Orlando is preparing for flying cars

[joelkfla]

"The Greater Orlando Aviation Authority on Wednesday took steps toward that future by seeking partners to develop and operate a flying car landing pad — called a vertiport — at the airport."

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/202...e-as-soon-as-2028/?share=liseoewnomietoetrs0i

 

[MARC Rider]

Please, please, let's nip this "flying car" thing in the bud. People can't even drive very well in 2 dimensions, how can we expect them to drive well in 3 dimensions with the added problems of atmospheric turbulence? If they really want to prepare for flying cars, they should be expanding shock trauma units and hiring more paramedics. the other thing they need to do us expand air traffic control and make sure all the dolts in flying cars have to spend enough time circling around the vertiports before landing that ant time benefit they have over regular cars in eliminated.

 

[Caesar La Rock]

To the people who don't live in Orlando. If you wonder why transit in this city is underfunded and why highways are laid out so poorly, it goes back to poor decisions by FDOT as I've mentioned before. It also because of dumb ideas proposed from the city too. It's not FDOT 100%, Orlando itself has to be blamed for bad ideas.

I've lost count on the many times I've almost died, because of reckless drivers on the road in the last 15 years. Could you imagine the calamity of flying cars, falling hundreds of feet out of the sky? I hope this idea gets tossed and never revisited again.

 

[flitcraft]

I suspect that flying cars will remain a Jetsons fantasy for the foreseeable future, and I am fine with that. Cartoonland doesn't need to worry about things like, what manufacturer will supply them? what about air crashes? will any insurance company insure said flying cars, etc. Even if this somehow gets off the ground (pun intended), the first disaster will likely be the last.