Posted
8/27/2004 09:19:00 PM
by Douglas
Ya know that guy ahead of you in traffic that's listening to Milli Vanilli while eating a burrito? Do you want to give him access to fly in the same airspace you'd be flying in? Me
neither. It's a frustrated commuter's escapist fantasy: literally lifting your car out of a clogged highway and soaring through the skies, landing just in time to motor into your driveway.
Researchers stress that the ultimate dream — an affordable, easy-to-use vehicle that could allow regular people to fly 200 miles to a meeting and also drive 15 miles to the mall — is still probably decades away.
But engineers at NASA, Boeing Co. and elsewhere say the basis for a flying car is there. People have been building, or trying to build, such vehicles for decades.
Not that I'm trying to tick off any of my long-time readers about the government's stranglehold on General Aviation, and I
certainly don't have anything negative to say about Boeing
or NASA engineers, but take a good look around at idiots on the highways before you advocate giving these mouth-breathers access to another dimension.