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Title: Say goodbye to traffic jams
Post by: FLOOB on January 31, 2016, 08:53:42 AM
The future is now.


Title: Re: Say goodbye to traffic jams
Post by: APDrone on January 31, 2016, 12:38:44 PM
Meh.. the only way this will cause traffic jams to go away is if everybody who bought one moved their residence close enough to work to be able to fly there on the machine's range, .. at which point, they'd realize it was close enough to just walk.

If the range problem is figured out, then the next roadblock will be all the wreckage from collisions of folks who cross infinite planes of variation, not just the 2 they have trouble navigating today.  How many people bother to use their turn signals? 

Imagine the fun of adding in tilt, elevation, direction, orientation indicators?   :confused:   :bolt:  These folks who've proven time and again, they can't keep a car in between a set of lines..

If these things ever become common, I'm driving a tank.
Title: Re: Say goodbye to traffic jams
Post by: Vulcan on January 31, 2016, 02:36:54 PM
White shorts with black socks, shoes, and those pasty white legs.

Must be poms.
Title: Re: Say goodbye to traffic jams
Post by: Nefarious on January 31, 2016, 03:14:07 PM
What's with the cockpit?... Can't see out of it.
Title: Re: Say goodbye to traffic jams
Post by: FLOOB on February 02, 2016, 05:18:17 PM
Guess I was the only one who thought this was hilarious. As usual.
Title: Re: Say goodbye to traffic jams
Post by: hgtonyvi on February 04, 2016, 04:02:05 AM
I found it funny also floob. Lmao. Looks like the seat is a peace of mattress. Lol
Title: Re: Say goodbye to traffic jams
Post by: Skuzzy on February 04, 2016, 01:01:57 PM
I think it will just move the traffic jams to the hospitals.
Title: Re: Say goodbye to traffic jams
Post by: DmonSlyr on February 04, 2016, 01:22:59 PM
Imagine your neighbor taking off every morning in that thing :x

I give them props for flying, atleast.
Title: Re: Say goodbye to traffic jams
Post by: FLOOB on February 04, 2016, 01:33:48 PM
And they say the sun has set on the british aerospace industry..

His choice to pilot in his boxers was a weight consideration I'm sure. Still I'm slightly disappointed he chose to forego sock garters.

It will be a spectacular crash though. Fifty tiny lethal helicopters going everywhere.
Title: Re: Say goodbye to traffic jams
Post by: Wmaker on February 04, 2016, 06:30:14 PM
"Slightly" refined version... :)

http://www.volocopter.com/index.php
https://www.youtube.com/user/Volocopter/videos (https://www.youtube.com/user/Volocopter/videos)

A practical application of this type of vehicle isn't a big challenge at all compared to the infrastructure/technology and legislation to facilitate operation of huge numbers of these type of vehicles safely near big population centers.