Flying cars crash into each other at air show in China
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Footage shared on social media shows burning wreckage on the ground after the mid-air collision.
  • ratten@lemmings.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 hours ago

    Couldn’t people say the same shit when regular cars were new and there was an accident?

    “That’s why you’ll never see thousands of them going down a highway at 80 miles an hour.” -1920s idiot who needs to get their crystal ball checked.

    • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 hours ago

      Sure, a person might have said that. They’d have been right about the danger but wrong about our risk tolerance. It’s hard enough to keep people from becoming water balloons in a simple collision on the ground (though things have definitely improved in that regard over the past century). It’s also a much bigger problem to run out of fuel or have an engine failure in midair than on the ground in the vast majority of situations.

      • FauxLiving@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        That’s why aircraft regulations require safety systems, redundancy.

        There are safety systems, like parachutes, which can save ultralight aircraft even on total power loss.