Cool Tool: AirMule

[SSWarlock]

This article was published in 2013 but it showcases some real world tech that could easily be dropped into a 2300AD or TL8-9ish campaign.

http://www.gizmag.com/tactical-robotics-airmule-vtol/30196/

 

[Tom Kalbfus]

This article was published in 2013 but it showcases some real world tech that could easily be dropped into a 2300AD or TL8-9ish campaign.

http://www.gizmag.com/tactical-robotics-airmule-vtol/30196/

Don't tell anyone, but it looks like a flying car, it has the mass of a car and it can take off and land vertically, it doesn't need a runway, and unlike other drones, it can carry a person, much like the flying cars Mollier was working on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY85eExk7Zo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOOQiU5GjoM

 

[SSWarlock]

You noticed that too, huh? :wink:

 

[Tom Kalbfus]

You noticed that too, huh? :wink:

I think air traffic control issues have prevented so far, flying cars from breaking out into the mass market place. Mollier has been flying his prototypes for years!

 

[heron61]

You noticed that too, huh? :wink:

I think air traffic control issues have prevented so far, flying cars from breaking out into the mass market place. Mollier has been flying his prototypes for years!

Also, obvious safety issues. W/o total automated control, I know that I'm none to eager to have drunk people, people talking on cellphones, or even drunk people talking on cellphones flying over major urban areas. However, fully automated cars will be practical in less than a decade and in some ways a fully automated flying car is easier to design, since it doesn't need to deal with heavy traffic or pedestrians.

 

[AndrewW]

However, fully automated cars will be practical in less than a decade and in some ways a fully automated flying car is easier to design, since it doesn't need to deal with heavy traffic or pedestrians.

What about those flying around with jetpacks?

 

[Rick]

However, fully automated cars will be practical in less than a decade and in some ways a fully automated flying car is easier to design, since it doesn't need to deal with heavy traffic or pedestrians.

What about those flying around with jetpacks?

Flying pedestrians, 'nuff said. 8)

 

[SSWarlock]

Jetpacks don't have anywhere near the fuel capacity and miniaturization needed to become a mass transit option. Still, it would be cool.

 

[AndrewW]

Jetpacks don't have anywhere near the fuel capacity and miniaturization needed to become a mass transit option. Still, it would be cool.

Nope, not yet anyways. But still a possibility of something automated flying cars might need to watch out for.

 

[Tom Kalbfus]

You noticed that too, huh? :wink:

I think air traffic control issues have prevented so far, flying cars from breaking out into the mass market place. Mollier has been flying his prototypes for years!

Also, obvious safety issues. W/o total automated control, I know that I'm none to eager to have drunk people, people talking on cellphones, or even drunk people talking on cellphones flying over major urban areas. However, fully automated cars will be practical in less than a decade and in some ways a fully automated flying car is easier to design, since it doesn't need to deal with heavy traffic or pedestrians.

That is what a drone is. The drones of today are miniature versions of the flying cars of tomorrow. Probably flying taxi cabs is what they will be. By the time we have the the ground cars will be automated too, most likely, though probably not all of them. People after ll don't like to give up their freedom.