When will news media stop falling for this shit?

Oh, yes, when it stops generating clicks. I am part of the problem.

  • LifeOfChance@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    It’s a lightweight 3d printed exoskeleton of a car using drone like motors and fans. The journalist who went in person was not allowed to be close or watch someone get in or out of the vehicle. While in air it is pretty obvious there is no interior seating just what looks like 2 large fans on the bottom. To call this even a concept of a flying car is incorrect at best it’s a custom drone.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    2 days ago

    I’ve seen plenty of working flying cars since the late 90’s.

    Word to the media: don’t bother us with this shit until they have a working idea on how to monitor and regulate the shit so we can all have flying cars and not just one dude’s stupid prototype. The hard thing isn’t making a car that can fly. That shit is relatively easy. The hard part is figuring out how air traffic would work if everyone was up there. It’s already a PITA and there aren’t a helluva lot of planes compared to cars.

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      2 days ago

      I’ve already seen how ordinary people drive in two dimensions. Three dimensions is an impossible ask.