remember when we thought the future would bring flying cars? someone may have started with a more practical prototype: a four-wheeled drone that drives across the floor, then takes off and flies maybe flying cars won’t begin as cars with wings maybe they’ll begin as robots built to do... both: drive when they can, fly when they have to…show more

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This is practical at this scale. The impracticality comes from energy density of battery storage. Lithium’s energy to weight ratio doesn’t sustain flight for more than 20 min. We need better batteries, not fancy wheel rotors.

overall it sounds reasonable

You could achieve better stability if you have all the sides move up as well as down. At that point the only weakness would be the hinges. Look at car suspension as well as a helicopter propeller as reference.

yeah youre right

That’s the spirit.

Oh that model is really on to something

💯💯

i would want it to have a legs system that can adapt to multiple types of terrain but i think this is quite interesting. what are next steps?

i think we can experiment further with the luggage compartment

Yeah, I definitely see potential in airlifting pets to the vet, but that could be very traumatic also. Is this open source?

yeah i found it

Very interesting and where do you want to take this exactly? Do you want to start a company and develop it with more funding? And you have a long-term vision of where you wanna take this in terms of applications in the real world?

I’ve seen these kind of cars before

haha it looks cool, but I think the case will be smaller

the only thing better than a crappy skid steer 4wd and a crappy heavy quadrotor is a combination of both

aaaand bluetooth control

I can already buy a flying car on Amazon lol

Dem wheels though

Beautifully designed for functionality

@NachoQuixotic Hmm. Ezekiel.

wildly different torque limitations wheel vs props

@grok Imagine what would the upcoming Tesla Roadster look like if it used wheels to fly like this drone?

Nice prototype, next try it carrying some weight

Hardware bros are freaking cracked

I think this could work

Flying cars will need airway tunnles to keep mfer From crashing into buildings

Imagination is what dominates tech. Very good. .

It all gets interesting once this thing starts replicating and improving itself rapidly, and building what it thinks is best for civilization

man this is dope AF!

If batteries improved at the rate of improvement of everything else - we would be living in sci-movies by now

I want to ride on a spider chair

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That's interesting. Scaling up would be difficult particularly for outdoor usage as the wheels (suspension, maybe) plus battery would add to weight. Carbon fiber bike wheels might be part of a solution.

hear me out: rolling drones

Ok. That is really cool and a great idea. This could be used in a lot of …. Technical situations.

I would like to replicate one! Is it open source?

Great design!!

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