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Plain English with Derek Thompson cover image

Are Flying Cars Finally Here?

Plain English with Derek Thompson

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The Challenge of Adapting Infrastructure for Flying Cars

Flying personal vehicles are not a seamless extension of ground-based automobiles due to the complex networked infrastructure required for safe operations. Adapting this infrastructure to the skies poses challenges in terms of noise, safety, and scalability. Additionally, ideas like EVTAL buses reveal that the concept of flying vehicles may unintentionally lead back to existing technologies like airplanes, indicating a reluctance to disrupt long-standing transportation systems.

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