The year 2010...where are the flying cars!?

[evoesque]

So next year is 2010.

When I was a nipper I always thought we would have flying cars, houses on the moon and teleportation machines.

Instead we have the Toyota Prius, Barrat homes on flood plains and bendy buses.

What a crock.

[Los Palmas 7]

I'm still waiting for silver jump-suits and meals in pill form.

The comics lied to us.

[Astacus]

cant help with moon houses and teleportation but check out the flying cars at

http://www.gizmowatch.com/entry/top-ten-flying-car...

and

http://www.moller.com/

and this one you have got to see!


http://www.terrafugia.com/Flight_1146.html

ETA last clip

Edited by Astacus on Saturday 6th June 13:06

[collateral]

Most people can't cope with operating a vehicle on the ground!

[Los Palmas 7]

collateral said:

Most people can't cope with operating a vehicle on the ground!

Good point. You think lane discipline is bad now, imagine if there were no lanes...

[collateral]

Los Palmas 7 said:

collateral said:

Most people can't cope with operating a vehicle on the ground!

Good point. You think lane discipline is bad now, imagine if there were no lanes...

Running out of petrol would be a bit more serious too

[Balmoral Green]

collateral said:

Los Palmas 7 said:

collateral said:

Most people can't cope with operating a vehicle on the ground!

Good point. You think lane discipline is bad now, imagine if there were no lanes...

Running out of petrol would be a bit more serious too

That's right, you'd be stuck up there forever.

[Strawman]

I have some anti-gravity hover boots for sale if you want to buy them.

[Republik]

I still want a hover board

[tim2100]

Balmoral Green said:

collateral said:

Los Palmas 7 said:

collateral said:

Most people can't cope with operating a vehicle on the ground!

Good point. You think lane discipline is bad now, imagine if there were no lanes...

Running out of petrol would be a bit more serious too

That's right, you'd be stuck up there forever.

Make sure they don't stall!

[Serpentium]

collateral said:

Most people can't cope with operating a vehicle on the ground!

quite so,

I personally despair at the lack of spandex jackets in Matalan's

on the car front though, the better cars of nowadays filter down through the market into the hands of stupid chavs (also not mentioned in 'things to come') at an alarming rate, which would suggest the same fate for flying cars.


Those that are not currently either on bricks or impounded for not displaying a current AFL (air fund licence)

[skip_1]

There's still 6 months yet. I'm holding out hope that a company rushes out their secretly developed flying cars, which the government can't tax (no road tax ) and they are free and plentiful

[stew-S160]

Think of it this way- the rate at which humans progressed up until the end of the 20th century, we had every right to imagine a future full of these things like flying cars, meal pills, etc. But, something went wrong towards the end of the 20th, a distint lack of progress, in some cases, regress. Intelligence was shunned in favour of stupid chavs.

Sure, we have some nice shiney new stuff, but not as much as we'd have if people were allowed to work properly and given the chance.

[evoesque]

This is what I'm talking about...



Houses in the sky, flying cars etc.

Pretty disappointed tbh. Fingers crossed that the hover board comes good soon.

[minisloth]

Republik said:

I still want a hover board

Me to!

[Pigeon]

I want the meals in pill form, save all this "eating" st.

[glazbagun]

Astacus said:

cant help with moon houses and teleportation but check out the flying cars at

http://www.gizmowatch.com/entry/top-ten-flying-car...

I love this one; looks like that dutch tricycle thing with a rotor, but I imagine it forling like one of the Transformers did. Surely this is do-able, even if not green in the slightest?

[evoesque]

glazbagun said:

Astacus said:

cant help with moon houses and teleportation but check out the flying cars at

http://www.gizmowatch.com/entry/top-ten-flying-car...

I love this one; looks like that dutch tricycle thing with a rotor, but I imagine it forling like one of the Transformers did. Surely this is do-able, even if not green in the slightest?

Now thats what I'm talking about!

Wouldn't mind seeing these in the air in 2010 either...

[DonkeyApple]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/7860966/T...

Well, it's here.

[The Wookie]

stew-S160 said:

Think of it this way- the rate at which humans progressed up until the end of the 20th century, we had every right to imagine a future full of these things like flying cars, meal pills, etc. But, something went wrong towards the end of the 20th, a distint lack of progress, in some cases, regress. Intelligence was shunned in favour of stupid chavs.

Sure, we have some nice shiney new stuff, but not as much as we'd have if people were allowed to work properly and given the chance.

So basically to sum up, blame George Bush and Tony Blair... And Gordo obviously.