Flying cars just sound cool and something out of a science fiction movie. Flying cars are called helicopters, in reality. Neil has an interesting and a wise perspective on things. That’s why I admire him greatly.
Clint Eastwood has a pilot's license to fly a helicopter The traffic was that bad Los Angeles in the 1970s that's how he got from his house on the hills to Paramount studios
flying cars are not science fiction in fact they showed one that already exists, the truth is not at all wise in fact there he showed how little he knows about physics by trying to evade the subject
@@diegoalejandro8362 You just want something looking like a car that flies well you have helicopter which flies it basically doesn't look like a car that's it. Neil definitely is correct i agree upon him completely.
@@johnpeter2609 no, a helicopter is not made to function like a car, it is super noisy, it is made for military purposes, to transport very large loads, not at all similar to a private car
You know what I love about this guy? He’s perfectly aware of his own personality and how it affects others but his so confident about what he’s saying he doesn’t feel the need to subscribe to normal social etiquette. He realizes that while everyone is entitled to their own opinion, they aren’t all created equal.
@@iwantsleep7264 figured that was self apparent. joe is your "every guy". people like him because he's about as average as average gets. i may not agree with everything he says, but neil has dedicated his life to the pursuit of knowledge regarding a finite subject. his opinion on things related to it will inevitably be superior to others
Going through the visualisation of dimensions in terms of what you would see is interesting... i’ve done some potent drugs in my life, and i still cant even guess what the 4th dimension would be like.
It's more like Neil: hey Elon I'm giving some publicity for your tunnel products Joe: it's sounds like someone is selling PR in my podcast Elon: this is awesome, my products are not profitable, but enough speculations will make my stocks go up Idiots: yeah smoking weed, play video games, masterbate, and buy Bitcoin is smart move
@@jayjawad3598 Smoking weed, playing video games, and masturbating doesn't make you an idiot. (You spelled masturbating wrong but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and just say it was a typo) The only thing that really makes you an idiot is buying Bitcoin in my opinion.
This is only one of two times that someone has said something that made me remember something that seems surreal that I had forgotten about; that is, planes being so loud that you couldn't have a conversation when one flow over. I remember the teacher would have to stop talking when a plane flew over. I forgot all about that. The only other time was when a little kid said to me, "I forgot how to fly in my dreams when I turned 4" I don't remember what we were talking about at that time.
emarskineel how is he phony lol. His an astrophysicist with many doctorates and has massive credibility in the science community. Your just one of those jealous types lol
I've been in 4 car accidents in my life (none of them serious). Imagine an accident in the sky. How many people survive plane and helicopter crashes? Exactly.
How many people die of plane crashes compared to car crashes each year? Exactly, but we live with it. If instead of an attachment to your car we made self flying drones, in the end the deaths may be far lower than cars. Also, each seat fitted with a parachute may be as effective as a seat belt or airbag. Not 100 percent but better than nothing.
@@JohnR436 Wrapped around in a spiral on a 2-D surface using the electro-magnetic force of a 3-D universe that is entangled with the 4th dimension on a quantum scale.
Fr man wtf lol imagine people in the 15 hundres probly thought me and you litterally speaking you and i (dont know your name) were guna be looking like the jetsons but in reality how much has really changed? What the craziest thing right now? An iphone wow a lil device with everything in it somthing that was eventually guna be made
@@Bass1ne the crazy thing that happened is called "internet" the fact that I'm typing this and you can read it instantly as I posted it is waay useful than freaking flying cars, side not we are probably on two different continents, this would have blow their minds back in the 60's!
The difference between tunnels/bridges and flying cars is huge. The great part of flying cars would be the lack of required infrastructure. With a tunnel sure I can get around the person above me but only where there are tunnel entrances. With a flying car to get around you I could go up down left right and a combination of any of those 4.
Use your brain. Firsty, everyone who needs to drive a flying car would need to have crazy qualifications, look how hard flying a plane is. If a car fails, it stops. If a flying car fails, it crashes and you die, and it might even crash into a building. And if it falls, not only will you die, the people around the crash will die to, because it will just explode. You'd have to train people to rear coordinates, deal with turbulence, most people would just give up trying to fly it. "You can fly up, left, right." That would take an awful lot of fuel, only rich people would be able to have it. It will also make way too much noise, just as Tyson says drones are so loud you can't have conversations. Imagine cars flying everywhere, the noise pollution would be off the charts. Also, you would definitely need infrastructure, otherwise cars would be crashing left and right. Please tell me how you can have millions of cars flying the air with no infastructure. How do you even figure out routes in the air, it's so hard that each driver would need to have a background in engineering. You won't even be able to use it whenever the weather goes berserk
@vol94 I know this was a year ago. But some of what you are saying that is essentially dumb, is possible. Noise? Electric propulsion with fan blade design could get noise to acceptable levels. Be able to operate it? Not a problem. Flying really isn't that hard, but these flying vehicles will be highly automated. A monkey will be able to operate it. Commercial planes essentially can be practically flow by a novice now. Crashing into things and safety? It would be regulated. Such vehicle would have to have proven safety measures in case of failures or sufficient backups. Really no different than air planes but one would not need and airport or a pilots license. Probably have its own category of licensing less strict as pilots licenses. I can see driving it to a neighborhood launch point and taking off. How to navigate? Again most of that will be automated into onboard navigation. There likely be a government system to establish air routes and to maintain clearance to others. Will it be expensive? Probably. We probably should stop calling them flying cars. They will be hybrid air vehicles (HAV). The ground portion would not be far distance. It's going to be like an EV but with ability to to to hover and fly. Advantage, higher travel speed and more flexibility in path and likely more direct path.
Your theory works if you’re the only one flying a car. Otherwise you can’t go up and down as you wish since there are other cars that would be occupying that lane.
@@FetsumBerhaneDire I guess it would depend on the location. La or NYC traffic would probably be to congested to simply go around. In 99% of the world you wouldn't even have to worry if people spread out over 1000 ft.
Lol you’re not thinking about it how we are, a worm hole is 3 dimensional and is a tunnel, it’s 3D dimensional because it’s not ideal it’s underground and practically a new angle from the other roads
A bridge over a road is three-dimensional travel because you traveled up and over the two-dimensional plane via a third direction. A 45-degree slope is still up. To look at it from the standpoint of your still simply going forward, would be to then say all travel is on dimensional because you can only go in one direction at a time. Which is false.
@@Reggie2000 Uh, no. As I stated above, a manifold can pass through a 3rd dimension despite only being a 2D "object" (specifically, a surface). By contrast, Joe is interpreting 3D to mean the ability to move continually across a third dimension (rather than along a region of a surface in the tunnel). In simple words: Joe - I want 3D travel which I define as the ability to move across infinitely many points along a Z-axes as with a VTOL hover craft. Neil - Well actually, we have a more narrowly defined version of 3D travel in the form of bridges and tunnels. Joe / my counter - I don't believe that counts as mapping the shadow of the image (which reduces the image to 2D) has the same surface area as the manifold / object did in 3D. By contrast, the shadow of the planes our VTOL craft could travel along are infinite (though functionally not, as the VTOL hovercraft has finite height restrictions and finite dimensions). Therefore, Flying Cars!
@jonjo2598 I don't know why you're telling me I'm wrong. I'm not. I didn't say you were wrong either. My post isn't defined or constrained by their conversation. I was simply commenting that traveling over a bridge, is in fact 3D travel. On multiple levels, actually. In fact, because we knowingly exist in a 3D environment, all travel is 3D based when you really think about it.
I guess it depends on what you call a "car". People have already scaled up drone parts and put a seat on it, and can fly around on them. Only wouldn't work in cities.
@@HuyNgo-yi4nd nothing like that. He is just trying to make people see that the concepts of physics (4th dimensions and stuff like that) are not farfetched and have real-world practical applications...
I think it's all that Joe can do not to lunch across the table and choke this guy. Just kidding that's the Joe of 20 years ago today's Joe is a lot cooler than that.
Another thing iv learned is that even if there was flying cars it wouldnt be a “free for all” like joe said, right now we have airplanes and helicopters and even they have to follow “lanes” in the sky when your flying a plane depending on were your going and what size your plane is there is certain hights and certain lanes you have to stick to
I always thought a flying infrastructure would be possible. You could use the current roads, make the lampposts 2 or 3 times higher for a flying car to know where the road is. You could make a bridge that crosses the road to connect 2 lamp posts on a certain height for people to know how high they have to fly.
Interesting take, what is your personal contact I’m a fellow Engineer & a retail level Investor, your explanation stood out to me and would like to talk in depth
@@Modestlylivinkhi - After a few mid-air collisions with shrapnel and body parts raining down on the unsuspecting citizenry, flying cars would stop real quick.
@@Bejaardenbus This is exactly why I hate him. He interrupts at the most important points, to add nothing useful. It's like talking to a child with ADD.
That last part, that's where you're mistaken. It's needed because Joe "Whoaaaaaa airplanes make noise" Rogan is high as fuck. This is, ironically, the highest he's ever been on the podcast.
I was an assistant to a millionaire who had invested in a flying car called the icon. In the end he sold it to a Chinese person because the head of the company committed suicide in the flying car and that did not look good for the company.
A somewhat easy-to-imagine fourth dimension is time. Continuing with the multitiered desk organizer, you can think of one organizer on Monday, a second organizer on Tuesday and so on. Four dimenions, easy-peasy.
There won't be a flying cars!!! What is a car any way, it is something that you drive... so if one need to drive on the ground then you have a vehicle, you want to drive in the air, well afford a helicopter, or anything that can fly...
This is how you're supposed to teach/learn. Don't just answer the question, but target the root of that question to fully break down and analyze what you're asking. Only then can you become fully aware of the question's entirety.
Agreed, but some people don't even a fraction of the mental capacity or attention span that it takes to withstand what it means to truly means to ponder and question these questions
My grade six science project was a magnetic floating car. But it required electromagnets one the car and the road to be laid out with magnets with different strength in oncoming traffic thus eliminating head on collisions. I’m aware it’s flawed; I was 11 haha
The sound created from air hitting a man made object traveling at highway speed is the most underrated sound ever. With no muffler my 74 charger engine sounds like a purr over the wind at 120mph, its crazy how loud air is
Joe listing all the downsides of subway transportation and never mentioning that a base annual pass isn't going to cost 100k or more right off the bat.
Niel: “We already have flying cars. They’re called helicopters...” Joe: “Well, helicopters were originally invented for that...” Niel: “They’re called HELICOPTERS”
But yeah, I would bank for pods, in different sizes as a service. If you commute, you don't need a damn truck, saves space on the roads and also if you need something for travels or other stuff, you can just switch for the time. And I know, but I don't seem it necessary to own a car at that point if it pulls upp outside your house to pick you up when you need it
@@austinhopkins4191 flying car is not a plane. Plane and cars have to rely on different mechanics to fly. Otherwise I don't see difference why should even it called a car. When planes fail they can still fly and land because they have wings and they also have high altitude and speed. Planes don't maneuver much. They fly in straight lines. Also flying cars are would be essential for large cities, for fast traveling in crowded places....Nobody in city rush time has time for gaining kilometers of altitudes before going straight towards to destination. It should be something "mass produce'able" and something that people can easily fit it to their garage.
Neil speaks on extremely simple things and tries to make it sound so profound. Joe: Why aren’t Koala’s bears? Neil: They’re Marsupials. Not bears. Appreciate marsupials for what they are. They carry their young in a pouch. It’s such an amazing aspect of nature, of course they’re not bears. Joe: Because they don’t meet the Koalafications
The reason there are no flying cars is that the design requirements for the two vehicles are diametrically different. Cars need to be strong enough to handle road surfaces such as pot holes and ruts. Airplanes need to be light and have bodies that can withstand aerodynamic loads. All the "flying car' designs that have made it to prototype status were mediocre cars and lousy airplanes.
Talk about useless.. I once pondered on the idea of starting a caption service for RU-vid or RU-vidrs channels like podcasts and such. Well I was disappointed when I learned that they already have that option, but was even more disappointed when I seen just how much of a piece of shit it is
As it is, the issue with flying cars is not that they’re part of a dimension of travel we already have. Cars as we know them are too HEAVY. Attach any system that has enough thrust to lift a car and you’ll know there’s no way in hell it can be made quiet. No, what you want with a flying car is more of a flying moped. Something that carries at least half of its own weight in payload, including you. A vehicle with an empty weight no greater than 112kg, which would be classified as an ultralight. We have that already, but nobody tried making a fusion of a bicyclemoped weight motor vehicle with a design similar to modern rotor vehicles. And a lot of Personal Aerial Vehicles are going in that direction right now. What a ‘flying car’ should be is much lighter than any car ever made, more of taking a 3 wheeled enclosed bicycle like vehicle known as the velomobile, then adding wings and electrically powered rotors to that type of design.
A flying car can be easily made, but would you trust people to maintain those cars so they don't fall over people's heads? They can't even maintain their normal cars.
14:45 Well neil, that could be a good idea for public transport, but, only with buses because i believe using a car for one person to 4 its to little in comparison on how much a bus can move in terms of fuel used per traveller.
But as soon as flying cars became popular, they would be restricted to certain airspace, and there would be traffic too. Unless its something most people can't get their hands on, eventually it will be congested.
They'd probably require some sort of system where flying cars would detect others in the vicinity, share their flight path with each other and make a decision that alters one or both cars courses to avoid collision. Then if you're in manual mode the car's computer would probably just take over control if you were getting too close to someone and there was a chance of a collision.
@@KJ110813 yeah but the problem is congestion. Even if its super safe and reliable and affordable, everyone wants a piece of it, causing a lot of traffic and not much of a solution to avoiding traffic
@@yourfavoriteclaymationpeng2926 One huge thing that would contribute to less congestion would be the fact that there would be overall a very significant decreases in the distances traveled by commuters, due to the ability of people to take much more direct routes to their destinations than is possible with a road system. Roads and freeways are designed based on the distribution of the population, the frequency with which they travel to various places, and the projected trends of that activity in the near future. With flying cars, congestion could be dealt with much easier as trends changed with little need for changes in infrastructure.
If it ever turned into a thing, I don't think they will let them be designed fly too high from the ground. And probably wouldn't be allowed to fly more than a few feet in major cities if at all.
As long as they were at an altitude lower than commercial air traffic, I don't see why it would be a problem to fly at altitudes significantly above the ground and above buildings. The only problem that could arise would be if a flying car were to malfunction and could no longer maintain flight. That could be solved (or the damage at least minimized) by designing parachutes durable and large enough to significantly slow the vehicle before it makes impact with the ground or buildings.
"Consider that if you were in a self driving car and it wants to change lanes, it communicates that to the other cars." We've been doing that since 1909, they're called indicators.
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The first solution is to have self driving cars. Imagine cars that communicate with each other and the traffic signals. For example, many of us experienced cars while stopped at a stop light. Car at the front, light turns green, goes. 2nd car delays. Then goes, and so on. Then you see large gaps in cars moving creating delays. A self driving car wouldn’t do that. They’d all move at precisely the same time. That alone reduces traffic congestion.
I'm curious if it would be possible to build a flying car that interacts with the magnetic field of the planet and that's how it flies not necessarily doing what Neil is saying with a helicopter
Thumb rule everyone knows: if you invite Neil , you know he is like a science jukebox, a very interesting jukebox, but you put a cent down, you are along for the ride 😊
It would be chaos. there'd be no designated roads. Drunk drivers and dummies would turn into missiles. The infrastructure to monitor and regulate the traffic would be immense. And it'd be noisy.
A flying car is essentially what a helicopter is no matter which way you look at it. That is the point Neil is making, and he is saying that the tunnel and bridge system allows for that 3rd dimensional travel that you can obtain WITHOUT the need of something that can fly. So unless you want to pilot a "flying car", stick to the road or increase your IQ so you can become a pilot and not make dumb comments like this lol
@@Kataklysm1234 he didn't advocate personal helicoptors, which would have made actual sense to the conversation. You don't have to restate his position about tunnels and bridges, trying to look smart by showing how you got it and pretending it makes him look smart. It's one of the stupidest things he's ever said and you look dumb for defending it, while attempting to look smart because you "got the 3 dimensional part!" Omg, the more I attempt to explain how stupid you AND him sound, the more I am thinking we need to do away with public schools like yesterday.
Just remember the movie The Fifth Element, they had flying cars and still have traffic jams. If you have flying cars at the beginning traffic jams wouldn’t exist, but when everyone has one at one point in the future, that will create traffic jams again
Checkout the rim driven flying car concept. Rim-driven wheels and inverted propellers. Should be much quieter than the classical propeller style, plus, adding prop edge serration would further quiet them. That should get a bump, imo, for it's beautiful simplicity.
Great Video! Neil if you would have been one of my teachers in high school I would have gone in a totally different direction in life! You are an amazing man Mr. Tyson!
@@Kyoto_150 Far from it. I own 2 business. I've done blue collar labor for 30 years. Thru school preaching hard work and hard labor is how u make a living. Neil would have opened my mind to endless directions of wonderful opportunities. 🙂
He's a self absorbed narcissistic know it all full of hubris that doesn't know it all. The stupidest thing he said was about the planes landing gear making all that noise on landing. It's the air brakes and flaps.
paramotors, jetpacks, helicopters, hot air balloons, airplanes, etc...they all are effective at travelling because they don't have to navigate around obstacles at ground level like cars do. You can save much more time if you fly over an obstacle instead of going around it neil is way off on this topic
@@GrowingDownUnder in a vacuum yes, but it's an absolute logistical HELL on earth if everyone was doing it. Do you realize how many people would fucking die every single day? We can't drive cars as it is.
He is not. He just knows a lot based on science. That bald guy keeps on saying why not have flying cars without the knowledge of science that having a flying car as everyday transportation is not efficient. Why? case that bald guy knows nothing and an idiot, like Neil said, a guy infused with steroids wanting to fly around like an idiot.
If you had automated cars you wouldn't need lanes, just one giant lane on the 405 with vehicles weaving in and out going fast since they'd all be communicating with each other.
