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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.
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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?
The idea that, one day, our cities will be filled with flying vehicles that push stuff downward to stay afloat, vehicles that lack the maneuverability and stopping power of wheeled vehicles, is absurd on the face of it. In other words, forget propellers, rockets, wings and all that other silly nonsense. Physicists will have to seriously retrace their steps to figure out where they went wrong because they will need to fully grok the nature of motion to solve this problem. Only a full understanding of motion can reveal that we are moving in a vast ocean of motive power, an immense lattice of energetic particles. No lattice -> no motion. Bountiful energy free for the taking, if only we knew how. Floating sky cities impervious to earthquakes, tsunamis and bad weather; New York to Beijing in minutes; Earth to Mars in hours. That's the glorious future of energy and travel. Read Physics: The Problem with Motion if you're interested. You don't understand motion even if you think you do.
A group of German engineers did this a couple of years ago.
http://e-volo.com/
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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.
Keep embarassing yourself Jeremiah Cornelius http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3581857&cid=43276741 since you posted that using your registered username by mistake (instead of your usual anonymous coward submissions by the 100's the past 2-3 months now on slashdot) giving away it's you spamming this forums almost constantly, just as you have in the post I just replied to.
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.
1. Find a helicopter.
2. Call it a car.
3. Profit.
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.
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.
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?
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
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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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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.