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Hyundai's Flying Car Flies For an Audience

Posted by timothy on from the powered-by-musical-cheese dept.

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.

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  1. Man was not meant to fly in a car. by For+a+Free+Internet · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  2. link to original source by Trepidity · · Score: 4, Informative

    The linked post is just a low-information reblog of this article and its embedded video.

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    1. Re:link to original source by Walzmyn · · Score: 2

      And the video is damned useless. It jumps around so quick you can't even figure out what half the stuff is and offers no explanation.

  3. 2013 IDEAs festival? by Em+Adespoton · · Score: 2

    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.

  4. Re:Excellent by alphatel · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think you mean "Eggcellent" in regards to the man driving an egg with a clear shell helmet.

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  5. Better Link by newcastlejon · · Score: 2

    Here

    The money shot starts at 2:50 and lasts all of 7 seconds.

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    1. Re:Better Link by jfengel · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Thanks. I got about 90 seconds into the video and saw absolutely nothing of interest.

      My standard advice for anybody wanting to show me a video: edit it to half its length. Sight unseen, knowing nothing about you, I know that you're going to be too attached to the sound of your own authorial voice. It sounds like in this case that advice needed to be given 3 or 4 times.

  6. Re:"Flying car" is a stretch by SternisheFan · · Score: 2

    Why is it every time someone says flying car, it's never like The Jetsons? As far as I'm concerned, anything less than an actual Jetsons car is false advertising.

  7. More Lift by genocism · · Score: 2

    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.

    1. Re:More Lift by Flozzin · · Score: 2

      Agreed. I expected to see a car that flies. I figured it was another car-airplane hybrid. But no, we have 6 fans blowing downward and it's wobbly as hell. I believe the US Military did the same crap in the 1960's. Congratulations!

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    2. Re:More Lift by donaldm · · Score: 3, Informative

      Agreed. I expected to see a car that flies. I figured it was another car-airplane hybrid. But no, we have 6 fans blowing downward and it's wobbly as hell. I believe the US Military did the same crap in the 1960's. Congratulations!

      Actually it was the British that developed the "Flying Bedstead" in 1953/4.

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  8. Already done. by jcr · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A group of German engineers did this a couple of years ago.

    http://e-volo.com/

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  9. Flying car? by YrWrstNtmr · · Score: 2

    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.

  10. Re:Excellent by swalve · · Score: 2

    Eggscruciating!

  11. How to make a flying car, in 3 easy steps by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. Find a helicopter.
    2. Call it a car.
    3. Profit.