Forget Driverless Cars. Flying Vehicles Are Almost Here

[Stellar]

Forget Driverless Cars. Flying Vehicles Are Almost Here

When was the last time you were stuck in traffic and wished you could press a button on the dashboard, turn your car into a helicopter and soar away from the rush-hour snarl at, say, 200 miles per hour? Yesterday, perhaps?

LOL, The Jetsons?


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/flying-cars_55bb2332e4b0d4f33a024954?utm_hp_ref=cars#comments

[brush]

1. Sounds nice but no thanks

Too many horrendous drivers already on our flat streets — add the possibility of making bad decisions in 360 degrees — I'll pass.

[Stellar]

2. Not to mention Rush hour traffic.

Those who want it, please don't drive over my house.

[Brother Buzz]

3. This one looks to beat the Hell out of the ones the idiot up the lane...

has been working on for forty years. The FAA (and even the FEC) have been stifling his project for years...or so he says.

http://www.moller.com/

[eggplant]

7. The Federal Election Commision?

[Brother Buzz]

8. OMG, a gremlin switched the S and F keys on my keyboard

SEC

https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/comp17987.htm

[eggplant]

12. I figured as much. :)

Too many TLAs.

[Major Nikon]

38. Pretty sure that one is a fraud

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moller_M400_Skycar

[Brother Buzz]

40. LOL, ya think?

The project has been rife with fraud from the get-go. It's always amusing how the 'Doctor' re-invents the project every couple of years in attempt to draw more sucker money in. Hell, I think every cub reported in the region has done a story on him over the decades.

[mr clean]

4. yet another "toy" for the 1%

n/t

[newthinking]

5. exactly. And the 99% will get no benefit and lose another commons area.

[not fooled]

6. Plus, such a vehicle would sound...

...the death knell for wildlands--if outlying undeveloped areas are then brought within "commuting distance", all bets are off as to rampant development EVERYWHERE. The only factor protecting vast swaths of America now from being paved over is that they simply are too far away from everything.

[Uncle Joe]

17. No doubt the first ones will be expensive but as they produce them

by scale, the prices will dramtically drop.

[valerief]

20. Bingo!

[Charles de Gaudless]

9. I've been hearing that since the 1950s

Along with Marilyn Monroe sex androids.

[Uncle Joe]

18. The Japanese are getting closer to making that a reality as well.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=japanese+sex+robots

[Stellar]

19. As a kid, I thought we would be flying to work everyday by the 1970's. LOL!

In the 50's, 20yrs seemed a LONG ways away to me. Ahh, to be a kid and daydreaming...

[Uncle Joe]

21. I remember when 2000 was the distant future, afterwards, Conan O'Brien

spoofed the same feeling.

[Stellar]

22. LOL, funny!

and Starr Jones was still fat back then and now she's skinny.

[Uncle Joe]

23. Of course some visions of the future have become reality or even been surpassed.

[Stellar]

24. LOL. @ Worf...too funny.

I think Star Trek was their motivation for a lot of those things in the first place. I would love for them to invent a holodeck so I could put one in my basement.

[Uncle Joe]

25. I agree, the dreamers or visionaries come first, as for a holodeck, it's just a matter of time.

http://earhustle411.com/new-technology-may-make-smartphones-project-3d-hologram-christmas-2015/

A mobile phone used to be a simple device for texting and calling. Then it became a smartphone boasting of Internet and camera functionality. Now, the smartphone can be converted into a microscope through an attachable lens that can help magnify the object. One might wonder what the future would be like with a smartphone capable of projecting 3D holograms floating into thin air.

Ostendo, a startup based in California, makes this possible following its creation of a hologram projector chip for smartphones with two versions rolling out in 2015 or 2016. The cost of the chipset is estimated at $30.

[Stellar]

29. Now that's what I'm talking about. And at my price point too.

Ostendo, a startup based in California, makes this possible following its creation of a hologram projector chip for smartphones with two versions rolling out in 2015 or 2016. The cost of the chipset is estimated at $30.

Hope it works, I'd hate to come up missing so how.

[Uncle Joe]

34. I agree, $30 is not bad.

Peace to you, Stellar.

[arcane1]

30. Star Trek communicators are a thousand times more advanced than cell phones

I'm not sure why that comparison keeps appearing. I guess because we had flip-phones for a few years?

[Uncle Joe]

31. Star Trek communicators were just phones, they did have longer range, but they couldn't

hook up to all the world's knowledge via the Internet or take pics, video and a host of features, not to mention the holographic versions coming out this year or in 2016.

[arcane1]

32. True, you had to be on the ship to access that cool stuff n/t

[Uncle Joe]

33. On further thought, I imagine satellite phones are coming closer to that kind of range, not

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there yet but coming closer.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

10. Nope. Not until they invent antigravity.

[americannightmare]

11. Oh, just what we need...

debris from flying car crashes falling from the sky!

[FiveGoodMen]

13. What kind of mileage do you suppose that gets?

[Uncle Joe]

14. I don't know but they do state that it's a hybrid. n/t

[zebonaut]

15. Just wait till there are 50,000 of them in the sky at the same time

[Stellar]

16. It's like I said, I don't want them flying over my house in rush hour.

Some people can't even drive down the street in a straight line, without causing an accident. Just imagine speed racing in the sky.

[cantbeserious]

26. Have Been Waiting Since Birth - No Longer Have Expectations - Toys For The 1%

eom

[Warpy]

27. Terrific, now Joe Blow who thinks he drives better drunk

can crash through your roof instead of taking out the fence and shrubbery on your front lawn.

I do not welcome the flying car.

[Uncle Joe]

28. That's definitely a potential hazard, Warpy but everything is becoming automated even land cars.

I believe at some point in the future, people will rarely be driving any cars, just plug in the destination coordinates and it will take you there.

They will also need to create car fly zones and landing pads so as not to fly over residential neighborhoods and other restricted places.

[haikugal]

35. Noise pollution ugh...I like my sky free of people's flying machines...

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

36. So traffic moves up, with no rules, lights, lines?

Sure would make good TV!

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

37. How do they get in/out of the car?

[Stellar]

42. Good question...transporter perhaps.

This car-of-future is keeping me in my Star Trek world I guess.

[Major Nikon]

39. Almost? They've been here for over 50 years

[Stellar]

41. I think I remember seeing that in a magazine of some kind years ago.

It does look antiquated, though, Where would they park it, do the wing fold?

[Major Nikon]

43. I watched it fly into Oshkosh a few years back

This is my picture of the wings stowed and towed.

[Stellar]

44. Cool! It's as long as a truck.

I wish this car had a video, I'd love to see it in action!

Thanks for sharing!

[Major Nikon]

45. There's probably some videos of it on the youtubes

You can search for aerocar, and/or N102D which is the tail number of this plane which is the only one left still flying.

[Stellar]

46. Will do...thanks Major Nikon! nt

[tclambert]

47. It will create a sales boom for bunker houses built to protect us from flaming debris

falling from the sky. Urban renewal will require massive reconstruction efforts as major cities burn to the ground. Airliner manufacturers will have to build a hundred times as many new planes due to the frequency of teen drivers and drunk drivers flying their cars over airports.

In other words, it will create many new business opportunities.

Honestly, look at how people drive on the freeway. You want that idiot who nearly forced you off the road to pilot an aircraft?

[Stellar]

48. See, that's all I can think of...

crap falling from the sky all over the place. You walk out of your house, look up and see hundreds in your community coming from every which way above your head. And teen drivers and hot-rodders? no, thank you. There's always some dare-devil trying to prove something.