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    Well, the street I live on, is basically a drag strip so..

    Remember those cars that went in the water?


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    Well, the street I live on, is basically a drag strip so..
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    Quote Originally Posted by whirlerz View Post
    Well, the street I live on, is basically a drag strip so..

    Remember those cars that went in the water?
    I know of them. I don’t remember them - the Amphibicar was well before my time.



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    Argo ATVs, though ours were older and not quite as sleek looking. Never really trusted them… they felt iffy at best. Fortunately for me, they didn’t sink. Especially since I was 18 before I learned how to swim.
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    While flying cars are launched every now and then, I don't see them commercially realistic until the vehicle (or aircraft?) is fully autonomous. And that's still some years into the future.
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    Quote Originally Posted by kimbe View Post
    While flying cars are launched every now and then, I don't see them commercially realistic until the vehicle (or aircraft?) is fully autonomous. And that's still some years into the future.
    100% agree. For a country which has had car culture longer than anyone, you’d think we had it down pat. No, if you take these jackasses we have on the road and put them in the air, it’s going to be disastrous. I’m actually looking forward to automation, because this is a nation of people who collectively can’t drive worth a fuck. And we really have no excuse. I did an overseas AT in Korea one year when I was in the Army Reserve, and the drivers there were absolutely horrible. But I could at least somewhat understand why. Especially these Hyundai dump trucks people stationed there called “Terminators”. You really had to watch out fir those. Encountered one which came around a curve too fast, swung out into my lane, and forced me to ditch a Humvee.

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    1 because this is a nation of people who collectively can’t drive worth a fuck.
    It is not just driving.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AChildOfBoredom View Post
    I know of them. I don’t remember them - the Amphibicar was well before my time.






    Argo ATVs, though ours were older and not quite as sleek looking. Never really trusted them… they felt iffy at best. Fortunately for me, they didn’t sink. Especially since I was 18 before I learned how to swim.
    I saw one of those drive into a lake.

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    When I was but a stripling, there was this dude named Paul Moller that invented the "Moller Volantor" that we all were hoping would start the flying car era. All bullshit apparently.

    http://https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moller_M400_Skycar
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    Quote Originally Posted by kimbe View Post
    While flying cars are launched every now and then, I don't see them commercially realistic until the vehicle (or aircraft?) is fully autonomous. And that's still some years into the future.
    Yeah, and that's not going to happen for 200 years. I have a story that features flying cars (well, flying Vehicles, anyway, I don't know if you'd call them cars, they don't LOOK like cars, they're very Aerodynamic), and they are fully Autonomous. All you have to do is sit in them and they fly you wherever you want to go. By themselves. You are correct, I believe. I wouldn't trust a Dudette or Dude to even be able to land and get refueled.

    It's set maybe 300 years in the Future, I never specify, upon reflection. I had to check, but I don't say what year it is. Maybe I should have, but I didn't. This one is an early one, published in a magazine, not a book. When i was making my bones.
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    I did get to go on a Duck (DUKW) tour in Boston. That was well worth it.



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    Wasn't there a drowning, one sank or something not too long ago?


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    I think there has been more than one.

    https://abc7news.com/a-timeline-of-d...dents/3793587/

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    Sure, there are accidents with them. But for every one of the headlines in that link, how many tours went off without a hitch? It’s just like with flying. An airliner crashes, its going to typically be 100+ fatalities. Yet, statistically, flying is much, much safer than driving. So yes, things happen sometimes with these, as they do with every form of transportation. There’ve been deaths on roller coasters, yet people still ride them. There’ve been death due to train derailments, air crashes, auto accidents, horseback riding, boating, etc. Yet, people still do these things.

    I remember TruTV had a show called 1,000 Ways To Die. Some of the stories were pretty wild, but others were mundane things you really wouldn’t expect to lead to someone’s death, amd some were freak accidents. So people read articles like that one posted, and they withdraw further into their bubble, completely oblivious that they take equal or much greater risks every day without giving it a second thought.
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    Do you really want George Jetson flying you? If we get flying cars, we all have to really learn how to fly them. It's just a plane that looks like a car (which is a stupid thing, it needs to be Aerodynamic, you can't fly a Buick through the air, it's shape needs to cut through the air, and a Buick won't cut that, it's a BOX with wheels).

    If you want to do that you need either a conical front or something that is flat (Probably Conical is better, like a Jet). But they won't look like cars. Trust me, I know I beat this into the ground, but I'm a Science Fiction writer, I've thought about this a lot.
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    And yet, this still flew

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    Quote Originally Posted by AChildOfBoredom View Post
    And yet, this still flew

    Wow. That thing's a monster!
    What the mfg of that?


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    This flying car is nothing more than press material. We'll have them someday. Maybe not in our lifetimes, but in the lifetimes of our descendants. And that's OK.
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    And yet, this still flew

    How fast? You wanna hit Europe better go smaller.
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    Wow. That thing's a monster!
    What the mfg of that?
    It’s the Super Guppy, which was built from a heavily modified airliner and used to carry components of space rockets.

    Airbus has a more modern one

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    Pretty stupid looking, and probably goes slow. You wanna take your family to Burger King, you gotta do better than that, Child. No offense. We are talking about a CAR. That's the whole point of this thread. I'm not talking about some passenger airplane, I'm talking about something akin to an SUV. Something a family might use to hit McDonalds. Just a normal thing that sits in the Garage.

    We don't have those yet. They exist in my mind, but not in the real world, not yet.

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