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Terrafugia CEO Responds To "Flying Car" Criticism

waderoush writes "The majority of the comments on last week's Slashdot post It's Not a Flying Car — It's A Drivable Airplane were critical, even dismissive, of Terrafugia's work to build a two-passenger airplane with folding wings that's also certified for highway driving. We boiled down these criticisms to the dozen most commonly expressed points, and today we've published responses from Terrafugia CEO Carl Dietrich. While hybrid airplane-automobiles are an old (some would say laughable) idea, Dietrich argues that current materials and avionics technologies finally make the concept feasible."

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  1. Re:Just another energy-wasting toy for the rich by jcgf · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Instead of bitching about the rich, why don't you go out and get rich yourself? Either that or go and eat some cheese as it would go well with your whine.

  2. Re:Just another energy-wasting toy for the rich by marxmarv · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Getting rich does not increase the amount of low-entropy energy sources. Clearly you are no smarter than yeast.

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  3. Re:The most important question, though... by QuantumG · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Agreed, they could have at least made it look like an SUV.. that thing looks like it is made for a European market.

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  4. iPlane by mreggen · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No parachute. Less range than a Cessna. Lame.