Ace, you can get one, but it's going to set you back some serious scratch.

Eh... If there has to be all that tilt-rotoring and stuff, it's just a helicopter with a drive-train.

Plus, I doubt that thing works. I saw something about it on Discovery or something and I think it's prototype. Non-working.

When I speak of flyin' cars, I mean like the spinners in Blade Runner.

"Damn it!, I was promised hovercrafts" Red Foreman from That 70's Show.

Well crap, Ace, if I'm gonna want something from some Blade Runner future, I'm definitely a robot-that-looks-like-Sean-Young guy.

I always liked the meal-in-a-pill - who's the jackass that thought that one up, anyway?

"Let's see, how can we make people's lives easier? I know, people hate to eat, right?"

When I was in 1st grade the teacher had us draw pictures ow what life would be like in 1999. It seemed so far off at the time.

I was one of the kids that drew people zipping through the air with those little rocket shoes (which, in retrospect, look like a total deathtrap).

There will never be flying cars. People can't manage to steer the regular cars along the clearly-defined streets without running over all and sundry; imagine what the average life expectancy would be in a world where 16-year-olds could not only drive, but fly.

ROBOT cars, on the other hand, will eventually become mandatory. You will no longer have direct control of your vehicle; you will tell the robot control system (running a Microsoft OS, of course) where you want to go, it will consult the future version of Mapquest, and before you know it, you'll be quickly and safely driven somewhere entirely else, because Mapquest, even in the future, is poo-poo.

'Smatter Ace; isn't clapping your lights on and off futuristic enough for you?

Patterico had an item on exactly what the Claw is talking about a while back--new chip implants in the cars and such. As is usual for idicoy, it originated in California but is being researched in the DoT right now.

Hovercrafts? While you losers are stuck in traffic a mere 18 inches off the ground, I will be flying past all of you in my JetPak, laughing my ass off.

I was one of the kids that drew people zipping through the air with those little rocket shoes (which, in retrospect, look like a total deathtrap).

Seems Wiley Coyote's pioneer efforts with ACME would have worked out those bugs by now..ya think??
We may have to wait a bit--"Spock" in (Star Trek XIX) had a pair in Yosemite, as I recall

and as far as Bladerunner goes--I'd rather have one of those "blonde" mutants--(who the hell wuzzat, anyhow??) as a "house servant"..heh

Claw
izzat kinda like Sly Stallone in Demolition Man--or more recently, Will Smith in I Robot??
I'll take a clone of Sandra Bullock--she can "write my name and lick my ass" as often as she wants.....

The hell with flying cars. Other people's driving scares me enough as it is. I'll just stick with the fast-access porn.

Every time I mention flying cars on my blog some guy thinks he's doing me a favor by leaving a link to the skycar. Then they get all huffy when point out that it's been talked about for 10 years, never flew or even had anything more than a full-sized concept model built, and the guys behind the project keep insisting that they're only a few million in development money away from a the greatest revolution in transport technology since the first horse was domesticated.

Sounds like a big 'ol scam to me.

James

I just got a great deal on used cars that I wanted. It was tough making a choice which of the used cars to buy, but I did it.