The Rise of the Flying Car is Finally Happening

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  • čas přidán 14. 12. 2020
  • Flying cars have been a staple of futuristic fantasy since the dawn of science fiction. Now, thanks to a new crop of eager, well-funded startups, those visions may finally become a reality, and soon appear over a city near you thanks to efforts by companies such as Uber, Volocopter, Ehang, Lilium, Joby Aviation and others.
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  • @DigitalNomadOnFIRE
    @DigitalNomadOnFIRE Před 3 lety +221

    "I don't see any flying cars, why?"
    Because they require self-drivng tech. Humans would crash A LOT if most cars could fly.

    • @n1k32h
      @n1k32h Před 3 lety

      So let’s think of current climate. The rise of ufo sightings also is a key indicator to something. Also let’s think of climate plz.

    • @b-borg8942
      @b-borg8942 Před 3 lety +1

      I rather think it's because of vertigo and the fear of heights it's like when someone gets to the border of a balcony on the twenty-fifth floor for the first time and the price of the flying vehicles.
      Now with all those new technologies bringing the price lower peoples will have a new transport mode to adapted themself as we did with the balcony.

    • @pantest3755
      @pantest3755 Před 3 lety +4

      Not only that, human errors due to in flight system will cause the crashes most of the time. But at times certain life span of the items like it worn out need to be replace. Some managers need to be killed and replace because they take the "risk" factor into consideration. -
      It can still fly i'll risk it. - then it will crash.
      True story.
      Human loves to gamble lives. so they will risk it.

    • @theocope6471
      @theocope6471 Před 3 lety +1

      It’s raining drones!

    • @fogsworthheperstein3528
      @fogsworthheperstein3528 Před 3 lety

      This would be very true

  • @JcoleMc
    @JcoleMc Před 3 lety +676

    I asked for a flying car but instead you give me an Oversized drone
    *Screams into pillow*

    • @ecoideazventures6417
      @ecoideazventures6417 Před 3 lety +34

      Please compare the first plane created by the Wright brothers to the ones we see today. so dont cry, rather invest in any of these startups to become a millionaire one day!

    • @imeverywhere9633
      @imeverywhere9633 Před 3 lety +6

      a flying car. ie a plane

    • @deanharmse5126
      @deanharmse5126 Před 3 lety +17

      Guy in 1909...."I asked for an aircraft, but instead you gave me an Oversized kite"...Small steps dude...give this a chance.

    • @chrisjenkins9978
      @chrisjenkins9978 Před 3 lety +4

      😂🤣😂

    • @everythingisfine9988
      @everythingisfine9988 Před 3 lety +3

      @@deanharmse5126 ok, a few decades from now it will a better over sized drone 🧐

  • @ryanchow1995
    @ryanchow1995 Před 3 lety +599

    I948: “we will probably have flying cars in 2020”
    2020: Even the planes aren’t flying.

    • @albertayunda5521
      @albertayunda5521 Před 3 lety +10

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @Boris_Chang
      @Boris_Chang Před 3 lety +12

      I remember as a child at the 1964 World’s Fair in New York, the visions of videophones, kitchen appliances that can prepare complex meals (a la the Star Trek replicator), personal robots, and even self-driving cars and flying cars. We all knew that these easy to imagine concepts would have to wait for technology to catch up: computer technology, battery technology, communications network bandwidth, advanced lightweight materials, etc. But we didn’t really think more than a half-century later, only the videophone would be a reality.

    • @klytouch5285
      @klytouch5285 Před 3 lety +1

      My share in airlines industries.. noooo ....!!! ..😂😂

    • @bertjesklotepino
      @bertjesklotepino Před 3 lety +6

      @@Boris_Chang that is because society has been dumbed down deliberately.
      We still have to accept the bullshit technology from the 60's.
      You know, the only technology capable of getting man on the moon.
      Even todays technology cant do that.
      (Even China has not replicated this feat. Not Russia. NOBODY ever tried to get there with newer technology. Not even Musk. And they still use the same lame excuses to try and keep selling the big lie)

    • @b-borg8942
      @b-borg8942 Před 3 lety

      😂

  • @stockhuman
    @stockhuman Před 3 lety +64

    Goodbye, quiet mornings and clear skies.

    • @capnsteele3365
      @capnsteele3365 Před 3 lety +9

      When has the mornings ever been quite for me they always been loud. I live 47 miles from philadelphia

    • @MrProzacmilkshake
      @MrProzacmilkshake Před 3 lety +1

      @@capnsteele3365 do you like it

    • @capnsteele3365
      @capnsteele3365 Před 3 lety +1

      @@MrProzacmilkshake no but cant change anything

    • @manusharma3601
      @manusharma3601 Před 3 lety +3

      Yeah that happened when the smarter ones of our ancestors decided to come out of jungles and build cities. If you've got a problem with the technology you can always return to your roots and go live in the lap of mother nature.

    • @-HolySpiritDove-
      @-HolySpiritDove- Před 3 lety +2

      Rest in Peace ⛅️😇💫

  • @kato2395
    @kato2395 Před 3 lety +125

    Flying cars? If humans crash while driving in X and Y axis imagine what will happen if you add an additional Z axis.

    • @thebackpacker6957
      @thebackpacker6957 Před 3 lety +8

      On the road we drive on one layer causing more accidents.
      But on the sky we can fly 100's of layers
      Creating more room for each other.

    • @tinydough8746
      @tinydough8746 Před 3 lety +29

      @@thebackpacker6957 Even if there are hundreds of layers, it still doesn't prevent us from stupid people, and drunk flyers.

    • @blvntsessionz924
      @blvntsessionz924 Před 3 lety +3

      tinydough and people who want to cause terror

    • @tinydough8746
      @tinydough8746 Před 3 lety +11

      @@blvntsessionz924 Yeah, some angry people: "Let's crash into this guy's office cause he pissed me off"

    • @optimisticnihlist9705
      @optimisticnihlist9705 Před 3 lety +22

      theyres no way in hell this tech will come to market without being autonomous, for a whole bunch of reasons

  • @jaypark415
    @jaypark415 Před 3 lety +197

    “Imagine how a loud a drone is. Now imagine that, but a thousand times bigger and louder than a drone”

    • @timprex317
      @timprex317 Před 3 lety +20

      People, this thing flys at over 300m in the sky. You will barely see or hear it.

    • @callumosullivan7546
      @callumosullivan7546 Před 3 lety +3

      Elon musk quote

    • @roxxedk9897
      @roxxedk9897 Před 3 lety +8

      Its the comparison to helicopters and being electric that makes them quieter although not perfect. Its the best we got with current tech, that's unless there is a anti gravity device hidden in a bunker somewhere we can use.

    • @timprex317
      @timprex317 Před 3 lety +1

      @Richard Wood wow, you are a smart one.
      They have option to upgrade a take off point from the top of the building or from station on the river or from anywhere basically.
      So it will be "loud" for seconds genious. And check some of their videos, it's really not that loud.

    • @chrisjenkins9978
      @chrisjenkins9978 Před 3 lety

      😂🤣😂 You beat me to it. 😂🤣😂

  • @powelllucas4724
    @powelllucas4724 Před 3 lety +36

    Considering the way most people drive on the ground you would have to walk around all day staring at the sky to avoid the pieces of metal falling to the ground.

    • @hipersamlame
      @hipersamlame Před 3 lety +3

      How many pices of metal you see falling from airplanes on a daily basis?

    • @grassytramtracks
      @grassytramtracks Před rokem +1

      @@hipersamlame planes are maintained by large groups of experts and flown by people with years of training and experience - given how terrible people are at driving on land, I don't really want to imagine people flying little planes

  • @CascadiaAviation
    @CascadiaAviation Před 3 lety +36

    You can’t make something safe by just calling it safety. Trust has to be earned

  • @yac161
    @yac161 Před 3 lety +424

    “If you want a flying car just put some wheels on a helicopter” Elon Musk.

    • @johnluffman7954
      @johnluffman7954 Před 3 lety +8

      And a sofa

    • @liu3gz
      @liu3gz Před 3 lety +16

      and hire a pilot.

    • @nanoshka7484
      @nanoshka7484 Před 3 lety +11

      And have a few million money in your pocket

    • @TitoBobbyPh
      @TitoBobbyPh Před 3 lety +8

      That's why Musk is the most realistic visionary ever

    • @thesnare100
      @thesnare100 Před 3 lety +1

      @@nanoshka7484 I guess mass production never happened brought down the costs of helicopters. because there would be too much noise and poor traffic control since it wouldn't be guided by GPS there would be a lot of mid air collisions

  • @goudaybanana6701
    @goudaybanana6701 Před 3 lety +69

    I can’t even imagine the air traffic in the future.

    • @kyrexvision9792
      @kyrexvision9792 Před 3 lety +5

      max is right! the world will be lived like a hierarchy, the flying cars will be for middle class and first class, and the low class will still live on ground zero, you know the typical taxi drivers, dirty streets, ghettos. homes will be build up! flyings cars only make sense.

    • @Zoza15
      @Zoza15 Před 3 lety +3

      This one of many reasons of these regulations..

    • @xincerereyes8081
      @xincerereyes8081 Před 3 lety +3

      NO AIR TRAFFIC WILL BE MADE IF THEY USE MY IDEAS FOR THE TRAFFIC CONTROL ON YOUR SCREEN YOU WILL SEE VIRTUAL LANES OR TUNNELS JUST STAY IN YOUR TUNNEL TILL YOU NEED TO LAND THIS IS SOMETHING I SEEN FROM X RACERS BACK IN THE 90S X RACERS WAS GOING TO BE A RACING AIRPLANE CIRCUIT WHERE THE AIRPLANES HAD KIND OF LIKE TV SCREEN AND ON THE SCREEN WOULD BE DISPLAYED THE MAP OR COURSE OF TRAVEL YOU HAVE TO FLY THROUGH THE RINGS IT WAS ALL MADE THE PROGRAMS TO GET THIS DONE ARE OUT THERE AND HAVE BEEN OUT THERE SINCE 94 95 LOOK UP X RACERS IN POPULAR SCIENCE OR POPULAR MECHANICS MAGS FROM THAT TIMELINE YOU'LL SEE WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT FURTHERMORE YOU AREN'T GONNA FLY ANYTHING YOU GET INTO THE AIRCAR AND SAY CORTANA OR ALEXA TAKE ME TO NEW YORK CITY 5TH AND SAX AND THE CRAFT WILL TAKE OFF FLY YOU TO NEW YORK AND WAKE YOU UP WHEN YOU GET THERE IF ITS A LONG TRIP THEY CAN FLY THEMSELVES USING GOOGLE MAPS IVE HAD ALL THIS READY TO GO DON'T WORRY ILL BUILD MINE SOON IM JUST FUNDING MY STARCAR ALONE BUT IM WAY AHEAD OF THE WORLD WITH MY DESIGNS THEY USE PROPS AND ELECTRIC MOTORS I USE MICRO JET ENGINES FOR VERTICAL TAKE OF AND LIFT AND HOVER AND JET ENGINES FOR FORWARD THRUST MY FUEL SOURCE IS WATER I HAVE A MINI HYDROGEN REACTOR THAT RUNS ON TWO FREQUENCIES TO SPLIT THE WATER THROUGH ELECTROLYSIS INTO A STRONGER HYDROGEN CELL THAN YOU CAN FIND I HAVE THE BLUEPRINTS FROM THE ORIGINAL INVENTOR OF THE CAR THAT RAN ON WATER IN THE 80S MY CRAFT CANT BE BEAT AND ILL BET MY LIFE THAT IT'LL BEAT ANYONE IN ANY CONTEST WITH MY STARCAR YOUR FLYING CARS HAVE NO CHANCE AGAINST XINCERES STAR

    • @nikobelic4251
      @nikobelic4251 Před 3 lety

      @@xincerereyes8081 why in all caps?

    • @christ-is-king3268
      @christ-is-king3268 Před 3 lety

      @@nikobelic4251 😂😂 lol.

  • @NYCeesFinest
    @NYCeesFinest Před 3 lety +242

    No flying cars, no uploading my brain to a computer and living forever, and no robot girlfriends. We've achieved nothing.

    • @jpslaym0936
      @jpslaym0936 Před 3 lety +58

      my girlfriend has the personality of a PS2. Gonna call that a win

    • @dajion6
      @dajion6 Před 3 lety +7

      😂

    • @abrahkadabra9501
      @abrahkadabra9501 Před 3 lety +16

      They don't make babies in Japan anymore...because all the young men have robot girlfriends. 😨

    • @pickles_7
      @pickles_7 Před 3 lety +5

      No sword art online :I

    • @evm6177
      @evm6177 Před 3 lety +3

      - The Natural Awakening - 🍷Gautam Buddah

  • @TheMightyWej
    @TheMightyWej Před 3 lety +23

    There is no need to invent a flying car, we already have it. It's called a helicopter and all the pitfalls of what happens when one falls out of the sky above a city stays the same.

    • @capnsteele3365
      @capnsteele3365 Před 3 lety +1

      Can a helicopter fly at 500 mph no

    • @capnsteele3365
      @capnsteele3365 Před 3 lety +3

      Here's the problem we already tried helicopter mass transportation it did not work too much fuel is taken

    • @mrmercy554
      @mrmercy554 Před 3 lety +1

      Can helicopters drive can they go 200 mph I hate this argument and a average joe like me can’t afford a helicopter buddy

    • @TheMightyWej
      @TheMightyWej Před 3 lety +1

      @@capnsteele3365 So what makes you think flying the same mass at the same energy using a drone will take any less 'fuel' as you put it?

    • @Stigmaru
      @Stigmaru Před 2 lety

      It's not. EVTOLs can be designed with redundant motors and also additional aerodynamic surfaces that helicopters don't have.

  • @Vosgie88
    @Vosgie88 Před 3 lety +29

    I find it cute that Uber is talking about flying cars when they cannot even turn a profit from operating normal cars or couriers on bicycles.

    • @andrew_owens7680
      @andrew_owens7680 Před 3 lety +6

      Well of course the pilots will have to provide their own flying cars. That and slave conditions makes it provitable.

    • @davidkamen
      @davidkamen Před 3 lety

      What you say is true but cut Uber a break, they need something to hold on to while not making a profit !

    • @marinaclarasanchezsuarez2905
  • @Arezzy17
    @Arezzy17 Před 3 lety +145

    They aren’t really competing with cars or helicopters, they are competing with Zoom and Teams...

    • @treeflip7
      @treeflip7 Před 3 lety +8

      You're assuming humans want to live that way. I certainly don't.

    • @NicheAsQuiche
      @NicheAsQuiche Před 3 lety +4

      @@treeflip7 in most cases, the market/employers will prefer the cheaper option

    • @lelagrangeeffectphysics4120
      @lelagrangeeffectphysics4120 Před 3 lety +8

      @@NicheAsQuiche that is correct. Who wants to spend 20$ per day on drone rides when one can speend 5cents on electricity and and network power for a teams meeting, it just doesnt compensate, i wouldnt be surprised if the shift to telework kills this trend before it starts or relegates it to recreational use.

    • @daviewz9335
      @daviewz9335 Před 3 lety

      @@treeflip7 You say that now 😏.

    • @TB0NEx
      @TB0NEx Před 3 lety +1

      @@lelagrangeeffectphysics4120 You are assuming that people only travel when they need to meet face to face for a meeting? If that were the case the roads would already be empty

  • @paulo4371
    @paulo4371 Před 3 lety +10

    EHANG dubbed “Jetsons” is pioneering the urban autonomous drones. Now they are permitted and licensed to deliver packages in China (all of that flight hours of data) will put them ahead of everyone.

  • @yesjoeri1
    @yesjoeri1 Před 3 lety +12

    basically all these developers are working tirelessly to serve a few rich people

    • @user-lr6hw4dq4t
      @user-lr6hw4dq4t Před 2 lety +1

      Same as airplane at their first age,they just for rich people, then technology become cheaper.

    • @Stigmaru
      @Stigmaru Před 2 lety

      same as every product in the world. someone's gotta pay for initial R&D cost

  • @zvndmvn
    @zvndmvn Před 3 lety +36

    Why don't any of these have a protective mesh around the propellers? One bird strike and you're going down.

    • @thesnare100
      @thesnare100 Před 3 lety +15

      because they spin so fast, they'll reduce the bird to cole slaw.........no worries there, cept the mess :)

    • @chrisjenkins9978
      @chrisjenkins9978 Před 3 lety +4

      @@thesnare100 - No, more like a little-bird-smoothie. 😂🤣😂

    • @NarenBRao
      @NarenBRao Před 3 lety +12

      Which in turn should make us think about the devastating effects such flying cars might have on birds. They're already being assaulted by various factors. Elon Musk was right to concentrate on underground transportation which is basically a lifeless mass we could use for building tunnels through.

    • @thesnare100
      @thesnare100 Před 3 lety +3

      @@NarenBRao I think pollution/acid rain kills more. How many birds do die of collisions with aircraft? Do you eat poultry?

    • @thesnare100
      @thesnare100 Před 3 lety

      @@NarenBRao for tunnels what about if there's an earthquake/shifts the tunnel, which will eventually happen, however long it takes, then they will have to be rebuilt/modifier, but that's unavoidable.

  • @juniornutshell
    @juniornutshell Před 3 lety +112

    So in Beijing, you get off a high speed train, then go underground to a thorough low speed train network for your destination. Can you imagine the swarms of aircraft blacking out the sun if everyone in Beijing flew?!

    • @zhuolixie5922
      @zhuolixie5922 Před 3 lety +6

      Well, at least for the next several years, it will not happen en masse

    • @goigle
      @goigle Před 3 lety +1

      This won't be for the average person, this will be for execs etc at first. Think about your daily life and how many helipads you're near, for most people that's going to be near 0. Execs / corporate people in high rises are much closer to helipads and can benefit more from this time saving.

    • @juniornutshell
      @juniornutshell Před 3 lety +6

      @@zhuolixie5922 PRC airspace already congested with regular aircraft

    • @madsam0320
      @madsam0320 Před 3 lety +2

      China can modernise the air traffic control system.
      The current system is conventional, using paper strips, keeping aircraft two minutes from each other.
      A super computer virtual system can pack the air space tightly, maybe even making the pilots relinquishing control to the computers in congested spaces.
      Also the PLA Air Force is hogging too much air space. There’s no real needs for them to do so, considering they only need to patrol the borders and train in remote places. Other advanced countries airforce don’t hog air space and China is not like few decades before with not much civilian planes competing for air space.

    • @mrpandupatel
      @mrpandupatel Před 3 lety

      That's why they are making artificial sun literally.

  • @ivanbliminse4325
    @ivanbliminse4325 Před 3 lety +15

    It would be easier to put wheels on a helicopter than wings on a car

  • @pierrefave8811
    @pierrefave8811 Před 3 lety +11

    Why do they call an actual helicopter, or big drone a flying car just to make it more disruptive ? Just rich people dreaming of a bladerunner-like future…

  • @BlunderMunchkin
    @BlunderMunchkin Před 3 lety +10

    Vast noise pollution, lower safety margins, and greater energy cost. Of course people will want to own one.

  • @m.j.p.9379
    @m.j.p.9379 Před 3 lety +14

    ehang already has a commercial product and is selling it already, the are clearly leading that branch

    • @qizhang4077
      @qizhang4077 Před 3 lety +1

      China's strongest will be Geely and BYD.

  • @Nyruami
    @Nyruami Před 3 lety +2

    Maybe you should also have reported that Velocopter tried to register their product and every single air transport authority in the world told them "No". They are allowed to register the Velocopter as a helicopter but that means you need a helicopter license to run those things, you are only allowed to start and land from registered helipads, and of course, you are fully under the authority of your local air transport authority which simply means that you aren´t allowed to do anything at your own, you need to file each flight at least 30 minutes prior to the planned starting time, you need to file your landing point, the way you want to take and you have to observe all no-fly zones.
    So no leisurely lifting off whenever you want, no going wherever you want, no landing wherever you want, they understood that their product would be useless if registered as a helicopter because it´s more expensive than a helicopter, has far less range, is slower, so nobody with a helicopter license would ever buy it. That´s why the Velocopter meanwhile is finished and ready to mass-produce for over 8 years, and still doesn´t exist, which will never change. Air transport authorities like the NTSB or the EATA are pretty proud that air travel is as safe as it is, they will not allow cowboys with drones to fly in their airspace. Never.

  • @TheArfdog
    @TheArfdog Před 2 lety +1

    Mechanical engineer here. There is no way flying cars will be viable anytime soon, not until we have full automation and abundant energy.
    1. Energy: To fly takes much more energy than rolling around on paved roads.
    2. Safety: Flyers will have to be *much more trained (expensive licensing) vs drivers. And crashes are a little more serious from hundreds of feet at high speed.
    3. Cargo: Cannot carry nearly as much cargo/passengers in a flying vehicle vs ground vehicle.... goes back to energy required being much greater.

  • @pisse3000
    @pisse3000 Před 3 lety +10

    Or we could just keep working from home and cut the commute altogether

    • @lgtvstick368
      @lgtvstick368 Před 3 lety

      Whenever they invent the "FoodTeletrasporter" we could all stay working from home, till then, your food has to still arrive through a long commute!

  • @derekbirmingham9534
    @derekbirmingham9534 Před 3 lety +11

    I wonder why they dont use hydrogen? A hydrogen drone can fly for 4 hours, electric drones can only for 30 minutes.

    • @MP-wt9kz
      @MP-wt9kz Před 3 lety

      HIgher risk of an
      explosion?

  • @raymondhuot1684
    @raymondhuot1684 Před 3 lety +5

    A factor that is always overlooked is the sound pollution ! Is there anyone willing to have a whirling machine passing over his house ? It will have to be addressed and restrained to certain location. The myth of a flyIng car landing in front of a suburban house is unreal !

    • @timothytikker1147
      @timothytikker1147 Před 7 měsíci

      The Samson Switchblade flying car, which had its first test flight last week, was designed to have a quieter motor, so as to address the problem you cite. Besides that, while it can be parked in a garage at home, it needs to take off from an airport, so would be driven to one instead of taking off from home.

  • @Wildminecraftwolf
    @Wildminecraftwolf Před 3 lety +24

    eh i had to do a 3/D mouth facial animation thing in uni and the quote i chose to do it to was "Where We’re Going, We Won’t Need Roads" seeing the title triggered ptsd.

  • @ljr1200
    @ljr1200 Před 3 lety +20

    Uber has always excelled in developing innovative animations...

  • @offwhitemke
    @offwhitemke Před 3 lety +38

    The total capacity to transport passengers with these small vehicles is severely limited. I just don't see how it would be feasible. What is far more likely is a network of tunnels (above and below ground) which can move hundreds of people at a time without concern about rain or snow. Safely maintaining hundreds of flying vehicles would be labor intensive and also very difficult. And the cost of a single crash would likely unrecoverable. I'd feel much safer in a light train in an enclosed tunnel. It will be far less labor intensive to maintain and the risk of death is much lower. If the train loses power it simply slows down and comes to a stop. That is hard to compare to the outcome of a flying vehicle going over a populated city. This may be a fine option for a small number of people, but it just won't work for mass transit. And without a lot of repeat customers I do not see how it can be funded.

    • @catwhisperer9524
      @catwhisperer9524 Před 2 lety +2

      *Elon steps in the room with his Boring Company

    • @KCJbomberFTW
      @KCJbomberFTW Před 2 lety +1

      I think these will work in tandem with tunnels for certain situations such as landing on towers or leaving an urban area and flying directly to a suburban area where tunnels are compromised

    • @zaysview8095
      @zaysview8095 Před 2 lety +1

      Much easier to make these cars . Cost efficiency will win and fuel

    • @bumshka21
      @bumshka21 Před rokem

      Same thing could be said of the Model T

    • @marinaclarasanchezsuarez2905
      @marinaclarasanchezsuarez2905 Před rokem

      @@KCJbomberFTW It already existe ....helicópteros😄👍

  • @schylerlewis8467
    @schylerlewis8467 Před 3 lety +28

    One word brings this to a full stop. Safety. Not happening any time soon

    • @tdgdbs1
      @tdgdbs1 Před 3 lety +10

      Only feasible if completely autonomous without any human's input.

    • @mandelbrot4632
      @mandelbrot4632 Před 3 lety +6

      Right, as well as noise pollution. A small drone produces already annoying sounds, not to imagine these 18 rotor megadrones. Noone wants this in an already noisy city, this cannot be the future. The future has to be a less noisy city with overall less stress factors.

    • @schylerlewis8467
      @schylerlewis8467 Před 3 lety +3

      @@mandelbrot4632 I don't think anything in this video was actually well thought out or researched. A drone is a broad term for many unmanned vehicles. Ultimately this is a quadcopter not a drone. And those annoying drone motors when scaled are SO much louder.

  • @timothytikker1147
    @timothytikker1147 Před 7 měsíci

    The Samson Switchblade flying car had its first test flight last week (November 2023). It's a sports car with wings for flight that fold into the body/fuselage for driving. It can be parked at home, then driven to a community airport for takeoff, land at another community airport, then be driven from there to the final destination. Range is c. 400-450 miles, top flight speed 200 MPH, cruising speed 160 MPH. The design incorporates measures to reduce engine noise as much as possible.

  • @freetolook3727
    @freetolook3727 Před 3 lety +11

    We can't drive cars, what makes you think we can drive flying cars?

    • @mizzypoo4827
      @mizzypoo4827 Před 3 lety

      Specially some idiot son/daughter decide to joyride on daddy flying car, High on drug or drunk... Suddenly decide to land on your head.😲-->💀--->👻

    • @thatssomewackshitbro8617
      @thatssomewackshitbro8617 Před 3 lety +2

      Probably AI driven

  • @ranwest2213
    @ranwest2213 Před 3 lety +3

    Why so much talk about moving around the dense urban cores? That is not where these are required! The one to two hour travel gap around the city center is the market for this. Bypassing all that traffic would be a huge incentive.

    • @marcv2648
      @marcv2648 Před 3 lety

      This has been my thought for a long time. The time and effort cost in a city is just way too high. It's not going to be worth all the trouble unless you are going to save an hour minimum, which includes transport to and from your eVTOL location.
      The time and trouble is too high for relatively short trips even if price doesn't matter.

  • @glennalexon1530
    @glennalexon1530 Před 2 lety +1

    Bloomberg is the new Popular Mechanics. Next month: 10 Best Screwdrivers!

  • @justacrow9847
    @justacrow9847 Před 3 lety +6

    When millions of these are mass produced, they're gonna zigzag above our heads in the cities and in the country side. They be loud and the more there is, the more malfunctions and drops down on homes and on people. What madness is that? How about high speed electric trains to take the passengers around the crowded cities? Safe, quiet and clean.

    • @vice.nor.virtue
      @vice.nor.virtue Před 3 lety

      People said very very similar things about cars and trains, and in some ways they were correct. But these forms of transportation were a necessary revolution. Drones are arguably the same in that regard......and yes, 'murica does absolutely need rail investment.

    • @odomisan
      @odomisan Před 3 lety +1

      Finally a sound comment from the sea of dumb comment section.

    • @odomisan
      @odomisan Před 3 lety

      @@vice.nor.virtue Umm...no. not the same at all. Vehicles that are grounded at the very least, they are only a few inches away from the ground. Cars have rubber tires and brakes. There is no stopping a drone from gravity.

  • @masonvespa4077
    @masonvespa4077 Před 3 lety +6

    Korean goverment giving them permmision to fly a car.
    Korean goverment secretly asking for two 911 rescue teams to come just in case

  • @sukran96
    @sukran96 Před 3 lety +14

    We don’t need flying car any more, we have already learned to do everything from our living room thanks to pandemic 😷

  • @TraderJason1
    @TraderJason1 Před 3 lety +11

    “The horse is here to stay but the automobile is only a novelty - a fad.” - 1903: President of the Michigan Savings Bank advising Henry Ford’s lawyer, Horace Rackham, not to invest in the Ford Motor Company.

  • @alvarortega2
    @alvarortega2 Před 3 lety +6

    Unless business travel (to subsidize it) comes back, like the Renaissance of supersonic flying described a few weeks ago, this (also) is going nowhere...

  • @Gazzapa57
    @Gazzapa57 Před 3 lety +12

    The Ehang is the coolest looking one but Volocopter appears to be the safest.

  • @rehanansar8858
    @rehanansar8858 Před 3 lety +4

    By the time it'll reach to ordinary people, it'd acquire the shape of current transport mode.

  • @Alesscamera
    @Alesscamera Před 3 lety +6

    The Ehang looks so cool!

  • @ittastelikekool-aid7483
    @ittastelikekool-aid7483 Před 3 lety +3

    This is not a flying car, it's basically a helicopter with four wheels. In order to have a real flying car, you need to conquer levitation like the DeLorean Doc Brown designed in Back to the Future.

  • @joetheperformer
    @joetheperformer Před 3 lety +3

    Imagine regulating 3-dimensional 5 o’clock traffic. Fuck, that’ll be something else...

  • @dummyxl
    @dummyxl Před 3 lety +6

    If everyone is moving through air, there's no need for roads anymore. The world can be more compact and green.
    A man can dream.

    • @khez_
      @khez_ Před 3 lety +1

      Can build a city based on flying cars. Would be beautiful.

  • @PTExp
    @PTExp Před 3 lety +12

    Great video. I'd suggest losing the little chime in the video, it makes people look for notifications on all their devices and is a bit annoying.

  • @sreekarpradyumna
    @sreekarpradyumna Před 3 lety +13

    Yup. I bet they'll be super quiet and not deafening at all.

    • @manusharma3601
      @manusharma3601 Před 3 lety +2

      Yeah just like present day traffic is so quiet

    • @manusharma3601
      @manusharma3601 Před 3 lety

      @Bruh Moment yeah it's comparable. Come to New York once and you'll wish to spend your life near a small town airport

    • @manusharma3601
      @manusharma3601 Před 3 lety

      @Bruh Moment distance mattere mate! Real traffic is feets away from you while the drones and planes are flying hundreds of feets in the sky. Anyway, if it does turn out to be a real problem, people will simply not adopt the technologies. We have rejected many technologies before because they weren't comfortable enough

    • @manusharma3601
      @manusharma3601 Před 3 lety

      @Bruh Moment you are really trying to compare noise made by jets to that made by drones?

  • @anthonystone2089
    @anthonystone2089 Před 3 lety +3

    Anti gravity floating cars have not been invented. Automated drones is the best we can do at the moment.

  • @marco.nascimento
    @marco.nascimento Před 3 lety +18

    It's quite challenging because the whole infrastructure of cities will have to adapt to this new reality.

    • @fobudomh
      @fobudomh Před 3 lety +1

      Privacy and security risks also needs to be assessed. Who is stopping them in bumping into someone's private property or trespassing a government property.

    • @zacsstevens
      @zacsstevens Před 3 lety +1

      Agreed - we’re a long way off this being a reality. Not because we can’t have flying drone taxis, but more because of the infastructure, weather conditions, gov regulations, etc...

    • @julwiezdeghorz5089
      @julwiezdeghorz5089 Před 3 lety +2

      Agree, imagine a flying Aventador and flying Vanquish collided, the impact would be great and those flying cars will be thrown right into the buildings nearby and boom!

    • @odomisan
      @odomisan Před 3 lety +1

      True. They need reinforced canopy to protect them from all these dropping from the sky.

    • @odomisan
      @odomisan Před 3 lety +1

      @@zacsstevens Have you seen how cab drivers drive? And if you research why there are regulations, you can only be thankful to have them.

  • @BuildingCenter
    @BuildingCenter Před 3 lety +1

    Tiny great thing: Beeps when names are on screen. Thanks. Some intern whose attention drifts realized a way to ensure refocusing among the portion of the audience who might also look away, get distracted, start a separate project, while learning about our shared skycar future.

  • @chraosta
    @chraosta Před 2 lety +1

    The amount of people thinking that regular citizens would be piloting these is insane... They're most likely gonna be all autopilot with a certified pilot on board just in case of emergency, smh

  • @dalemurray4083
    @dalemurray4083 Před 3 lety +16

    We've had flying cars for a century, they're called AIRPLANES!!!

    • @nikobelic4251
      @nikobelic4251 Před 3 lety +2

      Not really, too complex for the average person to use with no training, unable to land in tight areas, too noisy, pollutes too much. I LOVE planes they are my reason to live but an Airplane is not a flying car.

    • @dalemurray4083
      @dalemurray4083 Před 3 lety

      @@nikobelic4251 If you compare a modern car to a model A Ford. it wasn't a car either. Transmission types, Parking, handling, cupholders etc,,, are details. the essential function is a means of transport, and an airplane is a flying means of transport.

    • @nikobelic4251
      @nikobelic4251 Před 3 lety

      @@dalemurray4083 a modern car is magnitudes times closer to a 1900s Ford than to even a Cessna 152 let alone a Commercial Airliner.

    • @dalemurray4083
      @dalemurray4083 Před 3 lety

      @@nikobelic4251 So how many of those differences are because a "car" is controlled and operated in 2 distentions and a Airplane is operated and controlled in 3 dimensions?
      A flying car will have to operate in 3 dimensions too. If those differences are what make an airplane essentially different from a car, then the entire concept of a Flying Car is impossible.

    • @nikobelic4251
      @nikobelic4251 Před 3 lety +1

      @@dalemurray4083 no, you said “we already have flying cars they are called airplanes”
      Which I completely disagreed with
      These are not planes
      Planes are fixed wings, require runways, are far more complicate to operate and require more space.
      EVTOLS/ Flying Cars ≠ Airplanes

  • @bogtrotter5110
    @bogtrotter5110 Před 3 lety +15

    Whenever I hear the words price point, instead of price, my scam radar goes off.

    • @almerindaromeira8352
      @almerindaromeira8352 Před 3 lety +3

      It's marketing buzzword BS like integrated, blockchain, machine learning, disruptive and many more

    • @drescherjm
      @drescherjm Před 3 lety

      When I hear the words price point it likely means me as a member of the middle class can't afford it.

  • @gordonpreete3019
    @gordonpreete3019 Před 3 lety +1

    Just seeing videos and where things are at on the flying car ideal is very interesting. So give what their doing 10 to 20 years into the future and flying vehicles could be more widely in use, but time will tell.

  • @kalukutta
    @kalukutta Před 3 lety +1

    We need minimum transportation of any type.
    For that we need homes near our work place.
    For that to happen we don't need city centres, business parks or industrial areas.
    Cities should be planned accordingly

  • @lordlee6473
    @lordlee6473 Před 3 lety +6

    There won’t be any flying car until a new energy source is discovered

  • @newstheydidnttellus2982
    @newstheydidnttellus2982 Před 3 lety +7

    1990s was a great decade.

  • @jollybee3432
    @jollybee3432 Před 3 lety +2

    A captain of a space station screaming " I don't see any flying cars! WHY!? WHY!? WHY!?" made me spit my coffee 😂😂

  • @nunstersplace
    @nunstersplace Před 3 lety

    They need to make quick change battery packs for cars. You would pull into a station, battery pack would be pulled out, a recharged battery pack would be put back into your car and you pay for the service and you keep on driving your car with a recharged battery pack.

  • @robertlee8805
    @robertlee8805 Před 3 lety +9

    Looking for HYPERLOOP for HIGH-SPEED state to state travel just under 15 minutes instead if hours.

    • @samuelthornton9179
      @samuelthornton9179 Před 3 lety +2

      Hyperloops will never happen.

    • @MSaleh-vy8rr
      @MSaleh-vy8rr Před 3 lety +1

      Hyperloop is a very ambitious project but might not happen.

    • @GotEmAll1337
      @GotEmAll1337 Před 3 lety +2

      Just type in that search box up there: Thunderf00t hyperloop....then prepare to have your bubble burst.

    • @nikobelic4251
      @nikobelic4251 Před 3 lety

      @@GotEmAll1337 yup lol

  • @damnperrys1
    @damnperrys1 Před 3 lety +3

    My biggest concern is that most folks are unable to drive a vehicle safely on the ground. I can only imagine the troubles caused when these folks are able to fly!

    • @JJs_playground
      @JJs_playground Před 3 lety +5

      Consumers will not be flying these drones. Initially it will be licensed pilots flying them and eventually they will be autonomous

    • @yuliu6175
      @yuliu6175 Před 3 lety

      autopilot could solve that

    • @nikobelic4251
      @nikobelic4251 Před 3 lety +1

      @@yuliu6175 it wouldn’t be autopilot it would be AI
      Autopilot ≠ AI

    • @jv-lk7bc
      @jv-lk7bc Před 3 lety

      @@yuliu6175 yep, because that worked out so well for Boeing...

  • @StephenSmith304
    @StephenSmith304 Před 3 lety +2

    This video will surely age well.

  • @AB-wf8ek
    @AB-wf8ek Před 3 lety

    Makes me think of Roberto Santos-Dumont, he would fly to dinner from his Paris apartment in a personal dirigible. He expected flight would be common transportation and hoped travel would lead to a more peaceful world. When he learned planes were being used for the first time during WWI he became depressed at the thought of his dream turned into a nightmare and later committed suicide.

  • @the_freedom_quest
    @the_freedom_quest Před 3 lety +5

    Ehang is by far the most promising one.

  • @dru4670
    @dru4670 Před 3 lety +9

    Flying car = helicopter

  • @samuelyuri645
    @samuelyuri645 Před 3 lety

    Interesting. Hope they can start it soon.

  • @ethanf.6848
    @ethanf.6848 Před 3 lety +1

    For mass market adoption, it should be flight by electromagnetic levitation where vehicles are constrained to travel along fixed roadways and not these "helicopters" with redundant rotors.

  • @johnl.7754
    @johnl.7754 Před 3 lety +7

    I think for mass market flying cars that it has to be AI controlled for safety reasons. Human reaction and control is not developed enough and the damage is too great with accidents.

    • @joedockstader1347
      @joedockstader1347 Před 3 lety

      You're not wrong, but you're conflating two separate subjects. Multirotor aircraft require computer stabilization for any kind of controlled flight, because of the incredible reaction times required to keep them stable. That's not, however, why they need to be flown entirely autonomously. The reason for that is much more to do with human judgement and decision-making than reaction time or skill.

    • @nikobelic4251
      @nikobelic4251 Před 3 lety

      @@joedockstader1347 there is also 0 way to train hundreds of thousands to millions of people to handle these things on a day to day basis.
      Most people can’t even afford a PPl can you imagine if they had to get an Instrument rating to fly when visibility was low....?
      I think the big ones (the ones more like flying buses) will keep a pilot on board the other ones that have 4 seats and less will not have a pilot, only the passengers.

  • @koolzdude
    @koolzdude Před 3 lety +5

    People can’t drive these day let alone flying

  • @somechannel5151
    @somechannel5151 Před 2 lety

    maybe only make flying cars a thing when we have giant, above the clouds type buildings. Between buildings there could be designated driving airspace, with some sort of lights to indicate the driving area. (Or maybe transparent screens on the cars windshield that show you the driving area limits) There could be side entrances to parking lots in the driving spaces for the flying cars.

  • @ejpmonline
    @ejpmonline Před 3 lety

    EVs on the roads and EVTOLs on the sky... Amazing. :)

  • @Telencephelon
    @Telencephelon Před 3 lety +3

    But they are not silent either. None of the videos has ever actually shown real footage. A Dji Drone is already considerably loud

  • @nayemhere1
    @nayemhere1 Před 3 lety +16

    yes we got "flying cars"
    but they got big wings, jet's and they're shaped like "plane"🥴

  • @historry9323
    @historry9323 Před 3 lety +1

    When a guy says the sky is going to be full anytime soon you know it's best not to step in any craft his hands worked on, lol

  • @dantompkins2584
    @dantompkins2584 Před 3 lety

    I would love to have this in the future

  • @nathandecena7694
    @nathandecena7694 Před 3 lety +6

    You know they must be completely autonomous otherwise we'll have raining cars (not ignoring that still accidents could happen) 😟

  • @tejt7305
    @tejt7305 Před 3 lety +3

    I think the future lies in the British 1950's Fairey Rotodyne which could go straight up and down, hover and then fly with the efficiency of a plane. It had thousands of test hours, could carry 40-48 and was completely successful but was scrapped due to politics.
    For some specs: Speed = 343 km/h; Range = 724 km

  • @darioinfini
    @darioinfini Před 3 lety +1

    Check back in 10 years. See how this video aged. I can tell you right now how it's going to age.

  • @brianjennings7644
    @brianjennings7644 Před 3 lety +1

    Google Maps directed me to a non-existent Dollar Tree yesterday.. (even had 60+ reviews.. not been a store there in 15 yrs).
    .. now, who's gonna insure a flying car? twice.?

  • @wiizyu
    @wiizyu Před 3 lety +4

    I hate the noise already

  • @peterk3474
    @peterk3474 Před 3 lety +4

    I hope this never developes. Imagine having a continual stream of helicopters over you.

    • @gabefimbres
      @gabefimbres Před 3 lety +1

      I imagine people living in cities before the automobile said the same when comparing a car to a horse. Which is one reason we have noise ordinances in cities because cars can be loud to.

    • @odomisan
      @odomisan Před 3 lety +1

      it's not the flying ones you need to worry about. Its the ones that are falling towards you.

    • @jv-lk7bc
      @jv-lk7bc Před 3 lety

      @@gabefimbres they didn't have cities of the kind we know before the automobile. and a flyer is massively different from the change from horse to car. When we're all flying ostriches (or dragons) to work, then there will be a parallel.

  • @yukmingchen6334
    @yukmingchen6334 Před 3 lety +1

    It is no surprise, any air plane must be able to drive before it can fly.

  • @thesnare100
    @thesnare100 Před 3 lety +2

    What about Cabin and storage space in the vehicle? Some of these are so small, you couldn't even bring a suitcase, never mind go on a family journey to uncle ralph's 400 miles away for Thanksgiving.

  • @MSaleh-vy8rr
    @MSaleh-vy8rr Před 3 lety +7

    "The Rise of EVTOL transportation aircraft"
    See I fixed the title. There's no flying cars, and the thing about scifi movies show those vehicles to have a fictional propulsion system like anti-gravity. We don't have that, and propellers are too loud.

  • @moe2579
    @moe2579 Před 3 lety +3

    Flying car would’ve to be autonomous And each vehicle needs to be able to communicate with each other. Otherwise if it crashes you die or fall to your death.

    • @odomisan
      @odomisan Před 3 lety

      and the driver must qualify from a rigorous pilot training as a backup to the autonomous function.

  • @doubled6419
    @doubled6419 Před 3 lety

    Wow it's about time

  • @alexshi9320
    @alexshi9320 Před 3 lety +1

    EHang was the first company I saw release manned flight tests

  • @babylebron6119
    @babylebron6119 Před 3 lety +9

    The problem with flying is the high energy needed to overcome gravity 🥱 flying is an economic disaster

    • @thecarman3693
      @thecarman3693 Před 3 lety +1

      Yes.
      Just staying in place requires the equivalent power output to horizontally accelerate the vehicle to 60 mph in about 2.5 seconds. Continuously.

    • @jestes7
      @jestes7 Před 3 lety

      Not only that, but sound will always be an issue

  • @mariocomparan5473
    @mariocomparan5473 Před 3 lety +6

    "we are living in the future" i have to stop this video

  • @joshuapatrick682
    @joshuapatrick682 Před rokem +1

    This is an interesting piece of tech that will only ever be a novelty owned by retired pro athletes. There cannot be a scenario where this is adopted on any scale that is meaningful to its purported goal. It would be carnage raining from the sky and everyone would be walking around in fear that they’d be the next one to get taken out by one of these nightmares crashing into them outside or even in their house. If anyone does adopt this it would have to be so extremely limited

  • @raviteza8
    @raviteza8 Před 3 lety +1

    The presenter is wrong , we wont shift the congestion from road to air, but from 2D to 3D. In other words we reduce the congestion.

  • @LucGendrot
    @LucGendrot Před 3 lety +8

    "The next natural step...[is flying cars]" uhhhhh....no? The next natural step is better investment in public transportation? The heck?

    • @capnsteele3365
      @capnsteele3365 Před 3 lety +3

      Flying cars are for rich people

    • @jv-lk7bc
      @jv-lk7bc Před 3 lety

      @@capnsteele3365 which they already have. so why we even talking about it?

  • @jhill4874
    @jhill4874 Před 3 lety +3

    IMO it's not a flying car if it requires an airport to take off and land.

    • @odomisan
      @odomisan Před 3 lety

      when you get to your senses and realize that most people already fail at driving, you can only be thankful that these things are restricted.

  • @MinhTran-wn1ri
    @MinhTran-wn1ri Před 3 lety

    It has to start with a network of cooperative, self-driving, electric cars to eliminate inefficiencies w/ and inherent danger of having people behind the wheel. This development to coincide with modernized road infrastructure: decongestion-algorithms, smart traffic lights, roads which communicate traffic throughput and safety status with these autonomous cars. Anything that can compete with the fuel-guzzling airbuses (i.e., electric high-speed locomotion, high-speed carpool lanes for autonomous EVs) for domestic intercontinental transit will also have a future. VTOL will probably only develop so far as to replace conventional helos for niche urban applications (at least, until the next breakthrough in battery tech to extend its range and performance).

  • @rosemariehomeyerbente1832

    Wonderful!

  • @user-fu3hn2wl3u
    @user-fu3hn2wl3u Před 3 lety +4

    This paragraph is three years ahead of all companies. Technology, safety and government cooperation were achieved. There's a year left. Buy ehang before flying up like Tesla.

  • @asheru9254
    @asheru9254 Před 3 lety +4

    Small helicopters

  • @uramura9368
    @uramura9368 Před 2 lety

    Finaly, we were so lost without flying cars, and other tech toys.

  • @abrahkadabra9501
    @abrahkadabra9501 Před 3 lety +1

    If the COVID -19 pandemic did anything it was to show everyone that working and studying online from home is not only possible, in some cases it's the better option. I totally get the need for human interaction but we're a very adaptable species. The Internet is the flying car's biggest threat.