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Old 3rd July 2021, 09:24
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Thumbs down Flying cars.

I see the 'flying car' has reappeared with the forecast, 'This is the future!', accompanied by a description of hundreds of these vehicles criss-crossing towns/cities etc. etc.

Every one of the 'drivers/pilots' would need to have a PPL, (Private Pilots Licence) to be qualified to fly one of these vehicles with, also, the possibility of needing a CPL (Commercial Pilots Licence), if the vehicle in question was carrying a fare-paying passenger i.e. a taxi.

Could you imagine the chaos of hundreds of these car/aircraft flying at various altitudes, (as they would need to be in the current 'stacking system'), over our small island!

Methinks these vehicles will become toys for the super-rich and certainly not in every-day use! Phil

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Old 3rd July 2021, 09:49
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I could envisage flying cars not under the control of the driver. Fully autonomous with large sensor arrays and rapid coms to a computerised ground based control centre and also to any other similar vehicle within say a 10 mile radius.
I'd have more trust in machines than some of the drivers I see on the roads today, the thought of them being in the sky .... !!!!
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Old 3rd July 2021, 10:42
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Two dimensional parallel parking, I am told, is difficult enough (especially, I am again told, for the memsahibery). In three would it be 33% more difficult or some form of square/cubic law?

I envisage little old shopping peoples, having just put the gear into 'park', stepping out 10 metres above the flycar park. Grannysplat.
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Old 3rd July 2021, 11:37
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Fully autonomous means 'Granny' doesn't get to touch anything, merely announce where she wants to go.

'Dave' on the other hand, might encounter problems with the HAL sub-processor module.

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Old 3rd July 2021, 19:37
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If pigs can fly...........
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Old 3rd July 2021, 20:47
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I don't think that this "vaunted" plan will ever GET OFF THE GROUND! There, I said it.......I shall now go to sit in the corner.......
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Old 4th July 2021, 07:38
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They worked for Dan Dare.
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Old 4th July 2021, 08:24
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I predict the insurance bills will be very high.
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Old 4th July 2021, 08:37
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Has Jeremy Clarkson or Raymond Baxter test driven it or carried out a test flight?
There will, of course, have to be a Lifejacket under all seats.
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Old 4th July 2021, 09:47
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Who needs a flying car when you've got a Suzuki GSXR1100 ?

BMW drivers .... get out of the ******* way. (Still have it, but I'm getting a bit creaky for that sitting position these days.)
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Old 4th July 2021, 10:19
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'The future' has been around forever...
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Old 4th July 2021, 11:12
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Who needs a flying car when you've got a Suzuki GSXR1100 ?

BMW drivers .... get out of the ******* way. (Still have it, but I'm getting a bit creaky for that sitting position these days.)
My eldest daughter had a boyfriend with a GSXR. He could ride it too!

My daughter and boyfriend, (John), lived with me for a while.

We three would go for a 'blast-out' on the twisty back-roads to Scarborough. Me on my Suzuki 1200 Bandit.

I would think I was riding as fast as it was possible to go on that twisty 'B' road and then John, (with daughter perched on the back!), would pass me on a corner, leaning-over at an angle which defied gravity and deafening me with a blast from his (legal, surprisingly!), stainless exhaust!

Happy days! NOW I'm reduced to whizzing-round on my three-wheeler 'scoot' at a blistering 8 m.p.h.!

Keep riding Bob no matter how 'creaky'. Phil
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Has your moped a Bottleometer? and how far up the scale have you gotten? With that fairing is there a need to tuck your trousers into your socks like Geoff Dukes?
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Old 4th July 2021, 19:13
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Flying cars eh?.... the cost will be through the roof (I'll just get my coat)
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Old 4th July 2021, 21:50
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Maybe these flying cars will be fitted with balloon tyres? If they are made in the UK they ought to also have big wings. And if a female driver/pilot was caught speeding by a traffic policeman, you could guarantee that the headline in a certain red top tabloid newspaper would probably be
"By 'ell 'e copped 'er."

OK,OK, I can hear the groans now..........
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Old 5th July 2021, 14:13
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Old 7th July 2021, 13:09
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Old 7th July 2021, 14:00
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If you're going in the Flying Car this might come in handy... (the more beer you have, the worse it gets. )
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Old 7th July 2021, 15:49
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I have made one of them. I glued the youngfellows Silva compass to a 6" ruler.
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Old 7th July 2021, 16:05
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Seems to me there's a lot of obsession with six inches around here, bloody egos at work again.
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Old 8th July 2021, 06:10
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Seems to me there's a lot of obsession with six inches around here, bloody egos at work again.
I thought you all went metric.
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Old 8th July 2021, 07:21
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The rumour on the highways and byways of the West Country is that Mr Clay is having trouble joining the local Hells Angels Chapter. One wonders why.
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Old 8th July 2021, 09:28
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I tried but the electric bicycle didn't fit with the ethos.
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Old 8th July 2021, 10:58
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I thought you all went metric.
No, around here it is six thumbs, or one third of an ell, or one and half hands.
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