February 16, 2006
According to researchers at MIT, our world may soon look a little bit more like “The Jetsons”.
Terrafuiga, a startup created by a group of MIT graduates, aims to produce the worlds first production flying car by the end of the decade. The car will fly at an altitude of around 12,000 feet, get almost 30 miles to the gallon, and will carry two people along with their luggage up to 500 miles. The wings will even fold up when not in use to allow tight parking and urban driving. If you want one of these, you better start saving up, as one will cost you a whopping $148,000. For more information check out
this News.com article or
click here to view mock-up photos of the car.
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Flying cars may help us reduce the number of incompetent drivers “on the air.” I imagine the driving test for something that flies being much more involved than some parallel parking and stopping at every red hexagon on the side walk. On the other hand, if this thing run on fuel, air pollution is going to be ridiculous. It’s bad enough already in major cities around the 3rd world…. Something to think about before we try to catch up with George Jetson.
I agree that air polution will be a problem, and what about TRAFFIC? Say, in the U.S. we have a couple million people flying around at 10,000 feet, mostly around big cities. The traffic will be hell. How can we ensure that mid-air collisions will not become commonplace?