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Can you imagine thousands of flying cars flying low over urban areas?

Skill level needed for "driving" would increase by a lot, noise levels would be abysmal, security implications would be severe (be they intentional or mechanical in nature), privacy implications would result in nobody wanting to have windows.

This is all more-or-less true for drones as well, but their weight is comparable to a todler, not to a polar bear. I firmly believe they'll never reach mass usage, but not because they're impossible to make.



That does sound truly awful. I already hate the noise of internal combustion cars and am looking forward to cars getting quieter.




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