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Hyundai's Flying Car Flies For an Audience
garymortimer writes "Not many garages would work with Hyundai's hexadecagon. Showcasing at the 2013 IDEAs festival, the manned 16 rotored multirotor looks rather dodgy! Well done to them though for making it fly." It's just one of many crazy looking ideas in this video.
The only truly flying animals are turtles. Turtles soar gracefully and have super multidirectional turbothrusters with hover capability. Birds are just kludges combining parts of slugs, fish, and squirrels, and they are graceless and inoperable, compared to the almighty turtles. Needless to say, man, which a species of Dog, does not know how to fly without the aid of turtle, so this is just another episode of Hyundai Hubris. Things would be better after a revolutionary reunification of Korea that sweeps out the parasitical chaebol like Hyundai and its phony "flying cars"! DEFEND NORTH KOREA!!!!!
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2015 is just around the corner. Anyway, not sure how good will look a DeLorean with one of those.
Innovative, obvious buy in from the company employee's, teamwork. I say, well done. Who cares is any of these idea's are market ready. It's the creativity that will pay off in the end...
That's no flying car... it's not even a "roadable aircraft."
This is a flying car.
The linked post is just a low-information reblog of this article and its embedded video.
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How come in the video, it says 2012 IDEAs Festival everywhere?
I think we're seeing old ideas here. Interested in seeing this year's though; some interesting devices created there.
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The money shot starts at 2:50 and lasts all of 7 seconds.
If God forks the Universe every time you roll a die, he'd better have a damned good memory.
no flying grandmothers nor rednecks nor tech-distracted either, all of which would be as annoying as flying opossums.
Looks more Hyunadiy to me...
It's not a car or a plane and it can only lift a mannequin. It's cool but certainly doesn't push the boundaries of what's been done in the past.
And not a helicopter or whathaveyou?
Very funny. ahahaha...
A group of German engineers did this a couple of years ago.
http://e-volo.com/
-jcr
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I'm glad to see that Korean car companies have money for some R&D. Here car manufacturers are more "efficient". Haven't Koreans ever heard of "efficiency"? In newspeak, it means "moving car manufacturing jobs to Korea".
Signed: Anonymous, because we have many Korean customers (and I absolutely respect their efficiency and their 18-hour day commitment to work, I wish I could find it in me to be so committed, but our welfare system is making me lazy).
Is Hyundai actually calling it that, or was that name just invented by some random person who has forgotten high school geometry? It doesn't have 16 sides, more like 4. You could call it a hexadecacopter, but hexadecagon has an existing meaning, and it's not this.
There is no flying car there. All I see is a muti-rotor platform, lifting a mannikin. A scaled-up Parrot AR.
Whoopdi freakin do.
Thanks, that looks like some exce-e-elent reading material. So if we conquer our lack of understanding of energetic particles, the skys the limit (and more)! Tie-fighters that really could turn on a dime. I will devour this website later tonight. :^)
so they welded 4 quadrotor helicopters together - big deal! nothing to see here, move along please
This thing reminds me of the vehicles of Zorglub.
Okay... you first. What's stopping you from demonstrating your full understanding, Louis?
Understanding does not grow on trees and knowledge can sometimes be sweet as honey in the mouth but sour and bitter in the stomach. Besides, patience is an undervalued virtue. You only get a sniff for now, if you know what I mean.
"They're wrong. I don't know how, but they're wrong." Okay then.
Bluffing is only advisable when you're sure the other player won't call. If you've got a winning hand, let's see it.
You don't understand science even if you think you do.
1. Find a helicopter.
2. Call it a car.
3. Profit.
There is no such thing as trees. You made them up.
Goddamn liar.
It's all in the signature, been there for a while too....
I was promised a flying car. Where is my flying car?
And it can only lift a mannequin when it's in ground effect. I'd be willing to bet it's not actually capable of getting out of ground effect, let alone flying for any meaningful distance.
You only get a sniff for now, if you know what I mean.
Do you mean the person who came up with this shit was huffing glue?
Oh, I know alright. But this is my show, I make the rules and I say you're not worthy to receive this knowledge. Not yet. :-D
Heh. Not even a pair of 2's.
Just as I thought... ya got nothin'. :)
Posting this because too few people know about it.
There is such a thing as a personal flying device, it has existed since the 70s. It's called the Williams X-Jet or WASP (Williams Aerial Systems Platform), and also known as the Flying Pulpit.
Here's a video and its Wikipedia page. Other videos: one, two, three, four.
It's basically a manually controlled 3D Segway in the way it operates. You just lean in the direction you want it to move and adjust the power output. There's a separate control for yaw (turning left and right) because you can't do that by leaning in some direction (just like the one in the Segway) and that's it.
I won't go into a political tangent, but you've got to ask yourself why it's not being sold to the public. Even if it cost a lot (which I don't think it would: a small jet turbine is not that expensive), I'm sure there would be enough rich people interested in buying one.
He got a laugh.
For what little it's worth, so did I.
Well played, qbit!
Great! A video of a flying car! But nooooo.... "Unfortunately, this UMG-music-content is not available in Germany because GEMA has not granted the respective music publishing rights."
FUCK YOU GEMA! FUCK YOU ALL TO HELL!
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...but how's the air-brake technology coming along with these things?
It's actually a /. admin - it's a very lame marketing ploy. Kind of a morons interpretation of Freakanomics, if you have a "personality" it gives something for your users to talk about, as they talk it will pique the interest of outside people. Eventually ./ become a social media success, well, in their minds anyway.
To the rest of us it just looks insane, but think about it, why hasn't the idiot been banned?
No, it means you are a moron for not getting the joke.
IMHO, this illustrates what's wrong with American companies on several levels. One: Lots of Asian companies allow their engineers full access to the resources of the company to do proof-of-concept competitions. In general, American companies don't. Two: Lots of Asian companies actually make product. Too many American companies are focused on selling services.
I have rarely seen camera and editing work that was this bad. Someone got carried away with a new editing software package or something. Besides the ideas being nothing truly special or new (albeit fun to watch them having fun), the continual quick cuts - too fast to get a good look at anything - just gave me a headache. C'mon Hyundai, you're releasing THIS as something you are proud of?
Americans - their idea of the future is the 1950's, only with smartphones. Like grandpas wearing their fedoras and suit-n-tie, they want to keep on looking like they did when they were young and on top of the world. Cars and freeways, only with faster cars that don't look too silly, that is, that look like something that they grew up with.
A multi-rotor platform, with a little work, *is* a flying car. A flying car will not look like a flying Delorean. It will look like what a flying car will look like. And they'll probably pop up in African countries and Japan first. Cultures that aren't wedded to their own past glories.
Hyundai. :P
I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
I heard you like quad-copters, so I put quad-copters on your quad-copter so you can quad while you quad.
FWIW, the design limitations on a car (has to be able to handle collisions well, needs to be compact to fit the road, needs to handle ground drag well, visual range appropriate for a ground vehicle) and an aircraft (has to be lightweight, visual ability for 3-D awareness, needs to handle front drag well) conflict so badly as to make a flying car horrible at both jobs.
Which, in turn, means that the engineers forgot to do the most basic engineering: examination of the performance requirements and envelope.
So the ones playing with this project can't are maybe managers, but ... this is a waste.
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Come-on people. This guy isn't a troll. He really believes these theories. Here him out. Things don't "move" all things jump at light speed from subatomic sized grid sector to grid sector, something moving slow simply has more pauses between jumps than something that moves fast. Also there is a force that keeps things moving, things don't naturally want to keep moving, they want to stop, immediately into their spot. This special force is going to be explained, as soon as the blog poster decides to continue his series that he abruptly stopped writing 4 years ago. But trust me, it will be explained!
Guess Hyundai hasn't heard of the Moller flying car:
http://youtu.be/rgjug_0OAF0 youtube video.
http://moller.com/dev/ company website.
still in R&D but getting closer.
I had a quick look, and love all the "in time all will be revealed" bollocks. You're a less obviously schizophrenic version of the Time Cube guy. I might have missed it but I didn't see any "ha! they laughed at Newton/Einstein" remarks.
If you are genuinely mentally ill rather than just a fucking whackball, I apologise, and hope you get medical help soon.
...said the sock puppet.
Louis doesn't have any theories. All he has are poorly-thought-out objections to his strawman version of relativity and other physics he fails to understand.
I think you missed my obvious sarcasm.