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It puts the fun into “In 2000 we’ll have flying cars” when the whole XXth century was spent building highways and ramps that were higher and higher into the air
by eastbound 4y ago
It puts the fun into “In 2000 we’ll have flying cars” when the whole XXth century was spent building highways and ramps that were higher and higher into the air, and the whole XXIth will be spent trying to put them underground. The real futurist landscape is a city like Lyon in France, or Amsterdam, where cars are put away and we walk or bike to work.
- systemtest 3y agoMost of the times I have worked in Amsterdam people did not go to work by bike or on foot. Most people came in by car, the second largest group used the train into Amsterdam and only a small part was able to walk or bike to work. Those were usually upper-management, people able to afford housing in Amsterdam and not living in the surrounding suburbs and satellite cities. For them it was still a 25 minute bike ride to the industrial estate that the office was in, so sometimes they would call an Uber to work. Anecdotal though.
- startupsfail 4y agoFlying cars is a dream of baby boomers. To everyone else, this is a nightmarish scenario of unending noise and exhaust spewing from these baby boomers flying over the residential areas.
- porkbeer 3y agoI will skip the ignorant ageat drivel, but why would there be exhaust spewing any more than any car, electric or otherwise? The noise point is fair, as passing airliners are already quite loud, and I am quite far from any airport.
- startupsfail 3y agoWell, you wouldn’t expect a baby boomer to drive something tiny and electric, right? Traditionally it’d be a V8 engine pickup truck.
- tomrod 4y agoWe have plenty of flying cars today thanks to our crumbling infrastructure! It's that infernal hard stop at the end that's the problem. /s
- lobochrome 4y agoHem-hem Tokyo Hem-hem