• Question: What will happen to our transport in 10 years - will we have flying cars

    Asked by anon-208645 to Tori, Titus, Stuart, Hannah, Gill, Alessandro on 7 Mar 2019. This question was also asked by anon-208899.
    • Photo: Hannah Dalgleish

      Hannah Dalgleish answered on 7 Mar 2019:

      Unlikely, but I hope they will all be electric! Or maybe we’ll have gotten rid of cars altogether and everyone will be cycling instead. 🚲

    • Photo: Stuart Higgins

      Stuart Higgins answered on 8 Mar 2019:

      Simple flying cars already exist, but they’re basically just small planes with folding wings.
      The problem is they’re expensive, often need a runway to take-off and land, and everyone who flies them needs a pilots license. There’s a lot of research into drone technology at the moment, which might help flying cars take off and land vertically (without a runway). But one of the biggest challenges is making lightweight batteries. Heavier aircraft need bigger batteries, but that makes them heavier, so they need bigger batteries…
      I imagine the biggest change in 10 years time will the start of simple kinds of self-driving car, where the driver needs to do less and less and the car slowly does more for you.

      Flying car manufacturer website: https://terrafugia.com/transition/

    • Photo: Gill Harrison

      Gill Harrison answered on 12 Mar 2019:

      I think the driverless cars will be safer by then. The challenge will be the change over between human driven cars and driverless…once it’s all driverless it is more likely to be safer.
      Hopefully it will be ready in time for me to retire and be chauffeur driven by a robot!!

      I did hear that drones might be used for delivering Amazon parcels. Not sure if want to be driven by an Amazon delivery drone, but who knows what’s next in the scientific inventions?

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