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2025-03-23 Science & Technology

Radical new tech brings flying cars closer to reality

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-03-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11138 views ] Top

#1 "Or perhaps, after a lifetime of waiting for your flying car, you scrawl your signature on the clipboard held by a smiling delivery robot, ease behind the wheel... and are promptly locked in and autodriven straight to Lubyanka as you mouth mute protests to passing pigeons."

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Posted by Pancho Poodle8452 2025-03-23 08:27|| 2025-03-23 08:27|| Front Page Top

#2 ^ This is why SteveS' First Law of Robotics is "All machines must have an off switch".
It stops events like the above, as well as preventing various Terminator-like scenarios.

Posted by SteveS 2025-03-23 11:46|| 2025-03-23 11:46|| Front Page Top

#3 What the article call "CycloRotors" actually reminded me of a "Voith-Schneider propellers". Lookig further, i find that "CycloRotors" is actually an old conceptfirst used in 1928 and is used nowadays in many applications, including the CycloTech concept.

So "radical new tech", I think not.

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2025-03-23 14:08|| 2025-03-23 14:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Thinking about this, I realized tat the cyclorotor concept would be great on the Osprey, replacing the dangerous 'gyroscopic propellers.

Add a third cyclorotor to the rear to help with 'center of gravity' issues.

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2025-03-23 19:57|| 2025-03-23 19:57|| Front Page Top

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