FUCKING WHEN???

They will be automated, so its not like they will be fun.

day after you die

Not for literally another century. The technology, infrastrucutre, and the justification for switching to skycars won't be there in most of our lifetimes.

>>14202105
actually we have the basic tech. already but you're right on the rest of it.

>>14202084
50 years at the earliest and that will just be prototypes and a shit load of debates

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>>14202105

orly?

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>>14202165

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>>14202170
Wow a shitty helicopter someone stop the internet

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>>14202174

>>14202165
>$200,000 minimum price
>controlled via tablet
>20-30 minute battery time, who knows how long it takes to recharge this sucker (wouldn't be a big problem if you could swap the battery out for a fully charged one, but these are more likely internal batteries)
>in case of emergency, the company itself takes control of said copter

I see this as being useful for very rich businessmen in China's cities, so they can literally fly over traffic without needing 20 or so minutes to prep a common helicopter for takeoff. This shit would take years to get through America and Europe's air regulations systems, and they would need to include a hell of a lot more stuff to convince not only the government but also the public that this is safe.

>>14202084
Moller's a scam m8, he's been hyping this shit for over 30 years and the last time he made any flight with it (only once) was 2003, when he lifted a jawgaping 10 feet off the ground for an amazing 10 minutes. All tethered too, you know, just in case.

After decades of supposed research, he and his company quite literally have nothing to show for it. They feed off of gullible investors who don't know better and chinese businessmen who know just as much as the investors.

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>>14202181
Yay

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>>14202084

Never. This is the future you chose.

>>14202084
Michael Jackson was first in line to get one when they were due to be released in 2012 if that gives you an idea.

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When the FAA and other oppressive government administrations are dissolved. So SOON

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>>14202684
My eyes well up every time I watch 2001: A Space Odyssey. I get a feeling deep down that is supposed to be us and the chance came and went.

>>14202084
>Leaving your average driver in charge of operating complex machinery that needs meticulous maintenance, pre-flight checks and adds control over a whole new axis of rotation while traveling
What could possibly go wrong.

>>14202772
In all seriousness, LSD probably had something to do with society missing that bus.

>>14202760
>muh oppressive government administrations
>seriously wanting millions of absolute retards to turn the air above your head into a living hell
How can you expect the average person to fly a plane after seeing the average person fail to drive a car properly?

>>14202772
>that chance came and went

What, because the hypothetical year of 2001 is gone now?

I mean, we can still do something about, and many groups are. What we'll see in the next 10-15 years will be unlike anything before.

>>14202801
Wanna know why that whole space age thing ended up not happening then?

Congress felt uncomfortable about how much money NASA was using as a civilian space program, so they began slashing their budget after 1966. A Nuclear-Thermal rocket that was in testing was cancelled because of a lack of funding. They were only able to make a handful of Apollos and Saturn rockets after the mid 60s, and the last were used in the mid 70s for the Apollo-Soyuz.

NASA began planning a Saturn successor in the late 60s and early 70s that would shuttle stuff from launchpads to space, and this would be the space shuttle, a revolutionary new cargo transportation system. It would be able to be not only highly reusable but also be able to be launched again within a week or two. Nixon gave the initial funding for development in 1972, but as the 70s got worse Congress was unconvinced and had their hand hovering over the plug. NASA had to convince them, so they decided to partner with the military to create a space shuttle that could be used for defense launches as well. As this happened, the shuttle became more and more complex until it was a bureaucratically bloated mess, but NASA was not going to give up and have no manned rocket.

In the early 80s they were highly defensive and highly delusional. They forced all private and government space launches through the Shuttle, and tried making the Shuttle the thing they dreamed of in the 70s. Challenger happened, the military backed out, but NASA still forced most private launches in the US to go through the Shuttle, which really didn't change until after Columbia was destroyed in 2003.

Basically, it was about money and politics.

>>14202841
Nasa has been shady as shit with the funding they recieve since day 1 so I don't blame Congress for not taking their word for it.

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>>14202841
I can't find my webm of those rocket tests. All government agencies do shady stuff with their funding, I doubt NASA has every got as bad as the military with some of their projects.

When this happens combustible engines would be a relic. Like steam engines today.

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>>14202841
>A Nuclear-Thermal rocket that was in testing was cancelled because of a lack of funding.

It was more than that, since there was also a burgeoning environmental movement generally opposed to nuclear power along with people getting bored with space in general after the Apollo program. If people gave a shit about space or science in general, Congress wouldn't have started reducing their budget so heavily.

>>14202855
>Nasa has been shady as shit with the funding they recieve since day 1

Not really.

>>14202855
NASA is pretty transparent about what they do spend their money on. They have to be. It's kinda hard to convince people to go to space if you don't tell them what's up there or how you plan to get it.

They also end up with old military equipment to use as test vehicles, so on the ground, they look a lot better-funded than they are.

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>>14202684
>yfw the BTTF hoverboard predicted the colloquial dropping of vowels in product names as well as the Super Smash Bros emblem

>>14202956
Thats a really good webm

>>14202181
okay but how do you get out without being sliced by the blades?

how do you make the blades stop fast enough to make it so people don't have to wait 5 minutes on landing for the engine to spin down? Electric motors? Fuck, now we need bigger batteries.

it's so practical yet so not

>>14203508
Pretty sure its electric

>>14203514
so it has a flight time of maybe an hour, and if you let it run out of power the blades aren't big enough to self-rotate and it just falls out of the fucking sky.

surely there would be a "low power emergency landing routine" but catastrophic failure can't always be avoided

>>14202684
>saw an article about a woman who saw her son for the first time in twenty years after she had lost her sight when he was born after receiving a bionic implant
>scientists already figured out a type of interface that can allow prosthetics and implants to receive direct signals from nerves
>the fucking internet that lets you constantly swallow the propaganda you're tossing around
>cars that are 300 HP and still get 25+ MPG
>handheld communicators as powerful as computers that aren't even a decade old

>we will not experience this technology for a long time because the money funded to the research and studies is going to the military industrial complex.

>>14203593
Found the Bernie voter.

>>14203608
Bernie is a kike.

But it's the truth. We could be 15+ years ahead of are current technology but the military in countries that develop technology get more funding. But fuck off you political fag, you're fucked when you think your ideals are more important than the truth.

>>14202084

The future is now! https://youtu.be/GQTaaMnE6JY

>>14202174
>rated weight 100kg
So useless for the modern world.

>>14202956

>Webm

Fuckin saved!

>>14203735
that's at least half an american female, which isn't so bad

>>14203532
>so it has a flight time of maybe an hour

Read the fucking thread before you post.

>>14202084
Never.

Imagine how stupid the average normie is behind the wheel. Now add a whole new axis of stupidity.

>>14204509
That's why we're going with manned drones. You don't get to be stupid, it won't let you.

>>14203410
The Space Race was more of a show of which side was more technologically advanced, Sputnik for example was a demonstration that nuclear weapons didn't need bombers to be deployed and could go anywhere in the world in a short time.

After the US reached the moon, both the public and politicians thought it was pointless to keep going as they had already demonstrated their point and they felt there were more pressing issues to deal with at home. I guess what they thought was that some private business would eventually step up and kick off the real space age, but that ended up not happening for another 5 decades.

The environmentalist movement wasn't too huge around the time of the Saturn program. It was mostly connected to the counterculture, until incidents like the Polluted River catching fire made national headlines, and the famous Blue Marble image taken of the Earth from one of the Apollos.

Nuclear power itself was treated largely with indifference until later in the 70s, when it came to light that many of the plants were not as safe as they were assumed to be by the public, and Three Mile Island confirmed their fears that it was dangerous. While that factors in somewhat to why it is in decline in the West today, other major reasons include that western governments no longer have a real interest in them (their interest in the Cold War was that they could use the enrichment to make nuclear weapons), and that they simply aren't cost-competitive compared to some of their more favored alternatives, like natural gas.

In the end, the reason why NERVA was cancelled falls down to Congress not wanting to spend the money for it. They didn't want to continue the Space Race, and evidently the Russians didn't either after Korolev died and his prized N1 failed.

>>14202258
>This shit would take years to get through America and Europe's air regulations systems, and they would need to include a hell of a lot more stuff to convince not only the government but also the public that this is safe.

Unless they could get it to fall under the 'ultralight' aircraft classification. In the U.S. that means it would have to be under 254 lbs empty which it's obviously quite a bit above that right now.

Considering half of you faggots are puzzled by something as simple manual transmission, I'm in no hurry to have flying cars.

>>14204509
>muh normie
Shouldn't you be posting sad frogs on >>>/r9k/ or something

>>14202956
holy fuck that webm

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>>14202084
soon

car planes have been designed and tested for a long time now...there was no market, so none of it ever went further. Here's one from 1934 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5TGoJ9nWTc

There was also a hover car designed and shown off to the public in the 50s.

found a video of one made in the 60s
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When the FAA gets that barbed stick out of their ass and opens up urban airspace to minimally trained pilots in small aircraft.

We could all be flying to work in ultralight helicopters, right now. We aren't because the FAA won't allow ultralights in populated areas.

>>14203735
That is still over 200 pounds.

So it could hold 1 person that isn't a fat ass and a little bit of shopping.

>>14202165
>>14202170
>>14202174

Better to get a helicopter then this shit. Now if it had exhaust similar to a Harrier then it would be a different story.

>>14210805
they require incredible skill to fly and not crash
automated transport will free up the airlanes.

>>14210805
>and opens up urban airspace to minimally trained pilots in small aircraft.
never as long as muslims are a problem

>>14203496
lel never even noticed the smash thing there