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We have cars for the land. We have boats in the water which are very much like cars for waterways. Then there are duck boats which are a hybrid that have never been anything more than a gimmick.
Flying is the same way. A small helicopter can be thought of like a car or boat, but for the air. They all fulfill similar things, just through water, land, or air.
To make the duck boat of the sky (the flying car), we’ll end up with the same issues as the duck boat. It won’t be particularly good at anything. It will be a bad car and a bad flying machine, which will leave it as a gimmick that makes even less sense than the duck boat. A good car/boat hybrid could eliminate the need for bridges in many cases. The dream of the flying car is mostly to avoid traffic, which could be improved with better infrastructure. If everyone was flying the way they think, it would be chaos. Flying cars are only cool when you’re the only one with the flying car.
Definitions probably need to be made more clear.
We have cars for the land. We have boats in the water which are very much like cars for waterways. Then there are duck boats which are a hybrid that have never been anything more than a gimmick.
Flying is the same way. A small helicopter can be thought of like a car or boat, but for the air. They all fulfill similar things, just through water, land, or air.
To make the duck boat of the sky (the flying car), we’ll end up with the same issues as the duck boat. It won’t be particularly good at anything. It will be a bad car and a bad flying machine, which will leave it as a gimmick that makes even less sense than the duck boat. A good car/boat hybrid could eliminate the need for bridges in many cases. The dream of the flying car is mostly to avoid traffic, which could be improved with better infrastructure. If everyone was flying the way they think, it would be chaos. Flying cars are only cool when you’re the only one with the flying car.