In regard to the last post about the future car of Terrafugia Escape from Land posted by Brian Somers. I also did my article on the same subject, but for a different future vehicle and it's called the Skycar M400. This future vehicle has many advantages over the Terrafugia. The Skycar M400 has the ability to take off and land vertically just like the military harrier jet or the F35 so it doesn’t need any runway for it to fly. It can go as fast as 400 miles per hour and can fly 900 miles on a tank. The mileage is 20 miles to the gallon. It can sit four people.
Right now the Skycar cost about a million dollars which is comparable to cost of European super cars like the Bugatti Veyron $1,700,00 or the Lamborghini Reventon $1,600,000. But the price can go down to $60,000 as soon as mass production starts. The Skycar M400 has eight rotary engines. There are two in each of the four metal housings called nacelles. So if one engine fails, the other can maintain flight. For satefy features, the vehicle will release parachutes and airbags internally and externally. Also Global Positioning System (GPS) will be used to guide the vehicle.
Just imagine running late for work and it's rush hour. Waiting for lights can take for ever, but with the Skycar, you can fly right over them. Getting to destinations will be much easier and quicker. It'll make transportations more convenient.
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/flying-car.htm
http://www.moller.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=49&Itemid=57
This is really cool, but of course it brings up a lot of the same safety issues as the previous blog post. Will there be a way to control where people fly in the air? Without roads or specific paths there might be a lot of accidents.
ReplyDeleteWith time being the most important thing within this world, nothing seems more exciting than something that could diminish the mass amount of time travelers have to spend in a car. To think that this new car could save a business man five hours in traffic, which could instead be spend with his kids, is just fantastic. When the automobile became affordable to the middle class, people realized that they no longer had to stick around there little town. They could just hope in the car and go for a drive to the city and see the sights. This led to highways and drive-throughs being built. With this new kind of vehicle, just imaging the places you could go. Travel across the country would no longer take days but hours. But with increasing gas prices, people are starting to leave that go anywhere mentality and go back to sticking around home. With all these smart people working on inventing flying cars, you would think someone would come up with an idea on how to run them on something other than gasoline.
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ReplyDeleteI agree with Isabella that while this is such a cool invention, but it poses several safety issues such as traffic control and necessary licensing. Also how would potential DWIs and DUIs be handled? Any professional pilot is monitored to be sure they are not intoxicated when they fly, but if any civilian can get into their car intoxicated and drive, who's to say they won't get into their flying car intoxicated and instead of crashing a car on the ground, they crash a plane which has a much higher potential for devastation.
ReplyDeleteI liked reading this because it was almost a sales pitch to buy this thing, that is if i had a mil. to throw down. I wish it could drive nice like a regular car but the fact that it can take off vertically is awesome. I'm gonna get one when it's 60k.
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ReplyDelete1.) That thing does not look safe!
2.) I really like how you acknowledged Brian's post and then calmly stated that your subject was superior to his. It's very funny!
That seems like a bit too much money for a death trap like that. I feel like that will never actually hit the market due the fact that it will kill people. It needs improvements.
ReplyDeleteOnce again, this just sounds like a bad idea.
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