in 3 dimensions as to normal traffic's 2. Are there going to be defined vertical strata and are there going to be defined lanes. What happens when there is a collision and don't mention vehicle insurance. Seems like a potential nightmare to me and another fodder for the legal vultures.
Relax. I'm sure they'll be self-flying so nothing can go wrong.
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No doubt there'll be a high casualty rate among the users, so that in itself should limit their use, but even with the frequency of 'single vehicle' fatalities in cars, there appears to be lots more of them born every day, alas.

Sort of makes a nonsense of Trump's wall.

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I think it;s the fear of being UNDER one when it fails. And as for nothing can go wrong - that worries me as well as nothing is failproof.
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Sinned wrote:I think it;s the fear of being UNDER one when it fails. And as for nothing can go wrong - that worries me as well as nothing is failproof.
I don't think it'll be the machines that fail so much as the weenies trying to fly them. In the hands of a conscientious user, I'd imagine the things being about as safe as most anything else "General Aviation"; couple it with driver-style bad behaviour, cell' 'phones, and cameras and one has recipe for disaster.
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Carl, whilst I agree with you on the multitude of self-inflicted things that can go wrong through carelessness, stupidity and/or the application of the Darwin principle the effect is the same and can give one an enormous headache, or worse, when someone/thing falls on one.
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This is one of the nice things about the planet -- and, indeed, space itself: we are very small by comparison, so it takes a whole heap of bad luck to come your way all at once to cause anything dramatically amiss. That having been said, and having it pointed up that I have had the assorted crash-test dummy manage to intersect my course -- even with collision-avoidance being tried-- but I have never had the misfortune of having any debris from human (or otherwise) flight fall on me (unless you count one very close call from a wad of seagull-sh!t that I managed to avoid (inadvertently, mind) by putting the top on my convertible up just in time).

I think that for the rest of my lifetime, devices like that capable of causing more than mere lacerations and a headache are going to be few and far between due to price, and those who can afford them aren't likely to be flying where the plebes live anyway.
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