I applaud the direction, but I do have one small nit to pick: "there really hasn’t been much advance in car technology in the intervening 126 years" You can d

I applaud the direction, but I do have one small nit to pick: "there really hasn’t been much advance in car technology in the intervening 126 years" You can drive all day every day for fifty years [1] and never use the biggest feature we've been researching for cars, but that doesn't mean it's any less of a breakthrough. "Between 1970 and 2010, the number of fatalities decreased by 38% and the number of injury crashes by 13%. In the same period, the number of vehicles and the distance travelled more than doubled." Many of those gains are due to the parade of safety technologies over the last several decades. Electronic stability control, airbags, crumple zones. If we go all the way back to Benz, then we should talk about seatbelts and shatter proof glass too. Cars haven't exactly been stagnant, we've just had a subtler priority. Those safety advances will lay an important foundation, and hopefully be extended as we shoot for a "crash proof" personal flying vehicle. [1] http://www.npr.org/2012/01/30/146075552/ups-driver-honored-for-accident-free-career http://www.npr.org/2012/01/30/146075552/ups-driver-honored-f... [2] http://www.internationaltransportforum.org/irtadpublic/pdf/11IrtadReport.pdf http://www.internationaltransportforum.org/irtadpublic/pdf/1...