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Palomar

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From: USA

Registered: 2002-05-30

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Re: Meet the Jetsons?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s … g_cars]The future of flying cars

*As a kid I thought ideas like these were wonderful.  After years of driving with assorted nuts and morons on the road, I'm not so keen.  Especially when considering instead of worrying about a car running off the road and hitting the side of your house, in this scenario they could crash ONTO your house.  :-\

Will be interesting to see this technology develop, though.  I like technology...but should this be "for the masses"?  ??? 

And the concept of smaller, more efficient and commonly used airplanes flying down SIDE STREETS in 15 to 20 years.    I dunno...there's not enough space between houses on either side of the street for my comfort!

http://www.neatstuff.net/games/jetsons.jpg]George, Jane and Company

--Cindy

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Martian Republic

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From: Haltom City- Dallas/Fort Worth

Registered: 2004-06-13

Posts: 855

Re: Meet the Jetsons?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s … g_cars]The future of flying cars

*As a kid I thought ideas like these were wonderful.  After years of driving with assorted nuts and morons on the road, I'm not so keen.  Especially when considering instead of worrying about a car running off the road and hitting the side of your house, in this scenario they could crash ONTO your house.  :-\

Will be interesting to see this technology develop, though.  I like technology...but should this be "for the masses"?  ??? 

And the concept of smaller, more efficient and commonly used airplanes flying down SIDE STREETS in 15 to 20 years.    I dunno...there's not enough space between houses on either side of the street for my comfort!

http://www.neatstuff.net/games/jetsons.jpg]George, Jane and Company

--Cindy

A compromise to a flying car might be a levitated car that follows guide rail or wire underneath the road way or path you want them to follow. That way it would only be a foot or two off the ground and the boundaries would be set as to where they could go. Also we could get away from rubber tire and gas driven engines which cause pollution.

We can pick and choose which technology that we choose to use or even put restriction on that technology by engineering limitation on that technology when we engineer it. But, I live in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area and even if they were not a safety issue, pollution or noise problem, I’m not sure that I would want to see thousand or tens of thousand of them in the sky though.

Larry,

smurf975

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Registered: 2004-05-30

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Re: Meet the Jetsons?

A compromise to a flying car might be a levitated car that follows guide rail or wire underneath the road way or path you want them to follow. That way it would only be a foot or two off the ground and the boundaries would be set as to where they could go. Also we could get away from rubber tire and gas driven engines which cause pollution.

We can pick and choose which technology that we choose to use or even put restriction on that technology by engineering limitation on that technology when we engineer it. But, I live in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area and even if they were not a safety issue, pollution or noise problem, I’m not sure that I would want to see thousand or tens of thousand of them in the sky though.

Larry,

Assuming you are not talking about anti gravity devices, I assume you're talking about electromagnetical levitation.

Which is possible for perhaps public transport. But do you really think this (extremly expensive) investation will replace engines in the vehicles (gas burning) with communal (magnets)?
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Personally I think "flying cars" could work.
Yes will have cars that will crash down on someones home. But like now that chance will be as big as now a cesna crashing on your house.

Why? Because all of the flying cars will be autopiloted as soon as they leave 2D space (roads) and enter 3D space (air). As someone else said on a different forum: "They will be as reliable as an horse taking a drunken rider to it's (home) barn."

Like now in keeping your lane with flying cars it will be about keeing your 3D lane.

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However at this point and time I don't see technologies that make flying cars possible.

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