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Australia’s first flying car now ‘on sale’ (www.carexpert.com.au)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] wjrii 24 points 1 month ago

Incoming Chinese carmaker Xpeng

Australian firm Pegasus Aerospace Corp received airworthiness certification from CASA for its driveable Pegasus E flying police car last year

you would need a pilot’s licence – not simply a car licence – to be able to eventually fly the X2 in Australia.

likely to be bungled in red tape for some time before it could take to the skies

We can take orders.... you can secure one with a fully refundable $100 deposit.

So I guess a more accurate headline would be this:

"Australia's" "first" "flying car" "now" "on sale."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don't see any wheels, I bet it's controlled by a yoke or stick, it has 4 copters.

This is a drone, not a car

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

You can only call it a drone if it's from the Droné region of France.

This is just a sparkling quadcopter.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

A drone is an unmanned vehicle, e.g. SpaceX drone boats serving as mobile landing pads, Ukrainian drone boats carrying explosives, drone research submarines, ground drones for mine defusal, etc.

This is definitely not a drone. It's a quadcopter.

[–] ikidd 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

“They could buy five X2s for the price it would take to [replace the engine] in their regular helicopter.”

Australian farmers aren't buying million dollar helicopters to herd cattle. I don't know what the author is smoking.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Some of the ranches are big enough they do have helicopters. It's not impossible.

[–] ikidd 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I know they have helicopters, I've been in a couple. They're pretty janky and cheap. Maybe there's farmers with million-dollar helicopters, but I haven't heard of one.

Edit: they're shitboxes like this: https://www.pbs.org/video/helicopter-cowboys-wrangle-cattle-australia-tahs67/