Now that we have self driving flying cars, can anyone even be excited for any other car company?
Aircraft require insane maintenance. Because when you have a mechanical problem you can't pull over, turn your emergency flashers on, and wait for roadside assistance. You fall out of the sky and die.Normies can't even be bothered to check their tire pressure or change their oil. Flying cars will never be mainstream.
>>955183821The vehicle is a quarter million. The average Joe will literally never afford this car.
>>955183893Ignoring price, cars will always make shitty aircraft because they have to meet automobile crash standards to be registered to drive on public roads. Modern cars keep getting heavier and heavier due to the increasing safety standards and all the extra stuff like side airbags, thicker windshield glass etc.A flying car is always going to suck compared to simply having a car and a separate aircraft. It's going to be a shitty compromise of both that excels at neither task.
>>955184126Also a tiny fender bender is going to count as a crash and make the airframe not licensed for flight anymore.Horrible idea all around.
>>955184126The car has 3 versions.1: the street legal one that only has the suction system. 2: the one with jet boosters on the back for the track. 3; the flying one. But your weak fragile European mind can’t handle innovation
>>9551841931. I am American2. I have been an aviation and car nerd my whole life3. My point stands that making a combination automobile/aircraft is a horrible idea. It is like making a coffee machine where the upper chamber that holds the coffee grounds could double as a toilet you could poop in it. I would rather just have a separate toilet and a coffee machine. But hey that's just me...
>>955184343>making a combination automobile/aircraft is a horrible ideaIt's a phenomenal idea. You're just looking at iteration 1 and saying it's garbage. Eventually these vehicles will become more mainstream and less expensive, and they will become more physically optimised. That's how technological advancement has always worked, and innovation will continue until we no longer need roads to drive on.>is like making a coffee machine where the upper chamber that holds the coffee grounds could double as a toilet you could poop in it.It's not at all like that. Cars and airplanes are two different modes of traversal, they can work complementary to each other. Food production and waste management are diametrically opposed, you need to have two completely different systems that don't interact with each other at all to keep it sterile and not die
>be Elon>say you're going to invent flying car with rockets>leftoids mock and laugh at you because Trump>actually make car that can stay on upside down road and fly and jump over other cars>demonstrate it>leftoids: "hurr durr, u kant license dat!!!"There is every reason in the world to despise Democrats/Leftits and Faggots.
>>955184343who gives a flying fuck if it is a "horrible idea" the guy actually demo'd something people have talked about since the first car drove down the first dirt road.The autism level of you guys is insane.Rather than just enjoy it for being fucking cool, you guys get all whiny because of your duplicate genes.I never saw Ford or Toyota or GM or Honda make a car that can do a kick flip.Stop being little bitches for a minute and a half of your life.
>>955185341Also this
>>955184343You cannot be an aviation and car nerd without thinking what Elon did was evolutionary
>>955185594>>955185341>>955184585None of you can address any of the points I made about how the automotive crash standards will add unnecessary weight to the aircraft. Or how the requirements for certifying an aircraft after any sort of accident will make the smallest fender bender in a parking lot a logistical nightmare for keeping the aircraft certified for flight. Or how aircraft require maintenance schedules that are far beyond the capabilities of normies.All you can do is try to insult my character because you know I am right.
>>955185748No, you’re literally wrong because we already saw it flying
>>955185748>guy builds a car that flies>faggot autismo has to chime in about "muh aircruft safeuty!!!"We're making fun of you for being an absolute retard.
>>955185341There have been numerous flying cars before this. They all suck balls. This one sucks balls too. And since it doesn't have wings and only uses thrusters it can't actually fly anywhere. It is just a publicity stunt and the flight time is probably measured in seconds.But it got everyone talking about it which was the point.You aren't going to be able to use the thrusters in a drag race at a stoplight because it is a danger to the people behind. You can't use them at a drag strip because that stuff is already banned by the NHRA which sets the rules for drag strips. The fans are also banned by the NHRA. It is a novelty that is only going to be able to be used in very limited places and is just a rich person's toy and conversation piece.
>>955185748Well first of all, it's primarily an automobile that has vertical propulsion capabilities, not a traditional aircraft. But even so, standards and regulations will change to accommodate these machines, as has happened with all technological innovations in history. It will take time, but as the need arises, legislation will catch up. Your argument is stupid.The vehicle is in its first public iteration also, as I had said. It will evolve.>All you can do is try to insult my characterI did not insult your character, I'm insulting your argument if anything, which is a dumb argument>>955185792Also this
>>955185872And you are a retard that is excited about an expensive useless toy.If I was rich enough to afford these toys I would rather have a McMurtry Speirling. Fastest car around the Top Gear test track, fastest ever up the hill climb at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Faster than a F1. Also a fan downforce electric car.https://youtu.be/g6LYcgaQ46cWe are all just autists arguing about shit we will never own anyways.
>>955186206Aaaaaaaaand, argument lost.Cheers anon, never complain about Tesla again
>>955186031Of what use is going up and back down for a few seconds if you can't fly anywhere? If you took it too an airport it probably doesn't even have enough flight time to leave the property line of the airport in flight.It's a novelty toy for millionaires.
>>955186323>Noooo, you can't just bring up a cooler, faster electric car that did the driving upside down trick over a year ago!>You just hate Telsa!
>>955183718I want flying cars as much as anyone, but is this practical or accessible to the average person? Otherwise, who cares? Can you imagine how much the fuel for the jets cost?
>>955186500They are cold gas thrusters. It is just a super high pressure tank of nitrogen. Nitrogen is dirt cheap. Air is about 80% nitrogen.
>>955186573So it only gets like 2 seconds of flight time?
>>955186398You're the guy who looks at pic related and says "well I can't get to Europe with it so it's useless"
>>955186608Pure thruster flight is incredibly inefficient and will never be able to get you anywhere. You are only demonstrating how little you understand about what you saw.
>>955186667>proving my point
>>955186606I don't know exactly how long, but I would bet both of my testicles with 100% confidence it is under 1 minute of flight time.
>>955186689You have no point. Let me know when it can demonstrate even flying 1/2 a mile and landing and I will eat my own shoe on livestream.
>>955186791When that happens, the bar will be moved and your response will be "so what?"
>>955186608Dude has a point. We have a pretty good understanding of thruster technology and limitations. Back then they were only just figuring out what lift was.
>>955187053It will never happen. There is a reason the spaceX rockets don't use the cold gas thrusters for primary propulsion. They are only used for short bursts of control thrust that last fractions of a second. They are very inefficient. Their advantage is that they can be started and stopped instantly and don't need to ignite, build up thrust, and then shut down like a rocket engine.If you actually want to fly somewhere using thrust you would use a rocket or a jet turbine which are far more efficient. Or use wings which are the most efficient.It is a publicity stunt and toy. You are just a fucking idiot who doesn't understand any of this.
Bring back nitter you fucking faggot. No one cares about the overpriced toys of a rich man.
Tesla batteries can melt steal beams
>>955187235>It will never happenThat's what critics say of everything. I distinctly remember people telling me that ai, for example, would never get to the point it achieved 2 or 3 years ago, yet here we are using it to put minecraft into everything.It might not evolve the way you think it will, they might replace the propulsion system with one more efficient and cost effective, or the current systems might be improved upon so it can meet the standards you had last year and moved on from because you got used to the technology. That's just innovation.I don't think you fully understand the implications of a machine like this existing and being publicly displayed as it has
>>955187622>Stop talking about the topic at hand>Let me dodge your point, bring up this non sequitur, and strawman your position by putting words in your mouth you never said about AI, because I am a disingenuous piece of shit.
>>955187755Lol. I accept your concession
>>955186500Would you believe me if I told you they sell other products
>>955187838You made no point. You dodged every point I made>>955187622>I don't think you fully understand the implications of a machine like this existing and being publicly displayed as it hasI have already talked about it. It's a fucking publicity stunt and toy for millionaires to go>Weeeeee!And fly for 10 seconds and come back down. Or maybe win a drag race against their buddy in their Bugatti on a private track because no sanctioned motorsports event will allow the thrusters. And like I already mentioned the thrusters that push it forwards are going to be a danger in public and they probably have a sensor that doesn't even let you use them when anything is within like 100 feet behind you. So you can't use them at a stoplight to win a race against some other supercar.It's a toy.
>>955187965It is a "halo car". The purpose is to improve the brand image and create discussions and free advertising through viral marketing. Also to park one front and center at a dealership to make people's heads turn and stop to see it. Then the salesman starts talking to you and convinced you to buy a Model 3.Dodge talked about how that was the purpose of the Dodge Viper back in the 90s. Park it where everybody can see it as they drive last the dealership. People stop in to take a look. Then before they know it they are test driving and buying a Dodge Neon...
>>955188070See>>955186608
>>955189044I am>>955186398You already replied to me with that, retard.
protip: we don't have self driving flying cars.
>>955188579A model 3 is just as capable as the roadster short of, well, flying
>some nigger puts some gas thrusters on an empty shell>it does it's little jump stunt and no doubt depletes the cannisters entirely as it was designed to do just the calculated stunt and nothing more>"zomg flying cars!!!"total goyslop. god help you morons when they actually deploy project blue beam.
>>955192407It’s air, not gas. It can refill at any time.
>>955193115Air is a gas.
>>955194212Air is not a gas, gasses are like the shit you put in your car. Air is like a vapor or something, retard
>>955184343This post is peak retardation. You're comparing one of man's greatest technological aspirations to drinking poop water. Is that what you want? To drink poop water? No one stopping you bud go for it. What an absolutely shitty and nonsensical metaphor.
We’re in the endgame
Holy shit Shane shut up, you jealous fucking trog
I like to think about a black guy named Nigronius Maximus and he's like an ancient greek type of character but black as coal.
>>955184126>we cant have flying cars cuz daddy gubnint says we cant!Of all the legitimate sensible arguments against flying cars, you choose the stupidest fucking bootlicker one to make your case. Honestly you should just suck start shotgun you spineless faggot.
>>955183718It's a cool stunt. The tech being used is interesting. It might have uses in a couple different industries. If I want to fly to the next city over to see my parents, it's going to make it to the end of the driveway and run out of compressed gas and I'm driving like normal the rest of the way. What's the use case here? My garage isn't two feet off the ground and requires flying into. I would never design anything that requires this tech or no other vehicle could get into the spot.All I can think of is maybe putting this on an electric four wheeler and it automatically jumps and parks itself in your flatbed truck. Otherwise, there is no use case I can think of.
>>955187755this is a stupid nigger. this stupid nigger can vote. your tax dollars go to helping stupid niggers like this vote for what to do with the rest of the tax dollars. let that sink in...
Hi josh, are you buying the roadster
>>955207819Hi anonymous. I'm considering it now
>>955209617Hi Shane, kill yourself
I’m a cat
>>955212708Canine paws typed this post
>>955214785Non
Yeah... the mazda 3 turbo...
This was supposed to be the Josh thread >>955183502>>955183502>>955183502
>>955219114I didn’t make a josh thread.
>>955219334Yes you did
>all roads are two-dimensional use case?
>>9552198281.Get up onto an overpass.2. Accidentally drive off a cliff and start flying. 3. Getting chased by niggers and have to go airborne. 4. Getting pegged or riding Sybian machine and wanting to bounce up and down without using muscles, so you make the car fly up and down.
>>955219114No
>>955184343if you shit in your coffee maker:1. you are an American india poo nigger
>>955222331Shane, do you not realize that loli porn is a felony?
>>955223325Stop sexualizing kids
>>955183718>Now >we >have >self driving >flying carsniga wat?
>>955228561lel
>>955224199That isn't a kid. It is a drawing. Is a drawing of murder hurting anybody? Why aren't comic book artists arrested for all the people that die in action/murder comics? Maybe it is because nobody died.
>>955228960The difference is murder isn’t a naked child
>>955229258The similarity is that fictional crime isn't a crime.Draw a murder>Who cares it's a drawingDraw a theft>Who cares it's a drawingDraw war crime>Who cares it's a drawingDraw a nuclear bomb being dropped on a large city of innocent people killing millions of fictional people>Who cares it's a drawingDraw a fictional smiling naked little girl>WHAT THE FUCK! THAT IS LITERALLY A REAL CHILD. YOU NEED TO BE THROWN FEET FIRST INTO THE WOOD CHIPPER!Here is the opening scene from Akira where a nuke is detonated in the middle of the biggest city in the world, Tokyo. Does it make you feel even the smallest but of anger or sadness?You are just a virtue signalling faggot.
>>955229515The key statute is 18 U.S.C. § 1466A, part of the PROTECT Act of 2003 criminalizes producing, distributing, receiving, or possessing obscene visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Damn Shane, you can’t go a fucking single day without being a felon, can you? This is why all criminals deserve the death sentence because your kind never recovers.
>>955229968How old is a cartoon?
>>955230003I think Mickey Mouse is like 100
>>955230039The Simpsons came out in 1987. That means Maggie Simpson is 39 years old.
>>955230096Except for the fact they refer to her as a baby
Mods, do you guys just not care or what’s up
>>955230122>OMG, MODS!>PEOPLE ARE DOING THINGS THAT ARE LITERALLY LISTED IN THE RULES AS OK>DO SOMETHING!
>>955230337Lolicon is a felony, regardless of what rules 4chan itself has. Law > rules. Whatever, this all just goes into your portfolio anyways
>>955230373No it isn't. It has gone to court several times. The FBI has even asked people to stop reporting lolicon because it is wasting their time sorting through the reports. An agent has to look at every tip that is submitted to the FBI. You white knights take resources away from real crimes being solved by crying about cartoons. You are actually causing harm by wasting law enforcement resources.
>>955184193If I see one of those fucking cars flying by it's getting reported
Let’s see what Steph has to say about Shane’s arguments
>>955230488No, see, the distribution of child porn is a real crime
>>955230551I don't know who these people are but you need to stop posting personal information
>>955230572Show me someone convicted of only lolicon porn. Every example you people post always involves some guy with real CP or actually abusing a minor who was also caught with lolicon and the lolicon usually isn't even mentioned in their final sentencing. I have seen you white knights cry about this for over a decade.
