Toyota investing $400 million in flying car company

thousands of cars zipping around above our heads. what could go wrong?

Distracted drivers are dangerous enough on the roads in 2-dimensions; can you imagine Facebooking fools and Instagram idiots staring at their stupidphones while operating motor vehicles in 3-D?

This article is misleading as they have invested in Air Taxi's. They are not cars and do not have the capacity to travel on roads as cars do. I whish they would get the terminology correct. Unless it flies AND drives on roads it is "NOT A FLYING CAR!"

...would be powered by hydrogen fuel cells and include roads for autonomous vehicles as well as smart homes.

Those homes are not only smart, but agile too!

Joby already has a partnership with ride-sharing firm Uber to develop an "urban air taxi service".

and everybody though Uber was dead in Japan, taxi drivers will be sweating about now

We have enough bad drivers on the road already. Now they want to expand that to the air? Insane.

Do we all need to localised Pilots lessons now ?

Will English be the defcato language ?

Will this limit the height of new SkyScrapers?

“For many of our challenges, we don’t need new technologies or new ideas; we need the will, foresight and courage to use the best of the old ideas”

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2020/jan/15/the-case-for-making-low-tech-dumb-cities-instead-of-smart-ones

That why they have helicopter, water of money on R and D

The noise ?

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It would be useful in island rooted zone or mountain, if the noise is tempered with. An actually, it would be more useful for an individual use.

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MMF