BucketofBalls99 said:
Touchless said:
A little surprised no one has mentioned Elon bringing up an unveiling of a flying car. Ideally by year end even. What would that do to TSLA? Not too far from all time highs as it is. I feel like the stock would go flying, pun intended.
I guess I do not understand this whole flying car concept thing. If we were to have flying cars, how in the heck would it be regulated up there? Surely they will only be allowed to go up a certain height, but like anything else, will that stop those that end up in the wrong hands or some joy-flying kid? How will it work without lanes? Will anyone be allowed to just fly anywhere and in any direction? I sure don't want the thought of a crash above my house and one comes plunging through the roof during the night. Or driving down the highway and seeing a couple of accidents happen up there and then they fall to the surface causing a couple of more accidents? Am I thinking about this all wrong? Educate me, because I will say, I am ignorant when it comes to this I guess
I recently took a helicopter lesson at a school about 3 hours from my home driving 75-85 mph in a car. When looking at flight plans for a solo trip back home, it would take me less than 1.5 hours to cover the same distance in a helicopter that cruises less than 100mph. There's really something to that whole "as a crow flies" saying.
Autonomous flying cars with lots of built in redundancy and a highly organized navigation/air space control systems could vastly improve personal travel.
It would need to be electric drone like systems with much improved battery tech to make them economically feasible. Currently general aviation is INSANELY expensive. Even more-so for anything that doesn't have to land at an airport but is still feasible to travel long distances.
I suspect we'll see autonomous long distance airborne logistics systems in the near future as well. Fewer tractor trailers sharing our interstates would make road travel much more pleasant.
