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    16 days ago

    And thus the reason we don’t have flying cars. That was two. Imagine the flaming hell that would be raining down if we had commute traffic numbers in the sky.

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      16 days ago

      We don’t have flying cars because technology has not progressed enough to make it economically viable for the masses.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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      16 days ago

      We don’t have “flying cars” because “flying cars” is what we call aircraft whose use case isn’t practical or safe.

      You can go spend $100 grand on a light sport airplane and get a pilot’s license in a couple months right now. You’ll almost certainly never use it for actual practical travel.

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        15 days ago

        I know a guy that’s a pilot and while 90% of his flying is leisure, he’ll sometimes fly down to France for his vacations etc in one. Doesn’t own them though, has to pay rentals.