Monday, March 12, 2018
Perpetual stupidity
ZH features the latest repetition of the stupidest idea since perpetual motion.
During the 87th Geneva International Motor Show, Audi and Airbus partnered with Italdesign to premiere Pop.Up Next, the first modular, fully electric, zero-emission concept vehicle system designed to alleviate traffic congestion in large populated areas. The vehicle is a two-seat pod that can quickly snap into a chassis with four wheels and autonomous driving technology for roadway travel, or easily converts to a quadcopter drone for flying. While Audi has yet to release details on speed, altitude or range, the overall progress of flying cars seems to be a reality in the not too distant future.Flying cars have been an idiotic dream of idiots for exactly 100 years. This latest version is NO BETTER than any of the previous versions. It won't solve congestion because you CAN'T FUCKING USE IT. The snap-on winged section WILL NOT FIT IN STREETS AND HIGHWAYS. If you have to return to your garage and pick up the winged part before resuming your journey by air, you haven't relieved congestion at all. In fact you have added more miles to your fashionable 900-mile commute. The pictures show an alternate quad-copter version, which is STILL TOO LARGE TO DRIVE IN TRAFFIC. If all cars are equipped with these things, it would alleviate congestion because you could only fit about 1/4 as many cars on the road. You can get that result much more easily by improving public transit. Tech-tyrants will NEVER improve public transit because public transit is solely for Deplorables. Deplorables are NEGATIVE EXTERNALITIES which must be detected and vaporized using AI, so there's no possible reason for transportation and houses and jobs to serve NEGATIVE EXTERNALITIES. If you can achieve a VTOL vehicle that fits into exactly the same 3d boundaries as a regular car, and can ALWAYS take off and land without hitting powerlines and trees, and can ALWAYS automatically merge into traffic when it lands, then you might get somewhere. This latest mess by Audi doesn't get anywhere. ¶ 12:36 AM
