Have You Seen This?

[Tom Allensworth 1,532]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SgHSaNtAMjs

[ohsirus 241]

Me Want.

[cenkcnk 24]

me too

[Tushka 0]

It's a great concept, but unfortunately on the ground we have idiot drivers and drunks crashing into things. So imagine having them in the sky :O

[Tom Allensworth 1,532]

Me Want.

For approx. $400,000 and delivery in 2016 (if you get in line first), you can have one.

It's a great concept, but unfortunately on the ground we have idiot drivers and drunks crashing into things. So imagine having them in the sky :o

 

Yeah, this is definitely a vehicle that needs to have a Breathalyzer interlock.

[ohsirus 241]

They would have to assume the strictest license, so basically everyone who puts one on the road would have to be a licensed pilot also. Ground to air access points added locally.

[Tom Allensworth 1,532]

They would have to assume the strictest license, so basically everyone who puts one on the road would have to be a licensed pilot also. Ground to air access points added locally.

 

In the U.S. that would not necessarily be the case, if the FAA approved it for use at all. All they would need is a Sport Pilot's license. Not too tough a bar to cross.

[Captain Kevin 586]

It's a great concept, but unfortunately on the ground we have idiot drivers and drunks crashing into things. So imagine having them in the sky :o

Yeah, that wouldn't end well. I spend a lot of time driving around and you'd be surprised what I've seen.

[untoweechja 35]

Awesome.  Maybe there will be a tenable flying car in my lifetime.

 

When I was a kid my best friend got a Testors airplane that you could fly around in circles by holding a tether.  He let me have a go at it and I (unintentionally) nosedived it into the ground, munching one of the wings and busting the propeller before I could even make a single revolution.  (I was always breaking his toys--he must have really liked me or liked getting new toys after I broke the old ones, who knows).

 

Anyway, I expect my experience with something like this would be about the same.  Either that or I'd get rear-ended the first time I took it out on the street.

[Richard Sennett 2,499]

Wow amazing - thanks for sharing Tom

[VeryBumpy 272]

Neat. Would be very limited with where one could takeoff and land unless you live and work in the country.

 

Wonder how fast it is? Much faster than a car at 75mph on the freeway?

[Tom Allensworth 1,532]

 

 

Wonder how fast it is? Much faster than a car at 75mph on the freeway?

 

According to the news it can do 110-120 MPH on both the road and in the air. And it flies as slow as 30 MPH. That's slow enough for me to crash land in my back yard. :ph34r:

[RichLP 32]

Lovely...  I can hardly WAIT to see these in Miami...   

[WarpD 824]

Because it's a 3 wheeled vehicle, the first license requirement in the U.S. is a motorcycle license.

[stans 703]

Interesting concept, but I do have to wonder about training, licensing, insurance, and safety for people on the ground and in the air.  It's sad to say, but odds are someone, somewhere, in the presence of their friends would utter the phrase "hold my beer and watch this."