{"id":894,"date":"2007-11-10T22:52:21","date_gmt":"2007-11-10T22:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/11\/10\/flying-cars-are-here\/"},"modified":"2007-11-10T22:52:21","modified_gmt":"2007-11-10T22:52:21","slug":"flying-cars-are-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/10\/flying-cars-are-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying Cars are Here!"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve been waiting far too long for our flying cars. Here is Popular Mechanics making note of the lack of actual flying cars:\"i-4de23dd46e25f83a0790043321430f47-Flying_car,_cover_of_Popular_Mechanics,_Feb_1951.jpg\"And here’s Popular Science putting in their two cents:\"i-2ceb8b98dd6e8eb386896ee27435965a-456px-Cover_of_Pop_Science_Mar_2006_Cover_1.jpg\"But now, it seems that Flying Cars are just around the corner…<\/em>From Slashdot:<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“Complaints of the non-existence of flying cars as expressions of disappointment in the failure of the present to measure up to the glory of past predictions have long been a staple of popular culture but all that is about to change when Terrafugia introduces their $148,000 “Transition,” a 19-foot, two-seater that the company describes as a roadable light-sport aircraft. The problem is that the U.S. doesn’t have the infrastructure in place to make landing in front of your house a viable alternative yet and a sky filled with people who don’t have pilot’s licenses could also be a problem. The idea is to take advantage of the 6,000 public airports in the U.S. so a pilot can fly into a small airport (video) and instead of getting a rental car, just fold up the wings on the aircraft and drive away. Terrafugia expects the first production model to be ready in 2009 and says they’ve already received advanced orders for 30 to 50 Transitions.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is the Terrafugia car landing:\"i-d1582118e5ea3e546e146a5995ae7212-Screenshot1.png\"And this is the very same car <\/em>pulling into your garage.\"i-4379d851ff42a45b7b601069699c1c8e-Screenshot7.png\"Go HERE<\/a> to find out more, and HERE<\/a> to see an excellent animation of the Terrafugia Flying Car.Hey, wait, that was an animation? Is it possible that they don’t quite exist yet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve been waiting far too long for our flying cars. Here is Popular Mechanics making note of the lack of actual flying cars:And here’s Popular Science putting in their two cents:But now, it seems that Flying Cars are just around the corner…From Slashdot: “Complaints of the non-existence of flying cars as expressions of disappointment in … Continue reading Flying Cars are Here!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[123,57],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-eq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}