If you simply add retractable wings then you could glide to the ground in an engine failure. He seems stuck on the no wings thing. Is it Blimp without the blimp there?
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You know, I don't really see flight control being taken out of the equation. In fact if you combine the GPS navigation system with a transponder, you could get a proximity and trajectory sensor for one car versus others. The transponder would also broadcast an ID, kind of like an airborne license plate.
i still remember seeing and hearing about the skycar many many many years ago, im talking back in the 90's and i've always thought they were awesome. I hope im around when they, or something of the like comes into widespread use.
Not good enough, and old technology, and even if it was good enough, where is it?
We need to stop waiting and start demanding that serious personal flight tech be brought to everyone immediately. It's available if people push for it. Personal flight machines, must be free to roam the air.
Driving to a mini airport and programming in a destination is not acceptable.
People want to fly, and they should have been doing it long ago.
The stockholders he mentioned are going to be very dissapointed.
The main reason why I dont believe in this is that it will always be inefficient and noisy due to the engines small diameter. m*g=rho*A*v^2 will tell you that even if each engine is 60cm in diameter the flow velocity is still 319km/h!!!
For an Osprey it is 116km/h. See the difference??
...and not to mention the wing size and layout.
This idea is flawed on so many levels it's impressive he found anyone to invest. Just look at his homepage, it's full of fantasy figures.
three hundred miles an hour at twenty five thousand feet... notice his body language when he said that- he turns his left side to the audience a little, as if daring them to disbelieve. Well, I do. you want to go twenty five thousand feet in a plane the size of a minivan? Really? better have a parachute on that puppy
moller put alot of effort into trying to make it happen, however i don't think everyone can afford a flying vehicle for over $300k. I'm looking at alternatives, The taxi type system works the best, Where companies would own the expensives pieces of machinery including maintenance, There would be a booth to call for a ride, the auto piloted vehicle would land in that area, pickup the people and ferry them to their location. His vehicle doesn't look safe though, and it doesn't have enough funding.
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THE HILLER FLYING PLATFORM IS THE ONLY REAL HOPE FOR THE FLYING CAR. IT'S BEEN DONE IN 1955 AND SO STABLE YOU CAN AIM AND FIRE A RIFLE WHILE IN A CONTROLLED HOVER. YOUR UAV IS BASED ON THE FLYING PLATFORM. SEE justwantahover CHANNEL FOR 10 DESIGNS BASED ON IT. SEE YOUTUBE VIDEOS OF NASA TESTING OF FLYING PLATFORM.
This concept is genius and with some tweaking would work tomorrow, but the only problem is; how long it would take to commercialise. If it was for sale not every single person would go out a buy one, nor would they have the money, so that would mean mass producing them and manufacturing the navigation system to keep it safe would not nearly be economically viable. The car took 30 years to commercialise and to stop people using horses. So this just isnt realistic in the next 40 years.
Seems to me that his would significantly increase our fossil fuel usage, per person, at a time when the availability of cheap/easy-to-find oil is becoming more and more scarce. Not exactly the smartest thing.
50 mile plus trips are often done by lorries, delivery drivers, families going on holidays with luggage or people going on trips with bikes etc. it's a nice concept but it would require a bit more room than it has!
One problem that is pretty apparent when you look at the design of moller's skycars is that there is nothing to give it lift for when it is actually supposed to fly(not just hover). I think it is a good idea, but more work needs to be done to make a better model.
I think it is pretty good idea, exept for the fact that car crashes are bad enough. Now if we take it to the skies, people wouldn't have high-jack an airliner to recreate 9/11...
Moeller has the same idea that has been around for a long time. I just rechecked his website after oh 3 years and a new video has this thing untethered and it loud as hell. He says 65db(goal) yea good luck with that. No way people would go for those loud ass things in a neighborhood. I know I would be pissed.
the REAL fly cars are what we call UFO once this secret technology is replaced by something better the Government will release it to the public. it just what happened to the internet, cell phones with camera and video and digital touch screens the governments were the only entities to have access to them on the past.. I guess we have to wait 50 or 100 more years to own our own UFO
@SukhvirSingh13 I'm sure people will find out how to modify these for manual flight if the option is not given for people with valid pilot licenses and training.
BobbyFromNJ: Smart! Thank you for paying attention and for staying optimistic.
shon231: Dumb! The Harrier Jump Jet may have been the first to use VTOL in this way, but it's not the same thing.
I understand that a lot of you are pessimistic about this, but wasn't it the same way about flying in the 19th century. Back then, flying was a ridicules dream and would never be achieved. But on the 17th of December, 1903, Orville Wright completed the first controlled flight in history. Stay optimistic
I've been seeing this damn thing since I was in highschool 30 years ago when they were asking for investors with $1000. I wonder what those investors got for their bucks. First time I have seen it without a tether line. If it did work, it would be regulated to death because "it looks dangerous."
Im sorry, but bankruptcy is not, "failure" it is mearly financial ruin.
You see, before there were seat belts, alternating headlights and other creature comforts that you see in our cars today, they came from a man named, "Tucker". The big car companies used PR agents and basically crushed him to financial ruin, however, they stole his inventions and we use them today without thinking about where they come from.
that thing would always be expensive and who the fuck buys flying cars..and they already invented a helicopter and I only know one person that owns one.. so give up your dream Paul
Ask Mr Moller about the over heating probs on his Fantastic Engines! The only Efficient thing moller produces is Utter Bull Crap!! I think the S.E.C. should take another look at this Snake oil salesman.
What happened to the Autogyro? They're much simpler, cheaper, more fuel efficient and can be made to take off and land on a very short runway.
Of course, even with a working skycar, the big problem I predict is crowded airspace! If you have hundreds or thousands of these flying into and out of city limits, the risk of collisions would probably be a lot greater than I'd care to accept. Trying to control traffic into some pattern just slows it down to the point it's no faster than cars.
So in another 40+ years and $200 mil, that thing will actually move forward? Amazing. Some day, maybe Moller's SkyCar will perform as good as Hiller's flying platform from 1955 (watch?v=aFS6pMvkjo8).
This guy gives underachievers a bad name. He's the envy of every Nigerian banker though.
Moller must be running low on funds again. Time to fleece some more suckers aka "investors."
This jerk has been taking people's money for 30+ years, always promising that his skycar is "just around the corner." The guy should be in prison by now.
Moller has been saying the same exact thing for over 30 years. He is completely wrong about air travel, his ideas for flight are not viable. He has no comprehension of what society needs in the form of flying cars.
How can you say that this is a Piece of Crap?? The Tech involved in this baby is extremely impressive. It Has 4 WANKER engines that run on Bull Crap. The only problem with running on Bull Shit is that not many gas stations are stocking it at this time? So the only way of toping up tank is to go directly to mollers mouth..... Although i have heard that his mouth n ass are as one? so at least you have two options!
In March of 1944, Nicholas Alkemade was the tail gunner in a British Lancaster bomber on a night mission to Berlin when his plane was attacked by German fighters. When the captain ordered the crew to bail out, Alkemade looked back into the plane and discovered that his parachute was in flames. He chose to jump without a parachute rather than to stay in the burning plane. He fell 18,000 feet, landing in trees, underbrush, and drifted snow. He twisted his knee and had some cuts, otherwise fine.
These "cars" are so called volantors, a new class of power-lift aircraft. A small, compact VTOL personal air vehicle, that flies automatically, with the aid of computers (advanced software, programming, etc.) , sensors and electronic/virtual "airways", using GPS and internet like technology.
well, it's crashing into things that is dangerous, it's not a given speed that's a hazard, it's changing speed too fast (ie: smacking into something, or for that matter being at a standstill and having something fast hit you).
If you're 3 miles up, gravity will take a while to bring you down, especially with a chute.
There are stories of people falling from 25,000 feet with no chute, and they've survived if they've had their fall broken by snow or a glass roof.
A good suggestion, and it's safe. But helium is unfortunately quite expensive, and they'll need it already for the blimps and airships in the future, for goods and raw material transport through the sky.
poor guy.. there are so many obstacles to moving to the flying car.. but press on ..actually i like the Israeli one better with the fan in the middle pointing down.. but factor in weather and wind and they all have problems...
they have these now, if we are learning of this then it's been around for at least a decade. that is just the way it has gone since the begining of stolen knowledge kept from the public for the elite who cant wait for the culling to be done w/so they can break out w/this kind of technology and into mt. rushmoore to make condo which they will fly their cars right into.
Vegasoon... Moller's website tells us that his most advanced vehicle still has not transitioned from a hover to forward flight. Now, if you wanted to prove the concept and bolster investor confidence in this thing, I would guess that you would START with that, rather than day dream more body configurations and focus on sleek Euro Styling. Make an ugly prototype that PERFORMS!!!!
Anyone else notice how his prototype vehicles from the 60's 70's and 80's look a lot like UFOs? I wonder how many people saw one of these flying around and thought it was a UFO....
Psilo... I think the number of people who mistook the saucer Skycar for UFOs could be accurately estimated at somewhere around ZERO. This thing never flew beyond the confines of that little yard.
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Also, the idea that everyone needs to have a flying car is ridiculous. Our economy can barely support having all these relatively simple motor vehicles. Simply put we don't have the economic power to give everyone their own flying car. This will be a toy for the rich, and that's it. You can't be egalitarian about such a machine as this. It is not a car and it's stupid to treat it as such.
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You don't realize...its an economic impossibility for at least the next 50 years. Cars are extraordinarily cheap to produce vs. a flying car. I can't see these technologies as being cheap enough for car like numbers today in a very long time.
that how everything starts... when the first ever cars came out... it was only the rich folks driving it... then eventually as more and more cars came out the prices started to get lower... you sound like my grand pa telling me that his horse drawn carriage is way better than my 2nd hand car... hahahaha...
This guy is an absolute KOOK--working on his worthless design for several decades and $40 million with absolutely NOTHING to show for it. A waste of resources--milking gullible shareholders out of their money. This car he so confidently speaks of has never been flown untethered by a crane! This guy, sadly, needs to get a life.
I admire his determination, and the machine would be bad-ass, but I remember seeing this on the cover of popular mechanics as a kid in 1991, looking just as it does now.
Automation will make this more practical, but I think there is still a long way to go. Fuel efficiency is also a major issue today.
Also, if you already have to go to a volanterport, why not just take a little electric car and fly a more efficient aircraft with high aspect ratio wings?
Absolutely would be a wonderful concept. I think after such a thing is completed we would have to use imminent domain to make long stretches of some kind of barren road system that would allow for such a vehicle to drop safely without causing damage.
This would have to be on AUTOPILOT ONLY! No person should be allowed to drive this themselves.
Fuel efficiency, well we have it already. Geo-thermal energy with electric engines. Safety will come much later but we know it is possible.
bad idea. boring conference. only kids would think of such a bad idea: a flying car??? wtf, so useless and disconnected with the needs of consumers. it's just a nice idea for kids (COOOOL :PPPP) in cartoons, just like transformers or star trek.
and so not fuel efficient, and sooo dangerous if it falls wtf!! lol
yeah seriously, using a gasoline motor on a metal frame instead of a horse. putting gas stations on every corner. dream on person. that will only happen in comic books! wink wink
hehe yeah, for sure. but the thing is we CAN do it today but won't because we don't NEED this thing. it's a matter of demand: the market. people don't need this thing. cause 1/way too expensive, and consumes lots of energy, 2/it's really dangerous if you fall, and people will be kind of afraid. maybe one day yes, but for now staying attached to this prototype may be a bit 'unreasonable' right now--that's my impression. but one day...yep I'm pretty sure we will!
All those people sitting in horrible traffic jams everyday, eating op massive amounts of time, money and fuel.... and creating emissions.
Living on a rural/remote/residential, lowly crowded area wich is affordable, while be able to commute to work, in a densely crowded, very expensive area hundreds of miles away, every day. Wouldn't that be good?
This guy has been touting this thing on Coast to Coast AM for decades and needs a crane to get it off the ground. He's always looking for investers. If he could get one model to just fly off properly he would get all the money he needs. They made a working car in England which is going to drive and fly down to Africa. But it tows a glider wing like 30 feet behind it.
this is insanity! Look at the dust it kicks up,, the noise,(think 100 ) can you say maglev, can you say public transit. The car and individual transport jhas isolated all of us. Go wankle!
It's not really energy efficient for everyone to have their own flying cars. Hell, we can barely support having all these cars. Do you really think we need these flying machines? Also people are idiots. Do we really need to give them the ability to fly around?
I'm saying we can barely support a relatively simple machine, compared to a much more complex one. Everyone is going to now want their own flying car, something that's just not possible for at least the next 20 years. Flying buses would make more sense, economically. I think the days of the car are ending, and there will never be another mode of transportation like it.
Plus fuel consumption will decrease with newer, further developed models in the future after the first models entered the market.
(sure, it first starts with the happy few, a toy for the wealthiests among us, then the upper class (100k's of income each year), the upper-middle class, and eventually the normal working class, the average citizens.)
Look, people are generally stupid. There are enough car accidents and car related deaths already, why would you give idiots a highly sophisticated and possibly dangerous machine...that can fly? Why not give everyone their own Cessna and pilots license?!
It's bad enough that idiots can drive around, I would hate to see what would happen if they flew around.
If you paid attention you would have seen that the aircraft would be under strict control of a nav system and under no circumstance would it be piloted by any passenger. It wouldn't be too hard to accomplish at first while air traffic was low.
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Still doesn't take care of the economics of the issue, which is that it's barely feasible for people to have cars, economically. It's completely unrealistic that sky cars will be available like a toyota or honda. It will be available for the rich only. Given the fact the common person bitches about the price of gas there's no possible way a skycar could be maintained/fueled etc without great expense.
So... This takes more energy than a car to operate... at a time where you guys want to get rid of dependency on foreign oil and maybe limit carbon emissions?
This kind of a project is not likely to happen unless the energy industry makes enormous breakthrough.
This guy has been trying to market this freaking "sky car" for the last twenty-five years and, like working fusion reactors, it's no closer to actually being able to fly than it was twenty-five years ago.
All that's changes is that he's got better computer graphics of the non-existent, non-flying sky car to raise more money to use in not actually building it.
#1 problem is power source and power supply. Flying everyone around takes lots of energy per mile, and there is no reliable power source now available to make this possible.
Lets think about electric cars and a wind energy supplied grid as a far more achievable transportation goal.
Maybe in 300 years this will be somehow possible. Problems are safety, noise, cost, what fuel/energy (not fossil) to use, pollution needs to be very small ect...
There's a difference between a disbeliever and someone who has waited years and years to see this invention do more than hover tests.
u2bist 1 week ago
Winkel engines have been used by Mazda since the late 70's. They purchased it from Yamaha who produced a rotary engine motorcycle for a couple years.
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CrazyCredibleUFOs 1 week ago
the cg sequence was good, and also combined with live action by the way.
creativeprojects720 1 month ago
they have a new harrier jump jet they just made, called the f 35. it can take of vertically.
creativeprojects720 1 month ago
Why did the CG sequence look worse than the 80's?
lkewis 2 months ago
Also, couldnt he afford a P.R. Guy geezz. Would he do well to have someone give his speech for him? Sheesh even Moses had Aaron....
mattmoore111 2 months ago
If you simply add retractable wings then you could glide to the ground in an engine failure. He seems stuck on the no wings thing. Is it Blimp without the blimp there?
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lightandbeautiful 3 months ago
Maybe if after 30 years your flying car could actually fly, that might help your pitch.
TimArmst 3 months ago
you need an energy generator as a magnetic engine that makes a dynamo create de energy to supply electric motor
bbbdourado 4 months ago
You know, I don't really see flight control being taken out of the equation. In fact if you combine the GPS navigation system with a transponder, you could get a proximity and trajectory sensor for one car versus others. The transponder would also broadcast an ID, kind of like an airborne license plate.
Chunkboi 4 months ago
i still remember seeing and hearing about the skycar many many many years ago, im talking back in the 90's and i've always thought they were awesome. I hope im around when they, or something of the like comes into widespread use.
kineticdeath 5 months ago
I suspect the gov't already is using it. Military or other
bodtech01 5 months ago
"...if we could get rid of the 50-80+ miles"!
We should be encouraging bicycling....not "flying"!
1robchr1 5 months ago
I think I will reinvent his skycar .
hanoimuaxuan 5 months ago
Thumbs up if you will own a flying car in your lifetime!
newmantopia 6 months ago 25
Not good enough, and old technology, and even if it was good enough, where is it?
We need to stop waiting and start demanding that serious personal flight tech be brought to everyone immediately. It's available if people push for it. Personal flight machines, must be free to roam the air.
Driving to a mini airport and programming in a destination is not acceptable.
People want to fly, and they should have been doing it long ago.
The stockholders he mentioned are going to be very dissapointed.
AlkPacino 7 months ago
@AlkPacino you dumbfuck id like to see you invent a flying car go ahead and do it stop bitching
itsraininglool 4 months ago
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Calm down, you'll hurt yourself
AlkPacino 4 months ago
The main reason why I dont believe in this is that it will always be inefficient and noisy due to the engines small diameter. m*g=rho*A*v^2 will tell you that even if each engine is 60cm in diameter the flow velocity is still 319km/h!!!
For an Osprey it is 116km/h. See the difference??
...and not to mention the wing size and layout.
This idea is flawed on so many levels it's impressive he found anyone to invest. Just look at his homepage, it's full of fantasy figures.
earloftea 8 months ago
three hundred miles an hour at twenty five thousand feet... notice his body language when he said that- he turns his left side to the audience a little, as if daring them to disbelieve. Well, I do. you want to go twenty five thousand feet in a plane the size of a minivan? Really? better have a parachute on that puppy
pikiwiki 9 months ago
moller put alot of effort into trying to make it happen, however i don't think everyone can afford a flying vehicle for over $300k. I'm looking at alternatives, The taxi type system works the best, Where companies would own the expensives pieces of machinery including maintenance, There would be a booth to call for a ride, the auto piloted vehicle would land in that area, pickup the people and ferry them to their location. His vehicle doesn't look safe though, and it doesn't have enough funding.
EpiDemic117 9 months ago
"60 years later im here to tell you why its possible" and 11 years after that...still no flying car.
maikeru01 9 months ago
@bobmarleyt3 Some are skeptics and some are anti flying car. They think a vtol with no exposed rotor blades is more dangerous than an open rotor chopper. I suppose we could have safer cars if they had no mudguards. SEE YOUTUBE VIDEOS BY justwantahover FOR 10 CHEAP AND EASY FLYING CAR DESIGNS.
Justwantahover 9 months ago
THE HILLER FLYING PLATFORM IS THE ONLY REAL HOPE FOR THE FLYING CAR. IT'S BEEN DONE IN 1955 AND SO STABLE YOU CAN AIM AND FIRE A RIFLE WHILE IN A CONTROLLED HOVER. YOUR UAV IS BASED ON THE FLYING PLATFORM. SEE justwantahover CHANNEL FOR 10 DESIGNS BASED ON IT. SEE YOUTUBE VIDEOS OF NASA TESTING OF FLYING PLATFORM.
Justwantahover 9 months ago
the future is now!
actigene2 10 months ago
if i dont get a viper i deffinitly want a sky car :D
KINGELAXO 10 months ago
That is sweet but I really don't want to be controlled by a GPS.
Jakobster00 1 year ago
they sell moller skycars on firebox.com! £324,000! so good!
LHB2311 1 year ago
This concept is genius and with some tweaking would work tomorrow, but the only problem is; how long it would take to commercialise. If it was for sale not every single person would go out a buy one, nor would they have the money, so that would mean mass producing them and manufacturing the navigation system to keep it safe would not nearly be economically viable. The car took 30 years to commercialise and to stop people using horses. So this just isnt realistic in the next 40 years.
ATrippyRacoon 1 year ago
Seems to me that his would significantly increase our fossil fuel usage, per person, at a time when the availability of cheap/easy-to-find oil is becoming more and more scarce. Not exactly the smartest thing.
7eardstapa7 1 year ago
@7eardstapa7
actually the skycar runs on 100% ethanol
synysterapple775 1 year ago
50 mile plus trips are often done by lorries, delivery drivers, families going on holidays with luggage or people going on trips with bikes etc. it's a nice concept but it would require a bit more room than it has!
sweatykev01 1 year ago
car x plane = helicopter =.=''
emoboi951 1 year ago
@emoboi951 I didn't know you could drive around a helicopter?
TTUsucks88 1 year ago
@emoboi951
Idiot + internet = Asshole posting shit over internet.
ableite 1 year ago
One problem that is pretty apparent when you look at the design of moller's skycars is that there is nothing to give it lift for when it is actually supposed to fly(not just hover). I think it is a good idea, but more work needs to be done to make a better model.
ajtag0117 1 year ago
this guy is full of shit and robbing share holders
thomasuras 1 year ago
I think it is pretty good idea, exept for the fact that car crashes are bad enough. Now if we take it to the skies, people wouldn't have high-jack an airliner to recreate 9/11...
JimmyDean4hotdog 1 year ago
Dear Paul Moller, If you wish to make the skycar more popular, take a public speaking class.
Doncolto 1 year ago
roads where were going we dont need roads
MultiPlaystationman 1 year ago
Moeller has the same idea that has been around for a long time. I just rechecked his website after oh 3 years and a new video has this thing untethered and it loud as hell. He says 65db(goal) yea good luck with that. No way people would go for those loud ass things in a neighborhood. I know I would be pissed.
hotdog2020 1 year ago
I've been following this for the last 15 years....this will NEVER come to pass.
Dreams from a Dreamer...
globalcompressor 1 year ago
the REAL fly cars are what we call UFO once this secret technology is replaced by something better the Government will release it to the public. it just what happened to the internet, cell phones with camera and video and digital touch screens the governments were the only entities to have access to them on the past.. I guess we have to wait 50 or 100 more years to own our own UFO
telectronicguy 1 year ago
I like the concept, but i would like it better if i could pilot the thing myself, rather than a computer flying it for me
SukhvirSingh13 1 year ago
@SukhvirSingh13 Well, you probably could. After a lot of classes. And money.
ivnuzi 1 year ago
@SukhvirSingh13 I'm sure people will find out how to modify these for manual flight if the option is not given for people with valid pilot licenses and training.
Venim0 1 year ago
The disbelievers always just get in the way or make it all take longer to happen.
ehcmier 1 year ago
BobbyFromNJ: Smart! Thank you for paying attention and for staying optimistic.
shon231: Dumb! The Harrier Jump Jet may have been the first to use VTOL in this way, but it's not the same thing.
I understand that a lot of you are pessimistic about this, but wasn't it the same way about flying in the 19th century. Back then, flying was a ridicules dream and would never be achieved. But on the 17th of December, 1903, Orville Wright completed the first controlled flight in history. Stay optimistic
Filiptheone 1 year ago
IDIOT!!!!!!!!! JUMPJET HAD THE CONCEPT FIRST,.
shon231 1 year ago
I've been seeing this damn thing since I was in highschool 30 years ago when they were asking for investors with $1000. I wonder what those investors got for their bucks. First time I have seen it without a tether line. If it did work, it would be regulated to death because "it looks dangerous."
matoman5 1 year ago
When you write "skycar" on your vehicle, what should press call it ?
tahirphysio 1 year ago
LauraBeachnut 1 year ago
I used to have a lot of respect for TED not anymore, Moller is a KNOWN FRAUD!!! come on bankrupcy filed, the car is a failure!!!
Paramedicguy 1 year ago
@Paramedicguy
Im sorry, but bankruptcy is not, "failure" it is mearly financial ruin.
You see, before there were seat belts, alternating headlights and other creature comforts that you see in our cars today, they came from a man named, "Tucker". The big car companies used PR agents and basically crushed him to financial ruin, however, they stole his inventions and we use them today without thinking about where they come from.
Bankruptcy does no mean failure.
Look at the life of Walt Disney!
LauraBeachnut 1 year ago 2
that thing would always be expensive and who the fuck buys flying cars..and they already invented a helicopter and I only know one person that owns one.. so give up your dream Paul
transworld20 1 year ago
the skys would be wayyyyy to crouded.
rockwellsays1 1 year ago
In the skycar rescue wouldnt the jet engines be to loud for the person to just walk in that little cramp spot like he is walking through a door
AverageSuscriber17 1 year ago
i love it!!! COOL
abmz1970 1 year ago 3
Was there anything this cool at TED 2010?
henik9 1 year ago
He looks like James Hetfield's grandpa.
mastrodonte113 2 years ago
Ooh, he's a smooth little prick, isn't he.
He should have said that the difference between the helicopter and the Skycar is that the helicopter actually works!
This guy makes Jim Bede look like Mother Theresa!
schlusselmensch 2 years ago
@schlusselmensch
Of course he's smooth! :)
He's had decades to practice his BS presentation.
geonerd 1 year ago
i think its a great idea. to all disbelievers FUCK YOU
bobmarleyt3 2 years ago 34
@bobmarleyt3 Hey tough guy, how much of your money are YOU willing to invest? LOL!
geonerd 1 year ago
@bobmarleyt3
wtf, why wouldn't anyone believe this.. it's just obvious that this exists, it's just not profitable or advanced enough yet..
Yeah, we go to the moon in a rocket, but ow yeah, that's recorded in a studio, right..
radiac93 1 year ago
@bobmarleyt3 That's very un-Marley, brother.
bclosz 7 months ago
@bobmarleyt3 You are intitled to your opinion but you could express yourself more intelligently.
schaskins1 1 month ago
@schaskins1 what undermines his intelligence?
CrazyCredibleUFOs 1 week ago
Fuck you, add a gd flight stick or gtfo w/ ure gay ass invention. Im a pilot wanna be and i wanna fucking fly bitch
Brant0024 2 years ago
He states this at 8:15
Brant0024 2 years ago
Ask Mr Moller about the over heating probs on his Fantastic Engines! The only Efficient thing moller produces is Utter Bull Crap!! I think the S.E.C. should take another look at this Snake oil salesman.
iwanmacashback 2 years ago
What happened to the Autogyro? They're much simpler, cheaper, more fuel efficient and can be made to take off and land on a very short runway.
Of course, even with a working skycar, the big problem I predict is crowded airspace! If you have hundreds or thousands of these flying into and out of city limits, the risk of collisions would probably be a lot greater than I'd care to accept. Trying to control traffic into some pattern just slows it down to the point it's no faster than cars.
StvErick9 2 years ago
@StvErick9 thats what people thought about cars?
itsraininglool 4 months ago
So in another 40+ years and $200 mil, that thing will actually move forward? Amazing. Some day, maybe Moller's SkyCar will perform as good as Hiller's flying platform from 1955 (watch?v=aFS6pMvkjo8).
This guy gives underachievers a bad name. He's the envy of every Nigerian banker though.
SchnappiKrokodil 2 years ago
Oopsie!
Moller must be running low on funds again. Time to fleece some more suckers aka "investors."
This jerk has been taking people's money for 30+ years, always promising that his skycar is "just around the corner." The guy should be in prison by now.
geonerd 2 years ago
Moller has been saying the same exact thing for over 30 years. He is completely wrong about air travel, his ideas for flight are not viable. He has no comprehension of what society needs in the form of flying cars.
RadiantSynergy 2 years ago
this is a piece of crap its 550,000$
Bakugan585 2 years ago
How can you say that this is a Piece of Crap?? The Tech involved in this baby is extremely impressive. It Has 4 WANKER engines that run on Bull Crap. The only problem with running on Bull Shit is that not many gas stations are stocking it at this time? So the only way of toping up tank is to go directly to mollers mouth..... Although i have heard that his mouth n ass are as one? so at least you have two options!
iwanmacashback 2 years ago
yeah right ... not happening like in 20 years xD
s4t4n4life 2 years ago
u gotta have hope .....
kenyda20 2 years ago
I wonder what this kind of travel would do to far away places that benefit from being far away... Something like a fourth frontier.
doloppost 2 years ago
In March of 1944, Nicholas Alkemade was the tail gunner in a British Lancaster bomber on a night mission to Berlin when his plane was attacked by German fighters. When the captain ordered the crew to bail out, Alkemade looked back into the plane and discovered that his parachute was in flames. He chose to jump without a parachute rather than to stay in the burning plane. He fell 18,000 feet, landing in trees, underbrush, and drifted snow. He twisted his knee and had some cuts, otherwise fine.
bishopdante 2 years ago
How could it possibly be safe if the cars are going THAT fast?
ZeKittie 2 years ago
These "cars" are so called volantors, a new class of power-lift aircraft. A small, compact VTOL personal air vehicle, that flies automatically, with the aid of computers (advanced software, programming, etc.) , sensors and electronic/virtual "airways", using GPS and internet like technology.
People don't fly them by themselves.
But a legitimate question nevertheless.
nmangnus82 2 years ago
Maybe they have a special stopping system because it's not the speed that kills it's when you stop.
TheAmefist 2 years ago
AKA Inertia.
thecore12345 2 years ago
yes lol the car looks pretty good but it should have some more space.
TheAmefist 2 years ago
well, it's crashing into things that is dangerous, it's not a given speed that's a hazard, it's changing speed too fast (ie: smacking into something, or for that matter being at a standstill and having something fast hit you).
If you're 3 miles up, gravity will take a while to bring you down, especially with a chute.
There are stories of people falling from 25,000 feet with no chute, and they've survived if they've had their fall broken by snow or a glass roof.
bishopdante 2 years ago
planes go a fuck ton faster in most cases.
thecore12345 2 years ago
yeah we know than go fly a plane than .. and stop complaining ....
kenyda20 2 years ago
I dont really like this idea. It promotes urban sprawl and inefficiency...
drizztman101 2 years ago
u can buy 1 on firebox 4 £324,00!
jjjjooooeeee104 2 years ago
I think he should use helium tanks around the sky car to make it lighter.
268Jamal 2 years ago
Uh huh. A whole balloon full of helium can make a .01 oz. piece of rubber fly, that wouldn't really effect a one ton beast.
clamb147 2 years ago
A good suggestion, and it's safe. But helium is unfortunately quite expensive, and they'll need it already for the blimps and airships in the future, for goods and raw material transport through the sky.
nmangnus82 2 years ago
poor guy.. there are so many obstacles to moving to the flying car.. but press on ..actually i like the Israeli one better with the fan in the middle pointing down.. but factor in weather and wind and they all have problems...
rrmoh 2 years ago
That Isreali design looks like the cockpits are pretty crampt. Having the rotor built around the cockpit would probably be much easier and safer.
Chronobeanz 2 years ago
they have these now, if we are learning of this then it's been around for at least a decade. that is just the way it has gone since the begining of stolen knowledge kept from the public for the elite who cant wait for the culling to be done w/so they can break out w/this kind of technology and into mt. rushmoore to make condo which they will fly their cars right into.
mountain19 2 years ago
Did I miss something or did he not say one word about why he isn't selling them right now?
Vegasoon 2 years ago
They're on track to produce 40 of these in 2009.
danond 2 years ago
LOL. Yea...
And I've got some gorgeous beachfront property to sell you....right here in the middle of Aridzona!
geonerd 2 years ago
@danond
It's mid 2010 and not one has been built. I'm shocked! LOL
geonerd 1 year ago
Vegasoon... Moller's website tells us that his most advanced vehicle still has not transitioned from a hover to forward flight. Now, if you wanted to prove the concept and bolster investor confidence in this thing, I would guess that you would START with that, rather than day dream more body configurations and focus on sleek Euro Styling. Make an ugly prototype that PERFORMS!!!!
satweavers 2 years ago
Gotta admit. It does look good.
thecore12345 2 years ago
Yeah. Nice lawn ornament!
satweavers 2 years ago
HALF OF THE LECTURE WAS!
For a kick off, they are not ready.
They are still researching and producing an engine with a power to weight ratio that is high enough to be viable.
ect. Please watch the video.
thecore12345 2 years ago
after airways is teleportation! :D
bandit1443123 2 years ago
Anyone else notice how his prototype vehicles from the 60's 70's and 80's look a lot like UFOs? I wonder how many people saw one of these flying around and thought it was a UFO....
PsilocybinNinja 2 years ago 3
Psilo... I think the number of people who mistook the saucer Skycar for UFOs could be accurately estimated at somewhere around ZERO. This thing never flew beyond the confines of that little yard.
satweavers 2 years ago
Yah you're probably right, but it's funny to think about
PsilocybinNinja 2 years ago
yeah my dad built the engines for the moller skycar
onlyacog 2 years ago
my dad built the grounds on which ur dad built the engine and my dad gave the idea to moller and my dad also built and invented the universe :D
CurtAl3rt 2 years ago
my dad invented the question mark
YllwNinja 2 years ago
skycars wow...
...
Hey, now work on jetpacks please!
REZJT 2 years ago
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Also, the idea that everyone needs to have a flying car is ridiculous. Our economy can barely support having all these relatively simple motor vehicles. Simply put we don't have the economic power to give everyone their own flying car. This will be a toy for the rich, and that's it. You can't be egalitarian about such a machine as this. It is not a car and it's stupid to treat it as such.
Icix1 2 years ago
Yo realize...that's how automobiles used to be? Oh you don't..well then i'm gonna let you read this post and catch up. Lol
mysticessence 2 years ago
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You don't realize...its an economic impossibility for at least the next 50 years. Cars are extraordinarily cheap to produce vs. a flying car. I can't see these technologies as being cheap enough for car like numbers today in a very long time.
Icix1 2 years ago
Well neither could they but now we've got 'cheap' cars. You have to invest in it first.
mysticessence 2 years ago
He's not suggesting everyone needs a skycar.
doedicurus 2 years ago 3
that how everything starts... when the first ever cars came out... it was only the rich folks driving it... then eventually as more and more cars came out the prices started to get lower... you sound like my grand pa telling me that his horse drawn carriage is way better than my 2nd hand car... hahahaha...
truknayr23 2 years ago 2
theres no powerplant strong and light enough for a flying car ....yet
tailendcharlie 3 years ago
Yes there is, it's the rotapower engine.
mang8219 2 years ago 2
Whatever this guy's up to, its comin.
Hungerleider 3 years ago
This guy is an absolute KOOK--working on his worthless design for several decades and $40 million with absolutely NOTHING to show for it. A waste of resources--milking gullible shareholders out of their money. This car he so confidently speaks of has never been flown untethered by a crane! This guy, sadly, needs to get a life.
gs117 3 years ago
Well, he has a PERSONAL fortune of over 46 million dollars, I'd say he's doing all right out of his scam.
fizzylogik 2 years ago
Another white man breakthrough that the Asians will rush like hell to catch up with and modify to death.
AKOBADAGETHXIII 3 years ago
i think, in the future, people will just stay at home and go to work in virtual reality offices from their home computers hooked up to the internet.
IndignantSkeptic 3 years ago 2
god I hope not. Unfortunately, for a lot of people these days going to work is the only social contact they ever get.
mbdillon 2 years ago
I want my freakin' flying car!!!!
boxant 3 years ago 3
Be patient, the solution is on it's way.....
mang8219 2 years ago
he seems like a really angry frustrated individual
artilistic 3 years ago
I think I'd rather get a helicopter....
drat250 3 years ago
Helicopters are perhaps the most dangerous flight vehicles around today...
jwd2003 3 years ago 3
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this guy has diabities, you can tell by the way he always licks his lips
Punniabi 3 years ago
hahahaha!! xD why in the world did he only mention the weak Rx8??... o_0
smashsamus 3 years ago
I admire his determination, and the machine would be bad-ass, but I remember seeing this on the cover of popular mechanics as a kid in 1991, looking just as it does now.
Automation will make this more practical, but I think there is still a long way to go. Fuel efficiency is also a major issue today.
Also, if you already have to go to a volanterport, why not just take a little electric car and fly a more efficient aircraft with high aspect ratio wings?
blurglide 3 years ago 3
Woah, I just heard him say in the next 10 years. Dream on pal!
Woahhhhh, how can you possibly think that?
brian12934 3 years ago
Absolutely would be a wonderful concept. I think after such a thing is completed we would have to use imminent domain to make long stretches of some kind of barren road system that would allow for such a vehicle to drop safely without causing damage.
This would have to be on AUTOPILOT ONLY! No person should be allowed to drive this themselves.
Fuel efficiency, well we have it already. Geo-thermal energy with electric engines. Safety will come much later but we know it is possible.
brian12934 3 years ago
bad idea. boring conference. only kids would think of such a bad idea: a flying car??? wtf, so useless and disconnected with the needs of consumers. it's just a nice idea for kids (COOOOL :PPPP) in cartoons, just like transformers or star trek.
and so not fuel efficient, and sooo dangerous if it falls wtf!! lol
Animalll2003lll 3 years ago
yeah seriously, using a gasoline motor on a metal frame instead of a horse. putting gas stations on every corner. dream on person. that will only happen in comic books! wink wink
FutureScientistOfUSA 3 years ago 3
hehe yeah, for sure. but the thing is we CAN do it today but won't because we don't NEED this thing. it's a matter of demand: the market. people don't need this thing. cause 1/way too expensive, and consumes lots of energy, 2/it's really dangerous if you fall, and people will be kind of afraid. maybe one day yes, but for now staying attached to this prototype may be a bit 'unreasonable' right now--that's my impression. but one day...yep I'm pretty sure we will!
Animalll2003lll 3 years ago
we will definately be using these by the time we reach a level 1 civilization
FutureScientistOfUSA 3 years ago 4
There is a demand for it, a HUGE demand!
All those people sitting in horrible traffic jams everyday, eating op massive amounts of time, money and fuel.... and creating emissions.
Living on a rural/remote/residential, lowly crowded area wich is affordable, while be able to commute to work, in a densely crowded, very expensive area hundreds of miles away, every day. Wouldn't that be good?
mang8219 2 years ago
I heard a lot of talk but very little action, I first read about this thing over ten years ago and they don't even have a proper working prototype.
Redshift21 3 years ago
This guy has been touting this thing on Coast to Coast AM for decades and needs a crane to get it off the ground. He's always looking for investers. If he could get one model to just fly off properly he would get all the money he needs. They made a working car in England which is going to drive and fly down to Africa. But it tows a glider wing like 30 feet behind it.
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btate74 2 years ago
He doesn't mention that Wankel engines (especially the tuned up he uses) produce tremendous amounts of heat. How is he going to keep that in control?
politiek 3 years ago
this is insanity! Look at the dust it kicks up,, the noise,(think 100 ) can you say maglev, can you say public transit. The car and individual transport jhas isolated all of us. Go wankle!
edwinstar100 3 years ago
As amazing as I think this is, I doubt the average stupid American can handle operation a vehicle of such power.
SirosTV 3 years ago
This nut is way below the TED standard. Did they just invite him for the comedy value?
c6gunner 3 years ago
wow,great dream,but hello reality,give some drunk hillbilly the chance to pimp out one of these bad boy's.
chuckycheese09 3 years ago
When's the last time you saw a drunk hillbilly with $100 grand?
btate74 2 years ago 10
People's won't be flying these volantor, the AI within the vehicle and the external electronic infrastructure does.
nmangnus82 2 years ago
@btate74
I posted 10 of EM' fer ya!
LauraBeachnut 1 year ago
@btate74 last time i gave him 100grand
mower1776 8 months ago
@btate74 The Jackass movies and series.
MaxBirtle 4 months ago
It's not really energy efficient for everyone to have their own flying cars. Hell, we can barely support having all these cars. Do you really think we need these flying machines? Also people are idiots. Do we really need to give them the ability to fly around?
Icix1 3 years ago
He clearly stated these would be piloted via computer assitance, not humans.
The fact that we can barely support cars, given that we can make no more highways supports the plausibility of personal air flight.
RHESTA 3 years ago 2
I'm saying we can barely support a relatively simple machine, compared to a much more complex one. Everyone is going to now want their own flying car, something that's just not possible for at least the next 20 years. Flying buses would make more sense, economically. I think the days of the car are ending, and there will never be another mode of transportation like it.
Icix1 3 years ago
Costs will drop, as well R&D will be earned back.
Plus fuel consumption will decrease with newer, further developed models in the future after the first models entered the market.
(sure, it first starts with the happy few, a toy for the wealthiests among us, then the upper class (100k's of income each year), the upper-middle class, and eventually the normal working class, the average citizens.)
The same way it went with automobiles.
mang8219 2 years ago
Look, people are generally stupid. There are enough car accidents and car related deaths already, why would you give idiots a highly sophisticated and possibly dangerous machine...that can fly? Why not give everyone their own Cessna and pilots license?!
It's bad enough that idiots can drive around, I would hate to see what would happen if they flew around.
Icix1 2 years ago
If you paid attention you would have seen that the aircraft would be under strict control of a nav system and under no circumstance would it be piloted by any passenger. It wouldn't be too hard to accomplish at first while air traffic was low.
BobbyFromNJ 2 years ago 10
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Still doesn't take care of the economics of the issue, which is that it's barely feasible for people to have cars, economically. It's completely unrealistic that sky cars will be available like a toyota or honda. It will be available for the rich only. Given the fact the common person bitches about the price of gas there's no possible way a skycar could be maintained/fueled etc without great expense.
Icix1 2 years ago
So... This takes more energy than a car to operate... at a time where you guys want to get rid of dependency on foreign oil and maybe limit carbon emissions?
This kind of a project is not likely to happen unless the energy industry makes enormous breakthrough.
McArrowni 3 years ago
This guy has been trying to market this freaking "sky car" for the last twenty-five years and, like working fusion reactors, it's no closer to actually being able to fly than it was twenty-five years ago.
All that's changes is that he's got better computer graphics of the non-existent, non-flying sky car to raise more money to use in not actually building it.
prodprod 3 years ago
a new mean for drunk drivers to entertain the masses :)
Falloutmoon 3 years ago
this would make 'cops' so much more explosion-y
red3yz 3 years ago 2
I wouldn't want to live in a county that had noisy cars flying around overhead.
jasonlajoie 3 years ago
And it runs on AIR!
Waranoa 3 years ago
First on gasoline, diesel, and eventually hydrogen.
mang8219 2 years ago
People are bad enough drivers when on the road. Imagine how crappy they'll be in the air...
TKMSeznam12 3 years ago
your answer is at 8:07
ergoiamtoo 3 years ago
The people wont be driving the skycars, there would be a computer that makes the skycar move after you've put down your designation.
Paomnnehal 3 years ago
So far this is useful only in 007 movies.
#1 problem is power source and power supply. Flying everyone around takes lots of energy per mile, and there is no reliable power source now available to make this possible.
Lets think about electric cars and a wind energy supplied grid as a far more achievable transportation goal.
PlayT0E 3 years ago 5
Maybe in 300 years this will be somehow possible. Problems are safety, noise, cost, what fuel/energy (not fossil) to use, pollution needs to be very small ect...
To me this is not going to happen
jkand 3 years ago