You do realize that they plan to add wheels, once the flight aspect is perfected, right?

@@reuteratwork8983 I was being sarcastic

@@ARGAN7705 - You forgot your "/s" tag -- there are people in this comments section who are saying that in seriousness, y'know...

Yes

This isn’t a flying car.... just a huge quadcopter. I cannot find any innovative challenge on this... I’m from Japan.

Still quieter than a loud ass harley!

Now imagine that you own this badass thing and you can fuckin fly to work!! No traffic jam, nothing!! Just you and an awesome view every single day. So go now and work really hard to own a home which has got such a big garden that you don't disturb your neighours.

I am already in the process of installing a landing pad on my roof. Want to be ready for when this thing hits the market.

This things is dangerous. Little kids running towards it when it lands would have their heads chopped off by the propeller. I hate reachable propellers without fenders.

It is probly only noisy when its over your head for the weight that it displaces its fairpy quiet for a multirotor this is just prototype stage blade pitch and length are easy to fix for this the prpbly have a nice flat pitch that wont rip the air up and make it more maneuverable and jerky they just want to see it all work then they can tinker with all the other stuff later in its development

@Kent Arnold You literally just said the use. It's extremely useful for emergency services like ambulances and I'll also add, police. Also a personal flying transport is incredibly useful. I don't believe everyone will have something like this, nor should the average person just be allowed to have a flying vehicle, but for people who can afford it, I don't see why not. People are already allowed to own private jets and helicopters. This would be similar, just more convenient.

Kent Arnold don’t forget: where there’s money to be made, American ingenuity will find a way. I see freight transport an industry where costs can perhaps be reduced and therefore profits increased. And others, in business, will find applications that will create new industries. This is what history has shown and will definitely repeat itself for this reason

I'm 62 years old and I remember flying cars featured in Popular Mechanics over and over again. They said it was only a few years before these would be in widespread use. My father who was born in 1935 had a book on aircraft of the day. And of course it had a car / airplane that would be produced in just a few years.

..at the beginning? flying cars have been "coming soon" for well over half a century

@@1jimjon No, people wanted them for over half a century. Big difference.

They 're japanese they're programmed to clap at 1.3hz but still dam impressive

@@hachimaru295 Ha! That made me crack up too much. 🤣

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They probably built the thing

"omg ! omg ! he is not dying! he is not dying!!!!"

Lmfao

SIX FEET!!

The models that are going to be on sale will have protection on the propellers, this is just the first working model, their plan is to start selling on 2023, so they have lot to improve We gotta start somewhere Besides this isn't going to run in a normal street, they're most likely to fly over the buildings to avoid accidents Let's wait their next step for this is just a demonstration showing that they can do a flying car

neat

You're absolutely right! Except that the people working on it probably already thought of that danger. And well, that thing in the video is just a prototype not meant for mass production.

We have actually designed a Zero-Zero safety system for eVTOLs for that specific purpose - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bdJ8bKlosNCsips.html Happy to work with SkyDrive on developing this system for use with their aircraft

Mister Comic Hunter As a Batchopter!

BLACK DEMI BLACK DE MI you ruined it

He'll yeah. I love it. I'm ready for some Capsule Corp DBZ shit

Japan is by far not the only country working on this

Yezzzz

@@brandonpersaud5634 true but they're ahead right now

@@arifgunawan9329 not even, look up Lilium Jet, German company with a farrrr superior concept for urban flying

This isn't even my final form.

Oh, the horrors of the lack of diversity they suffer through.

Worse than the messages in fortune cookies. At least they come with a (barely) edible biscuit/cookie.

We had flying cars in the 1940s.

We will just have people crashing in a larger variety of vehicles.

i mean, you can enjoy current times?

All aircraft are loud on takeoff and landing, but you barely hear them once they're on the move.

OK bye

@@capncrunch9053 imagine 100,000 of these in a major metropolis in the all at one time. Then say it wouldn't be noisy.

@@mgreg8134 , Dude!!! I want my flying car!! lol

Deliver me a pizza and I will clap for you plenty. Of course, I also clap for the regular pizza delivery guy, so there's that...

Lol

Pretty sure it's gonna be AI driving it, then a back up just in case with a human pilot else where (Control Base) controlling it.

you do realize how strict flying is, flight school is the first 2 filters and things like this will probably make you take quick tests before flights and the constant communication between you and flight controllers. So the future where everyone has flying cars? No. only the people who can afford a pilot or you are a pilot can use it, that is, unless autonomous flight is there

Lol. Great comment

I read this in jeremy sound lol

LMAO!

😂😂😂

Stigamouri

Powered paragliding is also very loud, but the noise seems to be a non issue when they’re 500 feet above you

If youre gonna be taking off somehwere, I could imagine the propellers being as much of a burden as someome mowing their lawn or powerwashing their boat.

I wonder what ducting the fans would do to the noise and performance?

I'm sure over time they'll form a housing around the blades to help with the noise (amongst other things)

@@IanBpa this cant even get anywhere close to that. its still a prototype. the technology is not there yet. this is just a big hover drone

This is not a drone, and thats not a passenger, its a pilot. Apart from these mistakes, i agree with you, a flying car should have road wheels.

@@totherik91 Cable car? Rail car? Ok, ok language is a bit slow these days

Yeah looks more of a mini copter than a car.

@@noblestar7742 Yes, and no. This is a similar stage of language development that "VPN" was at when it should have really been called proxy. Does my flippin 'ead in that one.

@@totherik91 well my point was that a "flying car" should be functional both on road & sky, so more than just having wheels. This thing featured whether it be called drone, copter or whatever, is not a flying car.

Probably still quieter than a Harley Davison.

There's that but also that this design looks like it could easily get a motorway conversion because it already has enough power to drive wheels. I'm just wondering if it's more practical to carry 4 small wheels and swap off the rotor blades. But then those spindly booms would need to double as suspension and not weigh too much to be impractical?

they wont. at least not in our life time

Don't worry, soon they will make silent type, and all you gotta worry is how loud it make to open up your roof top.

@@Stormprobe Yeah you are absolutely right

This is very underrated lol.

yes they believe they are the superior race

Golf clap!

@@karonga629 that was hella uncalled for tho

lol

Or a drone

Quadcopter, and with time the noise will come down. Helicopters are still loud to this day but nothing like how they were 40 years ago.

Octocopter

@@STiMonkey Exactly, it is a enlarged DJI Drone. Not really much more to it, other than putting the controls inside and a chair.

motorcycles are louder tbh

I'd like to see the soccer parents drive that thing inyo the ground.

Easy fix! Coming soon.

Its the same as helicopters In the rain, its just a mini helicopter

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Sorry sir you born as person dont have creative mind..😆

Wait until Elon Musk comes out with his version!!!!

Don't worry, the kit will be cheaper. :)

you should check out Ehang 216 aav , this thing is a joke compare to 216,, they already operate in china! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/lZt7asah3cu8npc.html

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You must be very appreciative of living in a country that allows you to achieve such a goal if you have the desire and ability to do so as I'm sure you are aware this is not the case for the majority of the world's population.

Exactly

Finally

We're finally in the future friends

Except that when people were imagining flying cars of the future, they thought they would have some kind of gravity-defeating technology. This is not much different from a helicopter.

It's a damn drone

As somebody that drives through LA often, I can also say this is a very bad idea. Your craft will have air holes for 'cooling' each trip through the city.

imagine all the dried out bum piss and syringes it would fling everywhere.

Too noisy and it wouldn't even be allowed in a big city because of noise pollution

Anyone who decides to drive in Los Angeles is a poor decision maker by definition.

@Old chunk of coal. You're an idiot then, as some very smart people live in LA.

Underated/20

@Night Ghost Agree but it's super expensive

No Sam, they are not going to let people fly those things. Maybe a few uber rich, their personal assistants and some body guards. The drone program is strictly programmed. All automated, no piloting, not even for emergencies.

@WiseDee They did not copy eHang. the layout is a standard layout that people have been using to build heavy-lifter drones for ages see here for example. www.adorama.com/xfdrx8u11rtf.html

that contraption deserves very diciplined clapping

there is no such thing

*Co-worker continues to flip out while clapping*

Because at that time Sky held some trademarks in Internet Services since they were considering branching out in that sector.

Way to bust everyone's bubble dude

@@chasstiles7611 its not like anyone wants these pieces of shit flying around.

Imagine the accidents..... 😆

Imagine Antifa with them

if these things goes commercial i better shift into funeral business

What roof? This vehicle doesn’t appear to have one lol

@@avimech8546 roof of houses dumbass

Om Dave Yeah I was kidding, quite obviously. Doesn’t take the sharpest tool in the shed to figure that one out..

@@omdave1008 i see no houses here, dumbass, lmbo!

Farmers Insurance will cover that, they've seen everything. Pom panampam.

Yeah especially the one on cliffs

Paul Davis or worst, Crash landing on your rooftop!

Like my toy drone it is limited by it's battery capacity. George Jetson has nothing to worry about.

Why would they fly around your house? Anything interesting there?

@@SpokoSpoko I am saying if they try to turn these things into a common form of transportation, they will be flying over neighborhoods.

Paul Davis sorry, I was joking

One step at a time. Reasonable!

They’ll figure it out I’m sure, I was definitely thinking the same

Kind of intentional..... The scaffolding and mesh is likely there to intentionally disable the quadcopter in the case of a malfunction or loss of control so that bystanders and onlookers aren’t injured behind the glass. It allows for a reasonable barrier while still allowing natural elements into the test pad that are needed for testing in more realistic conditions.

@@jimyeats read again: open props in a meshed space. Pilot needs safety too. Common sense for drone operator of any size

Jake PK Rio The pilot is aware of the risks. You think he’s going to fair better crashing into a concrete wall?

@@jimyeats sigh. U obviously dont fly a drone. Open props don't "disable" the drone when they touch a solid. The unit will tilt and crash. Double props aren't meant as a reserve but as a power boost given the weight and speed desired. There are always risks in flying near solids, even a single wire is dangerous, no matter how the drone is steadied on hover. Risk can b mitigated by prop guards that'll protect them if the drone strays. Welcome.

No way she would believe it. Any good drone would Return To Home on loss of signal

No kidding? Mine is always getting hacked and lands at strip clubs, go figure.

Same thinking

Yep, drones are not easy to fly...hence this guy going slower speed than a walk to avoid a crash.

Gotta start somewhere

Well i never crash😂sometimes

The more expensive the more features they have. The bigger and more expensive drones have flight assist that make it ALOT easier to fly and this would be no different.

That’s literally why these will never be massed produced

It has 8 propellers. It's an octacopter.

@@yourdad7682 write my name in ur notebook because i commited the crime of not counting the blades in a flying car video. Where i saw no car at all.

That all can be fixed with computer and technology real quick.

@@rayravshanov Spinning blades? I'm thinking a spherical cage around each of the rotor pairs could add safety.

@@thudthud5423 aka A shroud, well designed it would increase the thrust/lower energy requirements. Permits thinking about flat-tipped blades too.

@@peterclark4685 For this design, I would think a hyperbolic shaped cage shroud (like an hourglass) would work consisting of an array of wire spokes forming to the shape of the shroud connected to metal rings at the top and bottom. The spokes would mostly be aligned vertically and spaced narrow enough to keep someone from bumping into the blades but wide enough to allow a good deal of airflow. I don't know enough about aerodynamics to say a solid shape would be capable of helping create thrust, so I'm thinking about allowing the maximum about of airflow. The wire cage would be strong enough to prevent serious damage or even flexible enough to provide a good amount of deflection in case of a collision with an object.

@@thudthud5423 Starting to get heavy I'd say. Eliminating the energy flow from one side of an aerofoil to the other at the tips needs only a barrier: that is what the design of those modern wing tips try to achieve. Cheers.

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Don't be a jealous usa hasnt done it lol its prototype

Yes , it needs wheels .

The tires might be too heavy to make it fly, since from the video it doesn't go up that much

Where does it say anything about a flying car ?

It never said it was a flying car. Adding wheels and electric motors to power the wheels, and everything else necessary to drive it on the streets would just add weight and bulk to a prototype that isn't a practical aircraft in the first place. This is just a technology demonstrator, better more energy dense batteries are necessary before something like this becomes practical, let alone capable of transitioning to ground driving.

Somewhere there is a bird waiting to fly into the propellers

I was thinking of something similar based on what's been seen in movies like 5th Element or Attack of the Clones where flying vehicles were generally shown following a certain flow and pattern

You mean alt right militia proof.

@@sladelefty *SIGH*

@O Al-Mousa you are so full of it. You haven’t a clue what you are talking about.worry about your own country. HAMAR.

I won't live to be around but I can't imagine the technology that will be here in another 50 years

It's not a drone either as drones are unmanned. It's a flying vehicle. Simple as that. A vehicle is a device used to transport people or things. Check. It flies. Check. Flying Vehicle.

It's not a drone it's a quadcopter

No one claimed it was

@@moonlitshrooms If it flies , it is an Aircraft

Too noisy. Too dangerous.

The wind 😄

That’s a wide net to cast. People can barely drive on the ground.. think about it.

We have well over a hundred years worth of experience with cars and things still go wrong so a lot CAN and will go wrong. That's why they're testing its up to people like them who have the capacity to test it and fix it instead of just sitting on their computers doing nothing but talk shit and add nothing to the progress of the world.

@@cn8299 lighten up francis.

Looks dangerous, count me in!

It ain’t new tho that’s why everyone disappointed it’s just a big drone

I'm actually proud. I don't criticize too early since this is obviously a starter version. It only serves to show us that the potential and possibility is there.

@@roccor9223 One YOU can fly in though!

Im just concerned about the propeller blades.

your comment will be true