{"id":7452,"date":"2017-02-08T17:49:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T16:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=7452"},"modified":"2017-02-08T17:49:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T16:49:11","slug":"flying-cars-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=7452","title":{"rendered":"Flying cars and other stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Moller_Skycar_M400\"<\/a>I heard an article on flying cars on the news yesterday morning.\u00a0 It started off with a news report from 1949 so the concept has been around since at least then.\u00a0 I’m not an engineer or physicist but they spoke to someone who was.\u00a0 There are a number of problems with this concept I’m glad to say.<\/p>\n

The first is that flying cars would have to take off vertically to be practical (otherwise they will be confined to airports which limits their usefulness).\u00a0 This take-off would be extremely noisy so our expert said, somewhere between the noise levels of a harrier jump jet and a helicopter.\u00a0 Unacceptable in urban areas.\u00a0 The second problem is that this vertical take would take a lot of fuel.\u00a0 Then there are safety concerns although the expert thought they would not have to learn to fly, I do due to emergencies (this also raises issues with driverless cars in the long term)<\/p>\n

This got me thinking about delivery drones.\u00a0 These will obviously have to take off and land vertically.\u00a0 One of the questions I have raised about delivery drones is will vans worth of drones delivering individual items be more energy efficient than a van going around with the same number of items?\u00a0 I am more confident it would not be and that is one more reason to oppose this stupidity.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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