'Flying Car' Goes to Market

[MrFun]

I happen to agree; I don't think we need one. But we have one, nevertheless.

[ColdWizard]

Clearly it's a business thread.

[SlowwHand]

For the most part, the Tech Section is electronics related. You may find it hard to believe, but there are no threads on lawn mower advances either.
As far as who made me special, no one needed to make me special. The thread fits where I put it. Kind of like that #9 cork in your ass.

[Supr49er]

How do you know what size cork he uses?

[ColdWizard]

Flying cars will never become commonplace unless they are automated. People have enough trouble driving in two dimensions, I shudder to think of the consequences if they have to attempt three.

[snoopy369]

Actually people manage spectacularly to drive in 2 dimensions. We have what, 80 million drivers or something each day in the US? And what, a few thousand accidents with injuries per day? That's a remarkably low rate in the scheme of things. Compare that to construction jobs or whatnot... and consider that driving is probably the single most complicated thing you will ever do in your life, by far, including flying (with flying you don't have many airplanes to watch out for, or stoplights to brake suddenly at).

[Boris Godunov]

Funny, here I thought I'd always been driving in three dimensions...

[snoopy369]

You can drive backwards/forwards on the road, and left/right on the road, and degrees of said. You cannot drive up/down (off the road/towards the road), so you are driving in two dimensions.

Now, an offroader might argue they drive in three dimensions...

[Boris Godunov]

It was a joke, because space is the third dimension, and you have to move in space while driving... oh forget it.

[snoopy369]

But space is not the third dimension...

Maybe you're thinking of the Final Frontier?

[Boris Godunov]

But space is not the third dimension...

Maybe you're thinking of the Final Frontier?

Uh, space IS commonly referred to as the Third Dimension. Time is often called the Fourth Dimension.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimension

Classical physics theories describe three physical dimensions: from a particular point in space, the basic directions in which we can move are up/down, left/right, and forward/backward. Movement in any other direction can be expressed in terms of just these three. Moving down is the same as moving up a negative amount. Moving diagonally upward and forward is just as the name of the direction implies; i.e., moving in a linear combination of up and forward. In its simplest form: a line describes one dimension, a plane describes two dimensions, and a cube describes three dimensions.

[SpencerH]

You are driving in time though. So driving does involve three dimensions.

[Sarxis]

"Either way, it boils down to this: You sit down behind the steering wheel, drive to the runway, unfold two wings and take off. "

Ha! I'll be taking off from the nearest parking lot!

[MrFun]

Actually, I thought there are eleven dimensions.

[Zkribbler]

Remember onodera predicted flying cars back on Jan. 1.

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