GM Debuts Futuristic Concept for Electric Flying Car

str8_forward

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Not trying to be funny, but they can hardly make reliable cars for the road, who in the world would take a risk going in one of these?:ROFLMAO:

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GM Debuts Futuristic Concept for Electric Flying Car

The flying taxi is part of the company's larger vision to bring dozens of new electric vehicles to the market.
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wiscoaster

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As a former professional pilot these "flying car" designs have been with us for decades. The technology to make the machine is the lowest hurdle. Getting the vehicle safely from point A to point B is another matter entirely. There's nothing that can replace the skilled and experienced human pilot. There are simply too many variables that require decisions based on incomplete data. Humans can make those kinds of decisions. AI technology cannot and never will.

Moulton flying car - 1949:

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str8_forward

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wiscoaster said:
As a former professional pilot these "flying car" designs have been with us for decades. The technology to make the machine is the lowest hurdle. Getting the vehicle safely from point A to point B is another matter entirely. There's nothing that can replace the skilled and experienced human pilot. There are simply too many variables that require decisions based on incomplete data. Humans can make those kinds of decisions. AI technology cannot and never will.

Moulton flying car - 1949:

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There's nothing that can replace the skilled and experienced human pilot............

You should see our "skilled" drivers in SC and then you will realize that AI is superior. Love the state, but has probably worse drivers than China and Nigeria, and these retards are normally hard to beat!


SC law, # 7_____As the South Carolina Board of Cosmetology notes, you need 1,500 hours of instruction to earn your cosmetology license in the state. Why do we bring this up? Because, in contrast, you need just 14 hours of instruction – eight in the classroom, six on the road – in order to get your first driver’s license. Does something seem askew here?
 
Phantom 309

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Haha, most people can't properly handle a motor vehicle on the ground. There's absolutely no way I trust anybody to fly a car. Even if that "car" does have the queen mother of all computers on board.
 
wiscoaster

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str8_forward said:
.... AI is superior ....
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AI and automation are superior in terms of precision and response and recall, but AI and the automation it controls can only operate by switching on known data retrieved from its database and according to its given rules sets. Many flying decisions require aquiring and interpreting new data and making new decisions for actions not in the database and outside the rules sets but judged to be correct in the light of previous experience and previous related but not identical data. In other words, it's not the same as driving. I can just picture the bot going into CPU freeze when it can't pull over to the shoulder at FL 390 due to a "not found" database error. Might be OK at some point for short intra-city automated commuting traffic, but I can't see it for the airlines.
 
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str8_forward

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wiscoaster said:
AI and automation are superior in terms of precision and response and recall, but AI and the automation it controls can only operate by switching on known data retrieved from its database and according to its given rules sets. Many flying decisions require aquiring and interpreting new data and making new decisions for actions not in the database and outside the rules sets but judged to be correct in the light of previous experience and previous related but not identical data. In other words, it's not the same as driving. I can just picture the bot going into CPU freeze when it can't pull over to the shoulder at FL 390 due to a "not found" database error. Might be OK at some point for short intra-city automated commuting traffic, but I can't see it for the airlines.
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just compared AI with the SC drivers, come by and visit us and you'll be convinced that my statement is true..........lol
 
Magnum

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The reality is that this is a fantasy. Duh.

Even if they could build the things for a cost someone average could afford (they can't ), and if the average driver learned the skills to operate the thing safely (they won't ), the amount of maintenance required to remain sky worthy would leave them grounded a good amount of time.

I've been in the automotive industry for 18 years, trust me when I say, very few people are willing to maintain a modern car. There's not a chance in hell the population could be responsible for a machine that will plummet to earth if it takes a dump. Plus the cost, most folks act like you tried to murder them if THEIR car needs a couple thousand $ in work. I'm sure flying car repair would be many times more expensive for any little thing.

Then the environmentalists start moaning about how many hawks and sparrows get hit every year. Between the flying cars and their windmills all birds would go extinct . Plus there's no floating McDonald's so you'd have to use the old wheelie car to go through a drive thru. Think about the chaos a drunk flying car driver could do, staggering.

I'll bet in 200 years people still won't have flying cars. Maybe I'm a pessimist but the population is brutally dumb.
 
CrustyCoot

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Have you seen their new logo? Instead of GM it is now gm. Nothing like trivializing yourself. The brain dead idiot that came up with that one should be fired.
 
wiscoaster

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str8_forward said:
just compared AI with the SC drivers, come by and visit us and you'll be convinced that my statement is true..........lol
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I think the residents of every state take perverse pride in claiming their state's drivers are the craziest. It's some kind of bragging right, I think. ;)

I used to do a lot of travelling and have visited and rented cars in most major cities and IMO, the city with the worst / craziest drivers was Augusta, GA. Though that was 25+ years ago, so no doubt the residents of SC felt a need to catch up and exceed their neigbors.
 
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wiscoaster said:
I think the residents of every state take perverse pride in claiming their state's drivers are the craziest. It's some kind of bragging right, I think
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I don't consider it a source of pride at all, and YMMV, but the worst drivers in the world typically show up in the proximity of Walmart sometime after 11am the first Friday of every month. Geographic location is irrelevant.
 
theotherwaldo

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The surviving drivers of Los Angeles are probably the best in the world.
They have to be.
Lots of wastage, though... .
 
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