Terrafugia CEO Responds To "Flying Car" Criticism

waderoush writes "The majority of the comments on last week's Slashdot post It's Not a Flying Car — It's A Drivable Airplane were critical, even dismissive, of Terrafugia's work to build a two-passenger airplane with folding wings that's also certified for highway driving. We boiled down these criticisms to the dozen most commonly expressed points, and today we've published responses from Terrafugia CEO Carl Dietrich. While hybrid airplane-automobiles are an old (some would say laughable) idea, Dietrich argues that current materials and avionics technologies finally make the concept feasible."

Pfft.

[Anonymous Coward]

If I wanted a driveable airplane I would duct tape a license plate to my Cessna.

Welcome.

[ahoehn]

From the Article:

Judging from the comments last week, many commenters hadn't fully absorbed the factual points in the article (to put it politely).

 
Welcome to Slashdot.

unimaginable!

[EllynGeek]

It's unthinkable that a story posted on /. should ever receive anything but careful, reasoned analysis. This story implies that most /. commenters are knee-jerk hypercritical dorks who don't read anything or like anything. Some people.

Re:unimaginable!

[argent]

Inconceivable!

Re:Just another energy-wasting toy for the rich

[Gat0r30y]

Building crap just because selfish rich people are wasteful enough to make you wealthy providing them with useless toys is nothing to be proud of.

- But it is the American way!

Re:Just another energy-wasting toy for the rich

[Anonymous Coward]

Got cites?

Didn't think so.

Re:Inconceivable!

[WalksOnDirt]

Unpossible!

Re:frost piss

[pimpimpim]

The moment that flying cars become available, I will start a business selling reinforced roofs.

Re:whatever, good questions

[dgatwood]

I wonder (or wander offtopic slightly), has Africa any invasive species?

Besides people? I can't count how many invasions there have been in Africa (and everywhere else, for that matter) over the past few centuries. :-D

Re:unimaginable!

[antic]

It's unthinkable that a story posted on /. should ever receive anything but careful, reasoned analysis. This story implies that most /. commenters are knee-jerk hypercritical dorks who don't read anything or like anything. Some people.

I read the start of your comment and was nodding my head - yes, this should be that sort of place, full of educational and interesting comments, where obvious (especially meta) jokes from people who don't read the article are nowhere to be seen. Then I read the end of your comment and I was still nodding, but just making contact with the desk each time...

Re:unimaginable!

[Spatial]

That movie sucked. No way I'm restoring it.

Re:Well...

[flyingsquid]

Car, boat, sub, aircraft. Any combination of those doesn't really work.

Just wait until my carsubboatplane hits the market. Then your face will be red.

Re:frost piss

[YrWrstNtmr]

Moller claims to get about 18 mpg on ethanol with his M400 volantor

Moller also claims to have a functional 'flying car'.