The future is now

[chuckro]

Where's my flying car?

At a quarter-mil price tag, I don't think there's going to be a huge market for them, but we're getting there. What we really need is someone to design the "Model T" of flying cars--automobiles were once considered an overpriced "plaything of the rich", too.

Comments

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

Well, it does require a pilot's license and 20 hours of flight time to get certified, which is a good start. That, and the fact you'd need to go through an airfield to take off means there's a checkpoint before people can fly drunk, try to load the carplane with weapons, etc.

[firynze.livejournal.com]

I'm more concerned about filing flight plans and possible collisions. The sky is more open than the roads, which can be both good and bad in this case...

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

We have the technology to prevent that, though. Central monitoring of large numbers of vehicles is possible on a scale unprecedented a couple of decades ago. Hell, just build a GPS into every one of these things that can warn them if anyone else gets close or if they get too close to a stationary object.

[firynze.livejournal.com]

Exactly - we can make this safe, but we need to think about it in advance, instead of reacting later.