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Why Don't We Have Flying Cars: Blame the government

Posted by overmanwarrior 12 years, 7 months ago to Technology

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I feel very strongly about this issue over flying cars. The only reason we do not have them yet is because there is no will to make them from the aviation industry. Just like the difficulty in making AS2 in Hollywood, the current aerospace industry connected to government contracts do not want personal flight from a driveway to their destination. The reason is that too many industries "depend" on the old infrastructure. The Skycar M400 would destroy too many government jobs. How does that make you feel?

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Posted by DR_BRETT 12 years, 6 months ago

Private Aviation also, was MURDERED by Gov't in the early 1980's' insurance fiasco .

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Posted by itisntluck 12 years, 6 months ago

Over - I watched the video and wasn't that impressed with the "car" since the demo was on a tether. Can you imagine 50 million of those suckers mucking up the sky? I won't say a word about women drivers. If that thing has a ceiling of 30,000 feet, I'd definitely want a pressurized cabin. <s>

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  Posted by overmanwarrior 12 years, 6 months ago
  
  Moller says he's a couple of years away, and the cabins would be pressurized. And they fly by GPS. Its a major infrastructure change, which is of course unattractive to to those with a foot in the old one.
  
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    Posted by WesleyMooch 12 years, 6 months ago
    
    Hey Rich, I too have followed Moller since I was a kid, and I think you're roughly right about the time frame. However, as I'm sure you're aware, the Chinese concern with which Moller has teamed up to put the Skycar into production *in and for* *China*, says it's more like five years. Forget about the Skycar in American skies, ain' goan happen. Moller has discovered what most of the world except America has: the lines on the graph showing America's fall into decrepit socialism and China's rise to capitalism have crossed.
    
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      Posted by overmanwarrior 12 years, 6 months ago
      
      Thanks for that. He is very frustrated and told me they were spending over a billion dollars on Skycar in China. I believe he said "we want jobs in America, and here they are, but nobody is interested." Doesn't that just make you sick? It does me. It was invented in America, and they're going to fly it there first! But that's why it's a modern Atlas Shrugged story. It might as well be Galt's engine sitting on a forgotten shelf.
      
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        Posted by WesleyMooch 12 years, 6 months ago
        
        Agreed, Moller is a flesh and blood John Galt whom America doesn't deserve -- not in the state she has chosen for herself. As for China, I can think of no reason to visit her, save to fly a Skycar.
        
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        Posted by overmanwarrior 12 years, 6 months ago
        
        Sad for us, they'll develop it there then we'll start using them here, as a second hander. I have tried to convince politicians to buy into them by commuting from Washington to their districts without commercial air travel. I have tried to get amusment parks interested in using them as a shuttle service to build public trust. Nobody is listening, because Mollar doesn't have a "guy in Washington." That's really what it comes down to. If you can't buy a lobbyist, you can't play the game in America anymore. And that is not out of the plot of a book. That's real life.
        
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        Posted by WesleyMooch 12 years, 6 months ago
        
        I just don't see it here, man, not even second hand. If you want to fly a car, you'll need to go to China, just like if you want a high speed train ride, you'll need to go to Japan, Germany, or France.
        Because neither is happening here in our lifetime, our children's, grandchildren's, or great-grandchildren's.
        
        But I would wager, in our lifetime we will see a Chinese plant his flag on Mars, while we're still high-fiving each other over a billion-dollar dune buggy rolling around on the red planet.
        
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