14-04-2003 23:47									#1
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Remeber those hovercars from science fiction movies like Bladerunner...well they are so close we can almost taste em.

The Moller Skycar is a single pilot vehicle that both drives along the ground and can lift off reaching speeds of 350 mph. Supposedly it will be in full scale production in 2007 and will come with automatic features that allows you to push a couple buttons and sit back and enjoy the ride. Sorry no link I got this from a magazine.

	14-04-2003 23:56									#2
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Marty: "Hey Doc you better back up or we won't have enough road to hit 88."

Doc: "Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads."

	15-04-2003 00:01									#3
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The only reason I am for that is that it will reduce traffic. I love to drive and want to keep on driving. I hate to be a passenger in a car so you can imagine that sitting back and being driven is not my thing...

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	15-04-2003 00:03									#4
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My friend is working on that "car".

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flying car

The really neat thing about it is the rotary engine

	15-04-2003 00:11									#6
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I remember reading once, in a video game magazine, the one disadvantage of such a contrivance: what do you do when the thing runs out of fuel? In a car, it's just a matter of pushing it along to the nearest station; in a hovercraft...

"scrrrrrape, scrrrrrape, (muffled swear words, grunts), scrrrrrape..."

	15-04-2003 00:12									#7
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HA! not for some time i bet. a good number of people can just manage to drive a car without killing themselfs. now you're going to ask them them hover?!?

i'll go so far as to say you'll never see them. not for private use like todays basic car anyway.

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Not really a problem. Instead of a flashing light saying low on fuel, just design it to start a controlled decrease in power when a certain threashold of fuel is reached.

	15-04-2003 00:32									#9
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quote: Originally posted by Japher flying car The really neat thing about it is the rotary engine

Dont I know it.....dont I know it!! IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE!! NO! IT'S A FLYING RX-7!!!

	15-04-2003 00:46									#10
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I highly doubt we'd see such a car hit the stores anytime soon. I remember hearing back in 1992 how 2001 would be filled of flying cars
Such a thing requires huge amount of investments both to make one and to make it function. It will have a collective/military/corporation's use before being sold for the individual.

As long as I don't see the military using some prototypes of those, or a big corporation boasting with them, I won't even imagine riding one one day.

	15-04-2003 01:16									#11
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Ooh, when I get this I'll park it in my garage next to my Segway.

	15-04-2003 01:17									#12
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quote: Such a thing requires huge amount of investments both to make one and to make it function. It will have a collective/military/corporation's use before being sold for the individual.

The projected cost that I heard was that the public would be able to purchase it at a sticker price equal to a luxury car ($40,000). Also, from what I hear, is that it's not as far fetched as you may think.

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can you imagine what insurance would cost!!!!!

	15-04-2003 01:30									#14
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Or the hovercar version of "street racing"

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I'd be happier with a AT-TE, personally.

	15-04-2003 01:35									#17
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there would be hover car wreckage raining down on houses.

I guess one could get a FUI... or would that be a HUI.

	15-04-2003 01:36									#18
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how does one get pulled over??? or would it be grounded?

darn cops. i flew right by him (now you really can say that!).

	15-04-2003 01:37									#19
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People will never drive flying cars everywhere like in all those sci-fi movies (5th Element, Back to the Future 2, and Judge Dred come to mind). People have a hard enough time handling 2 dimensions to drive in. Can you imagine the chaos driving in 3 would cause? It would mean a whole shitload of dead people.

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How nice it would be. The pollutions would increase (obviously it takes more energy to hover than driving) and you could start stacking traffic jams upwards instead of sideways.

	15-04-2003 01:38									#21
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great...we'll be in hovercars and Boston's Big Dig will just be finishing...

	15-04-2003 01:41									#22
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Hover cars will never be made available for the public. Think of the mess it would create. People can't even drive in two dimensions, imagine a third. AHHHH!

And think about terrorism. Some nut could fly a car into anything.

Hover Cars... it won't happen.

	15-04-2003 01:48									#23
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I'm shocked by all the pessimism in Apolyton .

I think that it could happen but only if the automatic pilot works properly. If the government aggressively gets involved and creates a vast GPS network that reliably operates these autopilots then it's possible and woud curtail any "terroist" act and has the potential of reducing accidents.

	15-04-2003 01:54									#24
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Well, if there is some computer controlled thingy, fine. But I don't want people flying around. That's a recipe for disaster.

	15-04-2003 01:55									#25
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it would be something. no roads. that would be cool. buy stock in lawn mowers!

	15-04-2003 01:58									#26
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There would still be roads, methinks... even a computer controlled system would be affected by the weather.

	15-04-2003 02:00									#27
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so these cars will have wheels?? other than wheels just for landing. even than i think they wouldnt have 'wheels' to drive on. it would add too much weight. heck, might as well make them float.

	15-04-2003 02:09									#28
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A thread about cars... What a great oppotunity to announce that I passed the driving exams today from the first attempt.

	15-04-2003 02:13									#29
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quote: Originally posted by The Emperor Fabulous great...we'll be in hovercars and Boston's Big Dig will just be finishing...

	15-04-2003 03:42									#30
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quote: Originally posted by Sava There would still be roads, methinks... even a computer controlled system would be affected by the weather.

we would also still need roads for all of us poor people who will still have to use old fassioned forms or transportation.