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MikeHawkMasterBaiter t1_j1wirob wrote

To be honest we already do have "flying cars" in the form of airplanes, jets, and helicopters.

I mean the only reason we don't all have one in our driveways are whatever is because they are so loud for one, air traffic logistics is going to be a nightmare, and if there is an accident in the sky guess what's going to happen with all those debris falling underneath?

You ever see what a penny does thrown off a skyscraper and how dangerous it is?

Imagine hundreds of pieces from an aircraft colliding with another aircraft...

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I get what your saying about automated flying but still, I have my doubts even if they come out with that type of technology because flying through the air isn't simple as driving due arbitrary dangers such as weather conditions.

Look at how many accidents Tesla's automated cars have had.

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Chop1n t1_j1ws7kp wrote

"What a penny does thrown off a skyscraper"? Yeah: it hits terminal velocity after about 50 feet. Hurts a little if it hits you in the head, maybe causes more serious damage if by some chance it gets you in the eye. That's about it.

Perpetuating urban myths really hurts your credibility.

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MikeHawkMasterBaiter t1_j1zodjb wrote

A penny falling off a skyscraper hitting someone in the head is like a bullet, wtf?

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Chop1n t1_j1zt577 wrote

You couldn't be arsed to spend five seconds googling before writing this comment? Seriously?

It's utterly incapable of causing serious injury. Do you not understand the concept of terminal velocity?

https://www.livescience.com/18832-penny-dropped-skyscraper.html

"Instead, it would flutter to the ground like a leaf. If it did strike you, it would feel like being flicked in the forehead — "but not even very hard," said Louis Bloomfield, a physicist at the University of Virginia. And he should know. He recently used wind tunnels and helium balloons to replicate the fall of pennies from skyscrapers. When experimental pennies struck him, it didn't hurt. "I think one bounced off my face once," Bloomfield told Life's Little Mysteries."

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MikeHawkMasterBaiter t1_j1zus7b wrote

Alright you win but debris from 2 aircrafts colliding are not pennies.

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Chop1n t1_j1zx4no wrote

Well that's a goalpost move, isn't it? My criticism was about you perpetuating the urban myth about pennies and nothing else. I didn't go on to say "Therefore your analogy is invalid" or something.

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MikeHawkMasterBaiter t1_j1zz638 wrote

Alright you win!!!

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Chop1n t1_j1zzibw wrote

Thank you. I will now eat this slice of cake for breakfast as if I'd accomplished something meaningful.

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johnp299 t1_j1wqbz0 wrote

Apologies for going off topic but Tesla publishes its accident stats. The autopilot is optional, it’s up to you if you use it or not. But people experience 2x the accidents with it off.

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