Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Cadence]

Imagine the fun experimenting trying to recreate the cloning incident...

 

[Thomas Shey]

Yep, there are tons of Technical Problems with transporters...we're barely scratching the surface. And to my point: even if you were finally able to solve all of those technical problems of exploding and freezing and high-velocity impacts, you will still have people who will want to use your machine to commit crimes. And yes, you can put in failsafes and other regulations, but there will still be people who won't stop until they find a way around them. Your failsafe is someone else's Technical Problem to solve.

That's true with any piece of technology. As always, the question is whether the benefits outweigh the costs. In the case of aircars, the only real benefit has a massive cost baked in.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

That's true with any piece of technology. As always, the question is whether the benefits outweigh the costs. In the case of aircars, the only real benefit has a massive cost baked in.

Yeah, aircars don't solve any current problems that mass transit can't address sooner and more cheaply. The only advantage that aircars have is that wealthy individuals will buy them for prestige, while mass transit in the US is generally stigmatized as the transportation choice of the poor. (There are ways to change that, but those wealthy people, who tend to have the ears of politicians, fight changing the incentives like hell.)

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Hmmmmm…

Wealthy people with expensive air cars? What could go wrong?

Viper Crashes Into Parked Cars

#thesociety #vipprimo #car #supercars #automobile #dodge #viper #crash #shorts No one was injured in this crash.Older cars are called analog, which is short ...

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Model S loses control when attempting to jump over a hill

This Model S owner assumed the car has takeoff facilities, they were proven wrong when it crashed. This video originally appeared on Twitter, posted by @Blak...

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[Whizbang Dustyboots]

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Someone will be hurt or killed.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Yeah, aircars don't solve any current problems that mass transit can't address sooner and more cheaply. The only advantage that aircars have is that wealthy individuals will buy them for prestige, while mass transit in the US is generally stigmatized as the transportation choice of the poor. (There are ways to change that, but those wealthy people, who tend to have the ears of politicians, fight changing the incentives like hell.)

If they ended up being reasonably priced, they could end up saving a lot on infrastructure, not needing roads and ramps and such. The problem is, that gets back to the whole "flying over houses and buildings when people don't have a great record even when on dedicated pathways", so to do the beneficial thing, they'd be right into doing the downside.

 

[trappedslider]

Watch: Nevada's new flying car handles like a go-kart, hovers like a heli

It drives at highway speeds, handles like a go-kart, transforms from drive to fly mode in three seconds, takes off vertically, and can fly for up to three hours on a hybrid powertrain. This remarkable road-going rotorcraft company is moving to Vegas.

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[RealAlHazred]

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Someone will be hurt or killed.

And too often, it'll be someone who wasn't doing anything but just existing on the ground.