The Samson Switchblade flying car
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The Samson Switchblade flying car
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Re: The Samson Switchblade flying car
#2So what makes this different from the myriad other attempts to build a flying car?
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#3"Flying Car" drives me crazy. The requirements of flight and road travel are enormously exclusive.
I'm super excited about the new possibilities personal, local flight enabled by all the developing tech like batteries, multi-rotors, controllers, peer-to-peer and ADS-B. That type of craft will go a long way to diminishing the needs for roads and parking lots.
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#4He keeps saying "you" in the video, like we all have room in our garage for a 2 seat flying car and a personal airfield.
Yawn.
I was more excited about the Faraday electric commuter bike I saw at a bike rack today: https://www.faradaybikes.com/product/cortland/
Practical, fun, reasonably priced, and viable now for a whole heck of a lot more people than flying cars!
Re: The Samson Switchblade flying car
#5So what makes this different from the myriad other attempts to build a flying car?
If we're being honest, probably just the marketing.
Re: The Samson Switchblade flying car
#6Looks about as sturdy as a dodge neon with wings imho...
Why the hard angles on the tail wing attachment? Seems like it's just begging to get ripped off in turbulence.
Re: The Samson Switchblade flying car
#7Flying cars are always poor cars and poor airplanes.
Re: The Samson Switchblade flying car
#8Every flying car startup is a grift, I guarantee.
There are two possibilities when it comes to making a flying car viable
1. Use fossil fuels even less efficiently because now not only does your vehicle have to move forward, it now has to keep itself in the sky.
2. Use electric motors which are already hard enough to sell in cars because they don't give as much range, and then put them in an application where, again, they have to keep something in the sky.
It's just not feasible, along with all the other requirements for training, storage/landing area, etc...
Re: The Samson Switchblade flying car
#9I've always felt like flying cars are a solution looking for a problem. Massive deployment of flying cars has similar problems to cars on the ground (need space to land/park, airspace isn't unlimited, humans can't be trusted to fly safely). Additionally, they don't go fast enough to glide and don't have enough rotor mass to perform an autorotation in the event of total power loss. I doubt they're viable as a method of transportation at any large scale.
EDIT: Not to mention the much worse energy efficiency - staying in the air is _expensive_.
Re: The Samson Switchblade flying car
#10Every flying car startup is a grift, I guarantee. There are two possibilities when it comes to making a flying car viable 1. Use fossil fuels even less efficiently because now not only does your vehicle have to move forward, it now has to keep itself in the sky. 2. Use electric motors which are already hard enough to sell in cars because they don't give as much range, and then put them in an application where, again,…
No, there exists third possibility: balloon technology.