The livery service company, Uber, wants to go full Jettsons — introducing flying taxis in the Dallas-Fort Worth and Dubai markets by 2020.
The cars will be small, piece of shit, electric air-craft — capable of landing and taking off vertically. They will emit zero emissions and will likely kill everyone on board instantly, upon errantly crashing into a live powerline.
The upside to flying cars, obviously, is travel time. The company estimates that by placing cars in the sky, the travel time from San Fran to San Jose could be cut down from 2 hours to 15 minutes.
I am certain the eggheads at Uber aren’t accounting for air-traffic, which will be abundant once everyone starts doing it. If you thought traffic was bad on the ground, wait until your flying taxi runs out of juice at 1,000 ft in the sky.
So, will you take the plunge into an Uber flying taxi?
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Did Travis Kalanick had a lunch recently with bullshitter Elon Musk and his space travel to come up with dumbshit idea like flying taxi-cars in 2,5 years? What the fuck are these guys smoking? I want some of that. Must be better than a hit of acid/LSD.
You’d like that, wouldn’t you? If they were all bullshitters and the world stayed the same? Less risk to your closely held, archaic beliefs?
Now you got my attention. I’ll have to go see what you are blogging about these days…
Clearly traffic would be alleviated greatly as you could have vertical air lanes on top of each other. These will hover not far off the ground.
I’d rather die the old fashioned way… in a self-driving car, crashing into a bridge abutment at high speed.
Frog first
Over the weekend I was driving down the PA turnpike going the speed limit, roughly 70MPH… Was thinking to myself, “Without a driver in the car, this would be absolutely pants-shitting terrifying.” And for that reason, I’m out.
I’m in when they add gamification and I can dive bomb the self-driving cars.
I’ll wait for the rickshaw.
Flying cars? Any accident would mean certain death. Count me out. If they come out with James Bond-style underwater cars, count me in.
Lol, there is red tape all over just walking into a place of business without “proper safety measures” in place.
Only in if the flying cars are driverless and look like a DeLorean
Anything that gets me away from alcoholics and Chinese on the road and I’m in.