Post #153818 by Tiki-bot on Tue, Apr 19, 2005 3:02 PM

On 2005-04-19 13:22, freddiefreelance wrote:
...try out a Moller Air Car...

We don't have Robot Domestics? Try out a Roomba Robot Vacumn.

I'm with you, FF, on the Roomba - I really want one of those. I'll even name it "Rosie".
But the Moller Skycar is nothing but an expensive boondoggle. I've read all there is to read about it and it's a joke. I'm not saying people shouldn't dream this big, but in the great tradition of crackpot flying car inventors, he conveniently pushes aside issues of human nature, safety, air traffic control, user training & fallibility, and noise pollution, all for the visual appeal of a helicopter disguised as a car.

The Moller Skycar reminds me of those drawings from the end of the 19th century where they proposed men would fly to the moon in iron capsules fired out of canons. He's using ancient technology to elaborately solve a simple problem of overcrowding on our roads. It's like using an h-bomb to kill a mosquito.

When it comes to transportation, I dream of extensive networks of mass transit trains and high speed rail - all attainable and doable with current technology and infinitely more practical than everyone flying around in their own gas-guzzling air-cars. They can even look like Disneyland's monorail to give them that futuristic touch.