• R0cket_M00se@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    7 people probably died in car accidents in the last hour, I guess cars are too dangerous to drive too.

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          1 year ago

          We’re not talking about bicycles here. Try to pay attention to the conversation.

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            1 year ago

            Parent comments were talking about the dangers of air taxis, helicopters, and cars. Why are bikes suddenly off limits?

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              1 year ago

              Do you really need to have it explained to you how bicycles have nothing to do with this conversation? Lmao

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      1 year ago

      That’s a pretty good argument for why flying cars is a pretty stupid idea.  all the dangers of a regular car accident plus the several hundred or several thousand feet crash to the ground, and then all of the bloody, fiery horror of a second collision at that time. 

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        1 year ago

        Please explain to me how this type of aircraft is any more vulnerable to crashing or pilot error than any other.

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          1 year ago

          There would be many more of them in a small area and it’s a completely new type of flight system with which zero people have any type of flight experience. Not to mention the total lack of an air traffic control system and the fact that the risk of a crash is already pretty high.

          That’s plenty right there.

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            1 year ago

            Are we talking about eVTOL aviation technology in general or this specific airframe and idea? I’m not claiming this specific design is good or the use case is where we should be spending our R&D time on this tech.

            What I am saying is that 90% of the responses in here amount to “this is dumb because rich people will use it, build trains.” If that’s the best we can’t expect from the dedicated technology community on this website it’s going to go nowhere fast.

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              1 year ago

              We’re not talking about the design of the aircraft at all, and this has nothing to do with the other responses. Are you even paying attention?