Friday, July 27, 2018

Flying Cars?

For example, if you see the small 4, 6 or 8 propeller drones, they have so much "automatic" or artificial intelligence if you will programmed in, that imagine a little drone human sized. Now imagine yourself in the cockpit of something like this where you might take off using only your cellphone. Basically you could tell it when to take off and when to land. The problem would be navigating air traffic with it. But, that might be done automatically through software too.

My biggest concern at present regarding something like this would be Electromagnetic pulses. Unless you have a way of landing this thing yourself in an emergency (I can land a plane and not everyone can). And fool can take off a plane as a pilot but it takes some real skill to land a plane. Why?

Because the winds are usually blowing which means any direction the wind is blowing your plane is blowing too. So, unless you know how to compensate for this you might not be able to land a plane unless it is still outside with no winds at all and that almost never happens.

A good pilot can land a plane with winds from any direction up to 20 or 30 mph (he or she needs to know the direction those winds are blowing and at what speed usually to have a safe landing). However in an emergency all sorts of things might be possible.

For example, a guy landed his plane on a busy city street today somewhere in the U.S. and didn't crash and the plane was still intact.

So, my point is, if things go sideways with the control system on your flying car you better either have a parachute for you and everyone else on board and be high enough to use them or you are going to go splat and that's it. or you better be good at gliding the thing in and be given controls to do just that or you go splat and that's all she wrote.

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