Still no flying cars, but now there's a flying cart to shop with

[PsiPhiGrrrl]

@sqlrob

I can’t figure out the target audience for this.

@sqlrob

they don’t even do the maintenance on wheeled ones now,

You answered your own question. If this thing corners well at 5mph and stops when I want it to, I might be tempted. There’s always that one wheel preventing me from reaching top speed…

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[Alvin_Goodman]

Unless you come up with an anti-gravity tech that isn’t dangerous with loud spinning propellers then what is the purpose even?

This is one of those ideas someone gets in the middle of the night and they become obsessed to the point of self-harm, refusing to listen to anyone who suggests this is unnecessary and pointless. In the end they die sitting on a folding lawn chair strapped to a giant firework OR clenching their PS2 controller as the sub implodes.

[MonkeyT12]

If a place’s shopping carts require ear protection, I won’t ever shop there.

[thomdunn]

@anothernewbbaccount

(And @thomdunn - typo “Palletrone” not “Pallentrone”.)

It would’ve been a better name if it were a Palindrone Palletdrone.

[euansmith]

Aerodrome →
→ Palindrome <—

[Surprise_Puma]

Finally, I am one step closer to wafting nimbly through the air with the grace and dignity of a Harkonnen!

[awfulhorrid]

@thomdunn

this is The Pallentrone

Which presumably works just as well if it’s going backwards as if it’s going forwards.

@thomdunn

Okay, so it’s not quite as exciting as the flying car you’ve been waiting for since childhood.

I’ve been in traffic more than once, so I absolutely hate the idea of flying cars. Humans can barely be bothered to properly control or maintain their 2-ton death machines on a 2D surface and you want to allow them off the play mat? (Ask again after fully autonomous driving has been perfected; in other words no time this century.)

[Hover_Board]

@awfulhorrid

I’ve been in traffic more than once, so I absolutely hate the idea of flying cars.

Agreed and further: there will never be any such thing as a “flying car”. Regardless of what a vehicle does on the ground, the moment it enters into controlled flight, it becomes an aircraft. Full stop.

And there are a completely different set of established rules for aircraft.

[anon65652885]

@dwall0

Having the basket automatically return to the store rather than be strewn about the parking lot/neighborhood is another potential benefit.

Until competing store chains start ramming the homeward bound rival stores’ baskets out of the air.

[FGD135]

@thomdunn

the flying car you’ve been waiting for since childhood

Dude, I’m still waiting for my friggin’ Spandex jacket.

[Doctor_Faustus]

@dwall0

Having the basket automatically return to the store rather than be strewn about the parking lot/neighborhood is another potential benefit.

That problem has been solved decades ago

[cnoocy]

This is technology with an established use: carrying treasure out of a dungeon. https://www.dndbeyond.com/spells/2110-floating-disk

[Doctor_Faustus]

Epic cosplay idea!

[anon33176345]

Where do I strap in a toddler?