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What do you think of the iCar 101?
Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 2:13 am
by LaughingCheese
http://www.icar-101.com/icar/index.php? ... 01-Project
Cylindrical wings? Seriously?
The effect seems to be legit tho.
Re: What do you think of the iCar 101?
Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 7:16 am
by Vic
Ah, Magnus Effect wings, finally a modern application for it.
Re: What do you think of the iCar 101?
Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 10:31 am
by Teaos
I would like it more if it wasnt called an iCar...
Re: What do you think of the iCar 101?
Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 5:15 pm
by RK_Striker_JK_5
Meet George Jetson...
Re: What do you think of the iCar 101?
Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 7:03 pm
by LaughingCheese
Teaos wrote:I would like it more if it wasnt called an iCar...
LOL
So you guys think this will work?
Why has no one thought of this before?
If it works at human scale, it should work on the RC scale right? That would be fascinating...
Re: What do you think of the iCar 101?
Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 3:04 pm
by Tyyr
People have thought about this many, many times. This isn't the first flying car idea and it wouldn't even be the first one to work. The problem is that flying cars are horribly compromised cars and airplanes. They have to be built to automobile crash standards and aircraft standards and also imagine for a moment giving your average driver three times the speed, wings, and an entire third dimension to navigate and imagine the cluster fuck.
Re: What do you think of the iCar 101?
Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 4:17 pm
by RK_Striker_JK_5
Yeah. There is NO WAY I would trust most people to pilot/drive a flying car. i wouldn't trust myself, for god's sake.
Re: What do you think of the iCar 101?
Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 6:34 pm
by Teaos
Flyings car have always been and will always be, logistically impossible.
Re: What do you think of the iCar 101?
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 12:32 am
by RK_Striker_JK_5
Teaos wrote:Flyings car have always been and will always be, logistically impossible.
Agreed. Doesn't stop people from trying such a boondoggle.
Re: What do you think of the iCar 101?
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 9:20 pm
by kostmayer
The only halfway viable flying vehicle I've seen is the PAL-V One. Its a Gyrocopter that transforms into a 2 man car / motorcyle thing. Runs on gasoline, flys below the level of commercial traffic and doesn't need a full length runway.
Begs the question why you would need such a vehicle, but it does look halfway practical.
Re: What do you think of the iCar 101?
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 11:59 pm
by RK_Striker_JK_5
kostmayer wrote:The only halfway viable flying vehicle I've seen is the PAL-V One. Its a Gyrocopter that transforms into a 2 man car / motorcyle thing. Runs on gasoline, flys below the level of commercial traffic and doesn't need a full length runway.
Begs the question why you would need such a vehicle, but it does look halfway practical.
Well, why do people need half the crap they buy?
Re: What do you think of the iCar 101?
Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 2:03 pm
by Tyyr
Why wouldn't you want such a vehicle? You've got a car for around town use but anytime you need to take a drive of any significance you can fly instead and get there in half the time. I just had to drive to Kentucky to visit family. A few hours by air would have beat two days by car. Hell, even some shorter commutes could be reduced greatly if the option to fly was there. Visiting my inlaws an hour and a half away? How about a short drive to the local airport 5 minutes from me. Fly half an hour to the little airport near them, then just drive the five minutes to their house. Forty minutes of travel instead of 90. Sounds good to me.
Re: What do you think of the iCar 101?
Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 2:36 pm
by Tsukiyumi
Advanced autopilot. 'Nuff said.
Re: What do you think of the iCar 101?
Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 8:00 pm
by kostmayer
Tyyr wrote:Why wouldn't you want such a vehicle? You've got a car for around town use but anytime you need to take a drive of any significance you can fly instead and get there in half the time. I just had to drive to Kentucky to visit family. A few hours by air would have beat two days by car. Hell, even some shorter commutes could be reduced greatly if the option to fly was there. Visiting my inlaws an hour and a half away? How about a short drive to the local airport 5 minutes from me. Fly half an hour to the little airport near them, then just drive the five minutes to their house. Forty minutes of travel instead of 90. Sounds good to me.
True enough, though most concepts I've seen aren't flying cars, so much as Planes that are road worth. Not much use around town. I could see something like the PAL - V being used as such though. Particularly with an Autopilot function.
Re: What do you think of the iCar 101?
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 1:04 am
by RK_Striker_JK_5
Tyyr wrote:Why wouldn't you want such a vehicle? You've got a car for around town use but anytime you need to take a drive of any significance you can fly instead and get there in half the time. I just had to drive to Kentucky to visit family. A few hours by air would have beat two days by car. Hell, even some shorter commutes could be reduced greatly if the option to fly was there. Visiting my inlaws an hour and a half away? How about a short drive to the local airport 5 minutes from me. Fly half an hour to the little airport near them, then just drive the five minutes to their house. Forty minutes of travel instead of 90. Sounds good to me.
Because I don't trust myself/half the drivers out there to pilot it safely.