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Topic	It's 2018, why don't we have the robots from Rocky 4 yet?
Zeus 10/09/18 11:46:47 PM #21:	rogerskg1979 posted... LOL Anyone who thinks flying in the air is going to be as easy as driving on the ground has no fucking clue what he is talking about. There is a reason that pilots go to pilot school for specialized training on how to fly. It is fucking difficult to fly and nothing at all like driving on the ground. It is not at all feasible to send the average citizen to pilot school just so they can fly a car. Anyone who thinks that has zero imagination, considering how the tech might someday evolve. You're positing on complete unknowns and arguing that it HAS to work THIS way because THIS way is the only way it's been done... which, if you took that idea and applied to cars, cars would never exist. rogerskg1979 posted... Like I said before, flying cars are nice in theory, but they would be a nightmare in reality. You can't teach the average citizen to fly, and flying is just too dangerous. Real life isn't like the fucking movies. Just because everyone flies cars in perfect harmony in the movies doesn't mean that shit will ever happen in real life. In real life you would have idiots who drink alcohol and fly, idiots who text and fly, slow elderly people with slow reflexes, assholes with fly/road rage, etc. That shit is dangerous enough on the road, but in the air the danger increases exponentially. Again, you're basing it on a very limited -- perhaps ignorant -- modern understanding of the mechanics. Even if you don't account for automated vehicles (which we'll likely have someday), you can still put safeties and controls to prevent a lot of those mishaps. rogerskg1979 posted... Why do we even need flying cars anyway? There isn't any real need for them. Basic convenience? The fact that it's easier to fly over buildings rather than navigate streets? The fact that you wouldn't need nearly as many roads. The fact that roads can often be rendered impassible following storms, etc, yet that poses zero problems for a flying car. Not to mention greater speed. --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. <cite>Zeus posted [p:910267779] in It's 2018,... [t:77069159]...</cite> <quote><cite>rogerskg1979 posted...</cite> <quote>LOL Anyone who thinks flying in the air is going to be as easy as driving on the ground has no fucking clue what he is talking about. There is a reason that pilots go to pilot school for specialized training on how to fly. It is fucking difficult to fly and nothing at all like driving on the ground. It is not at all feasible to send the average citizen to pilot school just so they can fly a car. </quote> Anyone who thinks that has zero imagination, considering how the tech might someday evolve. You're positing on complete unknowns and arguing that it HAS to work THIS way because THIS way is the only way it's been done... which, if you took that idea and applied to cars, cars would never exist. <cite>rogerskg1979 posted...</cite> <quote>Like I said before, flying cars are nice in theory, but they would be a nightmare in reality. You can't teach the average citizen to fly, and flying is just too dangerous. Real life isn't like the fucking movies. Just because everyone flies cars in perfect harmony in the movies doesn't mean that shit will ever happen in real life. In real life you would have idiots who drink alcohol and fly, idiots who text and fly, slow elderly people with slow reflexes, assholes with fly/road rage, etc. That shit is dangerous enough on the road, but in the air the danger increases exponentially.</quote> Again, you're basing it on a very limited -- perhaps ignorant -- modern understanding of the mechanics. Even if you don't account for automated vehicles (which we'll likely have someday), you can still put safeties and controls to prevent a lot of those mishaps. <cite>rogerskg1979 posted...</cite> <quote>Why do we even need flying cars anyway? There isn't any real need for them.</quote> Basic convenience? The fact that it's easier to fly over buildings rather than navigate streets? The fact that you wouldn't need nearly as many roads. The fact that roads can often be rendered impassible following storms, etc, yet that poses zero problems for a flying car. Not to mention greater speed. --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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