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

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days 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] 6 points 3 days 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 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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/

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days 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 3 days 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 2 days 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.