And does anyone really care??
If the information from my childhood and adolescence was even remotely credible, we should have flying cars by now. I remember watching The Jetsons tooling around Orbit City in their futuristic flying saucers, Doctor Emmett Brown and Marty McFly traveling through time to 2015 (a mere 3 years from now) in a flying DeLorean DMC-12 in Back to the Future Part II, Dick van Dyke flying over Bavaria in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang -- not to mention, Meet the Robinsons, The Fifth Element, Blade Runner and a whole host of other science fiction-based television shows and movies which show the apparent ease of using flying automobiles as regular modes of transportation. All big, fat lies! That is until recently...
Ostensibly, a company based in Woburn, MA, Terrafugia, is close to putting flying cars into production and for just under $300,000, you too could own one of these machines! (See the photo below) But really -- would you want to? Upkeep on a automobile is difficult enough, I can't imagine how much harder a flying car would be. Additionally, how convenient would this vehicle be? First you have to drive to a local airport, fly to another airport, and then drive to your destination. Not exactly the best way to get to work in the morning. Plus, with a $300,000 price tag, this gadget is definitely for the rich and the shameless! If you have that kind of money to throw away, please contact me and I can give you better ideas on where you can put your money! (And yes, I meant that the way it sounded!)
I know most people joke about where are the flying cars, but I'll gladly give up on that during my lifetime. It seems a little ridiculous. But I would like to know when time travel will be available. To have the opportunity to travel to the past or the future... now, that would be an amazing feat!
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