Flying cars will NEVER take off...no pun intended.
I'd love to see it happen but for god's sakes, we can't even keep Jets from being hijacked. The obvious evolution of terrorism would see these flying cars being used as SUICIDE MISSILES laden with explosives.
I am suprised they can get 50 MPG out of an airplane and not my Chrysler 300C. :(
That isn't really the concern with these cars. Small aircraft operators can easily fly into buildings; but they wouldn't really do any big damage. They may kill one or two people, but the same can easily be accomplished by running out onto a street with a knife and stabbing a few people. Should we ban knives? Or maybe just ban running? ;-)
The real concern here are the people themselves. Most people in the US don't know how to drive, and are completely incapable of figuring out how to, so I really don't want to be in the air with these same people.
Until personal transportation is conducted via centralized computer (such as in I, Robot), high-speed personal transportation will never be possible.
Apparently the terrorists not only hate our freedoms, they hate our innovation, our love of new things, and our entrepreneurial spirit.
And apparently they've cowed the whole lot of us.
I agree, the Americans are gone as a world force. Not because of the terrorists, but because the Americans have reacted to the terrorists with genuine terror. They now think like a bunch of wussies and have stopped doing cool things if they're afraid one or two people will get killed.
If this is what happened to Brave America, the terrorists have indeed won.
Doesn't anyone have any commonsense anymore. What difference does it make to terrorists if these flying cars come on the market. They already use car bombs and they could use single engine planes or ultralights today. Point being made is they already have the tools to do tyhe work to day and adding these flying cars won't make a even a small difference. Thesea flying cars will also be safer than driving. If you put all the cars in the world in the air today their would still be miles of airspace separating them. They will also fly themselves with GPS and will take human error out of the equation. nextlevelrealty.com
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DickHardknocks @ Aug 12th 2007 11:07PM
Flying cars will NEVER take off...no pun intended.
I'd love to see it happen but for god's sakes, we can't even keep Jets from being hijacked. The obvious evolution of terrorism would see these flying cars being used as SUICIDE MISSILES laden with explosives.
I am suprised they can get 50 MPG out of an airplane and not my Chrysler 300C. :(
paul34 @ Aug 12th 2007 11:20PM
Heh, another victim of the fear machine I see ;-)
That isn't really the concern with these cars. Small aircraft operators can easily fly into buildings; but they wouldn't really do any big damage. They may kill one or two people, but the same can easily be accomplished by running out onto a street with a knife and stabbing a few people. Should we ban knives? Or maybe just ban running? ;-)
The real concern here are the people themselves. Most people in the US don't know how to drive, and are completely incapable of figuring out how to, so I really don't want to be in the air with these same people.
Until personal transportation is conducted via centralized computer (such as in I, Robot), high-speed personal transportation will never be possible.
Borat @ Aug 13th 2007 1:39AM
The terrorists really have won.
Bad Beaver @ Aug 13th 2007 4:10AM
Worst Comment This Week.
Steve R @ Aug 13th 2007 8:32AM
Apparently the terrorists not only hate our freedoms, they hate our innovation, our love of new things, and our entrepreneurial spirit.
And apparently they've cowed the whole lot of us.
I agree, the Americans are gone as a world force. Not because of the terrorists, but because the Americans have reacted to the terrorists with genuine terror. They now think like a bunch of wussies and have stopped doing cool things if they're afraid one or two people will get killed.
If this is what happened to Brave America, the terrorists have indeed won.
commonsense @ Aug 13th 2007 9:43AM
Doesn't anyone have any commonsense anymore. What difference does it make to terrorists if these flying cars come on the market. They already use car bombs and they could use single engine planes or ultralights today. Point being made is they already have the tools to do tyhe work to day and adding these flying cars won't make a even a small difference. Thesea flying cars will also be safer than driving. If you put all the cars in the world in the air today their would still be miles of airspace separating them. They will also fly themselves with GPS and will take human error out of the equation. nextlevelrealty.com
NovaLand @ Aug 13th 2007 9:59AM
When four dimensional travel becomes available, three dimensional travel will be cheap enough for everyone to use.
ryan @ Aug 13th 2007 8:15PM
Flying cars won't take off because of Terrorists!!!! WOW, priceless.