Where are those flying cars we were promised?

[gategrrl]

 Remember way back when, Buck Rogers, Heinlein and all those other SciFiGuys predicted the wave of the future was going to be flying cars? (there was even a line in a movie/TV show I saw recently where a character asked, "where are the flying cars?") Well, here is a flying car...or is it a driving plane? You decide! Pretty cool stuff, I think.

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Avery Brooks in an ad

[justalurkr.livejournal.com]

I think it was right before the turn of the millennium, and he was standing by a window or on a street with normal wheeled jobbies whizzing by, saying "Where are the hovercars? We were promised hovercars!"

Ad for auto insurance? I don't remember that bit, for which the appropriate ad agency should so totally be fired.

Anyway, that prototype is verrry interesting. There's a whole bedroom community somewhere between my parents in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada and San Francisco where hangar-sized garages are standard issue on the homes so people can taxi right out and fly to the City. Cool if we could do away with the real estate-eating storage facility!

Google is Our Friend

[justalurkr.livejournal.com]

I take it back, the ad is for IBM software, and he is saying "flying cars."

http://hubpages.com/hub/Where_Are_the_Flying_Cars_Technology_and_SciFi

The article has a link to the full ad! :D

Re: Avery Brooks in an ad

[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I figured if they're building a convergent machine like this that they've done their market research to find communities like the one you mentioned: near small airports, little access to major airports...

The carplanes are kind of pricey, though. I don't know how they compare with a used Cessna, for instance, but if you didn't have to pay for a car in addition to an airplane, it might be a savings. But its like watching a bat crawl around on the ground.

Re: Google is Our Friend

[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

Cool! I remember that Avery Brooks ad. BUT I *know* there was a line in a movie or a television show recently that had a similiar line, too. I think it was a comedy, but I'm not sure. I'll have to ask the Guy: he has a much better memory than I do.