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Takadeshi t1_iwheg7a wrote

Reply to comment by botfiddler in My predictions for the next 30 years by z0rm

I'm not so sure, I don't think they make any sense energy-wise and would be less safe than ground vehicles. The amount of energy for a plane to take off is far greater than the amount it requires to stay in the air. The only short-range flight I expect to see are small electric powered planes for short flights, we've already seen these spring up in a few places in the US.

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everything_in_sync t1_iwhmjhz wrote

They wouldn't be planes. I've seen videos of people that have flown on basically drones.

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botfiddler t1_iwhmv8w wrote

This is what I meant, but drones is such a bad term anyways, since the drones in nature die after flying.

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Takadeshi t1_iwjdy95 wrote

Drones are great but not exactly stable. There are just too many random variables to predict for flying cars to ever be safer or more efficient than travelling across the ground. There's not really any advantage to doing so and there's all kinds of problems it could cause

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botfiddler t1_iwhn184 wrote

It's not about everyone using these, but a minority who can afford it and maybe needs to be somewhere. Time can be more important than anything else.

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