Timothy Birdnow

Meet George Jetson!

The crazy bugger actually went and built a flying car!

But I'll bet it won't fold up into a suitcase when he's done.

From the article:

usk showed off the car at an event outside Waco, Texas, with a demonstration that saw the car use a mixture of high-powered fans and thrusters to drive up an inverted ramp, spin around, and ease itself to a landing on the pavement below. The car also used the thrusters to lift itself over a Cybercab, Cybertruck, Tesla Semi, Model Y, and Model 3 while in motion.

"This will be the actual car that’s on the roads,” Musk said of the car, which Tesla showed accelerating 0 to 60 miles per hour in one second. "It literally is just going to puff itself up, and uh, and be able to do this, these maneuvers whenever you’d like.”

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This will, of course, end in fiery death and mayhem if people can try to fly over traffic jams. They will be all taking to the skies and hitting each-other in the process. Flying cars are a terrible idea, if a fun one.

And it probably would require a pilot's license of some sort. Hovercraft, which barely hover above the ground more than a foot or two, require one. So too do autogyros now; they used to be exempt because they flew too low and slow but now there is a special license for them as well. I doubt you are going to be able to fly your car with out a special license.

So I suspect the government will require a special license.

It's still really cool though!

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