Tesla-Powered Flying Car Doesn't Require A License | Cars Insider

The Jetson One is a flying vehicle designed for a single passenger. It has a maximum speed of 63 mph, and its Tesla battery cells give it a flight time of 20 minutes. However, because it's classified by the Federal Aviation Administration as an ultralight aircraft, it requires no license to operate. We learned from Jetson company co-founder Tomasz Patan how difficult the vehicle is to operate for first-time users, its safety, and what his company has planned for the future.

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[roxstix]

I am sure there will be a certain license for this if it ever takes off for the public.

[iiiiii]

“Making cities better place to live”. Imagine those things flying near your window every 5 minutes.

[EnglishCad]

Added bonus it doubles as a coffin. As it's quicker just to bury you in it. Than to try to get your mangled body out of the wreckage. This takes range anxiety to a whole other level.

[alvoardo]

I am just not sure about their dream stated in the last part. We are already stupid enough driving cars, and with this in cities, we're gonna bring crashes and traffic problems to 3d, which is way worse hehe

[joshuapatrick]

Say in NYC alone 1, 000 of these were purchased and flying around in daily commutes, how long before the first mid air collision? How long before the first innocent pedestrian gets an amputation from those blades? How long before the fire department/hazmat is called to stop a fire caused by these ramming into an apartment block? There are cool ideas, but to ever suggest this is a legitimate option for everyday mass transit is asinine

[phlipfreq]

Yo its gunna be crazy when they start racing these.

[markrobertdevison]

I'm waiting for the next generation. I want longer flight time but what an awesome vehicle.

[DavidYoung]

Why don't they add a small 2 foot wing each side? That'll produce some lift and massively increase the range. As someone into aviation, quadcopters are very power inefficient but very maneuverable.

[niubilities]

Some people here don't seem to understand that 20 minutes flying time is not too bad for a first generation eVTOL of that size. Assuming takeoff and landing takes a minute each and for miscellaneous redundancies add another minute, this still gives you a maximum range of around 18 miles @ 60 mph. That's almost 30 km in a straight line. The radius of most cities (urban) aren't even that large.

Edit: If that comes with supercharging or instant battery swap features, it's game on.

[mycake]

That is some next level Osha violation right there. instead of your car flying, it's your head that's flying lol.

[jasonstearns]

it’s going to hurt when that thing breaks down, though.

[michaelclarke]

Notice how... none of these promotional car flying videos have any realistic sounds of what they really sound like while flying overhead, happy upbeat music always accompanying these Videos... in reality they probably sound like very loud angry hornets, can you imagine thousands of them flying overhead.

[JustTheFactsYall]

People can’t even remember to do daily maintenance or fill up for gas 😂

[navyreviewer]

Why? Why have you >not< put the rotors up high? Putting them low makes no sense.

[whaleman]

Not sure where the car part comes in... 🤔

[joshuapatrick]

Yeah if this was adopted by even .1 percent of a city the fallout would be huge, so many dying from mid air and air to ground collisions…no air traffic control means they’d just be plowing into each other constantly. This is cool, but in practice would never work.

[taridean]

I'm curious to know what the emergency procedure is in the event of all the motors shutting down and you're only 1500ft off the ground. That is not a lot of altitude to recover in, let alone glide the thing with no fixed wings to generate any lift once the motors quit.

[MrMe]

But what if you took the wheels off the model S plaid and put those props in their place 🤔

[godblesschild]

Can't wait to use that for my next bank robbery let's start the training 🤣🤣🤣🥰

[eastindiaV]

I just came up with some pretty crude computations for possibly converting a regular car into an aircraft, although the engine would have to be modified... and the wings are the entire computation... and they need to be shaped like a cats claw pointing down (fibonacci spiral)... but my computations I think work, so,
the wings that you have to stick on to the thing would be 2/3 as long as the fuselage from nose to tail.... twice as wide as the fuselage, per wing.... and half as tall as the fuselage, from top to bottom horizontally.... tapering into a point at the tip of the wing in a fibonacci spiral.... it should fly! especially with the rocket motor... a regular piston driven internal combustion engine would either have to be modified into a motor jet or a piston driven propeller, in addition to this it needs to have a positive lift to weight ratio....so obviously a car that you'd buy it an auto dealership or just off the factory floor or wherever, you'd have to gut the whole thing take a lot of weight out of it and then convert some of that weight into the wings (like the fuel tanks can be moved there, and battery) or just put new lightweight Wings on the outside of it.... and then, like I said, the motor would need to be updated... but again as long as it has a positive lift to weight ratio and also it Bears these Wing dimensions in a Fibonacci spiral like the shape of a cat's claw or a raindrop or teardrop then it should fly.

The tail could be a 1/2 scale or maybe 1/3 scale copy of the wings, sandwiched together, on a spoiler mount.


Maybe one day, you can trade in your car, for a plane, for a small price, compared to buying a plane full price... it would still look kinda like the car also, and might even have the same motor still, although modified.

So a 7 foot wide fuselage would have like a 35 foot wing span, 10 feet long means wings 6 feet long from nose to tail, and 5 feet tall fuselage means 2.5 foot wide wings, AT THE BASE, like I said, a straight leading edge, and the rear end tapers in a fibonacci spiral, and the side profile ALSO tapers in a fibonacci spiral, from its thick point at the front and where it connects to the plane, to its thin point at the rear end and outer edge/tips of the wings.

Each wing could also be a box, with just a side profile of the cat claw, pointing down.... with the thick part at the leading wing edge, less efficient tho. More angles = more directed lift (air pressure)

So if the thrust to weight ratio is positive, it should go up, but the aerodynamics create a pocket, which acts like train tracks, leading in the direction of the sky, or a ramp, or roller coaster, always facing up, proportional to the amount of thrust and airspeed.


I think it's important to note that a lot of auto mechanics probably started out by being air craft engineers in the military, which was common at the time, after the war, these aviators then went on to become auto mechanics, which is why cars are built like planes, and not vice versa.