1984 Tritan A2 Domino's Pizza Delivery Car

Radwood SoCal 2021

What could have been the future of pizza delivery

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@chemoelectric @dtgeek @mekkaokereke I mean, people have built "flying cars" — the official name for them is roadable aircraft. The Taylor Aerocar is the best known example: https://youtu.be/h38UeDb7xw8

And there's a host of issues. As a car, the design has to be compromised to support flying. As an aircraft, the design is limited by the fact it needs to be taken on the road.

There's a lot of extra engineering that's needed to get it to convert, such as folding or detaching the wings, that you don't need in a regular car or plane.

With that extra engineering, the price point has to be competitive with the cost of a decent plane plus a decent car.

For obvious reasons, achieving aerodynamic lift would be easier with a smaller car than a big SUV or pickup truck.

You can't just take off from any side street or freeway — you're still driving the thing to a runway. So no good for flying over peak hour traffic.

Air safety rules are a magnitude more strict than road rules, and with good reason.

It needs to be air-worthy as well as roadworthy.

You need a pilot's licence to fly it.

You're effectively parking a light aircraft in the car park every time you drive it down to the local supermarket.

And because it's a light aircraft, so you can't use it for long-haul flights.

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