the Jetsons just got real!!

[rattlsnak]

[masraum]

Super cool, but there's some very questionable graphics in that video. Nice touch putting the chick in a sports bra. hahahah

[RKDinOKC]

That only CGI concept stuff. This guy has had the Skycar for decades...



Can't get FAA to certify anything. Claimed air traffic control congestion nightmare with people taking off and landing anywhere.

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by masraum

...there's some very questionable graphics in that video....

Some?

That's generous.

[Steve Carlton]

I'd be concerned about drone strikes.

[KFC911]

No place for Astro....fake!!!

[Jim Richards]

The least they could have done was get the theme song in their video right...




I wonder if that thing will come in Aubergine.

[Steve Carlton]

Is there a twin machine gun option?

[pavulon]

Needs to sound exactly like George's car or fail!

[Tervuren]

Its amazing how language evolves.

"Two Seater Drone Vehicle"



Instead of two seater helicopter?

[Gogar]

The Jetsons is becoming real! did you see how big the Gulf of Mexico is from the advancing oceans?

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Tervuren

Its amazing how language evolves.

"Two Seater Drone Vehicle"



Instead of two seater helicopter?

Yea, something weird about a two person "drone" as a sentence.

Until the day they can make it 100% automated it will be terrifying for the population. I can see it now, I will need a rider on my home owners and car insurance to protect me from financial losses from thaose things falling out of the sky all over the place.

Just watch the average driver on roads with simple rules. Now extrapolate that mayhem into three dimensions and no restrictions for fences or property boundaries or staying on a road. The average building is pretty safe from a vehicle strike now, not so with those things in the sky.

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

. Now extrapolate that mayhem into three dimensions.

Ask your average Joe about the Z axis and watch as the glaze slowly comes over his eyes. So many drivers have trouble in two dimensions add that third and you're correct, mayhem will ensue. But if you could qualify it would be cool.

[matthewb0051]

Yep, that third dimension will be killer.

It would be cool for me to cruise up the river to work but getting sideswiped by someone else would bring things down to earth quickly and literally.

[MRM]

Flying cars of the Jetsons model are physically impossible unless we develop and anti-gravity device. The thrust needed to lift a vehicle is so enormous that the propwash would destroy anything in its area. A flying car taking off vertically from the roof of a parking ramp would blow a hole in the cement floor of the ramp.

[scottmandue]

Originally Posted by pavulon

Needs to sound exactly like George's car or fail!

Buy a Nissan versa... seriously... with the CVT, my wife asked "why does it sound like the Jetsons car?"

[gordner]

Originally Posted by MRM

Flying cars of the Jetsons model are physically impossible unless we develop and anti-gravity device. The thrust needed to lift a vehicle is so enormous that the propwash would destroy anything in its area. A flying car taking off vertically from the roof of a parking ramp would blow a hole in the cement floor of the ramp.

Is that somehow specific to flying cars and doesn't come in to play with say....heavy helicopters that routinely take off from normal surfaces without doing damage? Including elevated parking garages, building roofs, ships, streets, fields.....

rotor wash has an effect sure, but no where near what you are stating, and is no different for a drone, in fact it is mitigated by the multiple rotors and the ducting.

[Tervuren]

Originally Posted by afterburn 549

Drones will not autorotate in their present configuration.
Most are designed to fly with one motor failure .
But with a total electric failure.......bring the bags

Depends on the drone, there are single engine fixed wing drones that would glide to a descent.

Would the body bags be for monkees?

Drone:

noun
1.
the male of the honeybee and other bees, stingless and making no honey.
2.
an unmanned aircraft or ship that can navigate autonomously, without human control or beyond line of sight:
the GPS of a U.S. spy drone.
(loosely) any unmanned aircraft or ship that is guided remotely:
a radio-controlled drone.
3.
a person who lives on the labor of others; parasitic loafer.

[Tervuren]

Originally Posted by MRM

Flying cars of the Jetsons model are physically impossible unless we develop and anti-gravity device. The thrust needed to lift a vehicle is so enormous that the propwash would destroy anything in its area. A flying car taking off vertically from the roof of a parking ramp would blow a hole in the cement floor of the ramp.

The thrust required to take off without excessive vertical acceleration, is little more than the weight of the vehicle itself. Now it would however, if there were sand around, blast the paint quite nicely on other parked vehicles.

[MRM]

Originally Posted by gordner

Is that somehow specific to flying cars and doesn't come in to play with say....heavy helicopters that routinely take off from normal surfaces without doing damage? Including elevated parking garages, building roofs, ships, streets, fields.....

rotor wash has an effect sure, but no where near what you are stating, and is no different for a drone, in fact it is mitigated by the multiple rotors and the ducting.

A helicopter rotor is a lot bigger than the helicopter and is a lot bigger than a car. The lift force is spread out. Even then it doesn't have the lift to take off truly vertically and float and hover like a real Jetsons car. Helicopters can land vertically but even they move forward as they take off. To lift a 5,000 to 10,000 vehicle truly vertically and hover would take a huge jet engine. It was a little hyperbole to say it would blast through the floor of the parking garage, but it would kill anyone directly below it.