Comment Re:Gatling guns? (Score 0) 157
"A failing road car stops on the road. Not always ideal, but generally a controllable event"
Far from ideal, quite often fatal. A failing car on a crowded interstate can result in an accident involving many vehicles with lots of casualties, and this happens shockingly often.
"A failing flying car drops out of the sky."
Unlikely. You have redundant systems, if your main control system fails the backup kicks in, you have 8 engines and still have limited flight abilities even if over half of them fail simultaneously, and even if absolutely everything else fails there is a parachute big enough to bring the entire car down relatively gently.
"Therefore it has to be orders of magnitude more reliable than your typical car."
Yes, that part is correct.
Far from ideal, quite often fatal. A failing car on a crowded interstate can result in an accident involving many vehicles with lots of casualties, and this happens shockingly often.
"A failing flying car drops out of the sky."
Unlikely. You have redundant systems, if your main control system fails the backup kicks in, you have 8 engines and still have limited flight abilities even if over half of them fail simultaneously, and even if absolutely everything else fails there is a parachute big enough to bring the entire car down relatively gently.
"Therefore it has to be orders of magnitude more reliable than your typical car."
Yes, that part is correct.
