Dan Goodman (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} dsgood) wrote,@ 2008-05-07 17:36:00 |
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Heading skyward to beat gridlock
By Maggie Shiels
Technology reporter, BBC News, Silicon Valley
The solution to gridlock on our overcrowded roads is to take to the air in a plane-car hybrid that will revolutionise the way society works.
This vision of the future twenty years hence was revealed at the 2008 Electric Aircraft Symposium held a stone's throw from San Francisco airport in California.
Plotting the next frontier in green technology was Richard Jones, a technical fellow at Boeing Phantom Works.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/technol
Aircars replacing groundcars is a perennial "just around the corner" prediction. The earliest prediction I've seen was in 1943 (when it was to happen right after the War ended.)
Heading skyward to beat gridlock
By Maggie Shiels
Technology reporter, BBC News, Silicon Valley
The solution to gridlock on our overcrowded roads is to take to the air in a plane-car hybrid that will revolutionise the way society works.
This vision of the future twenty years hence was revealed at the 2008 Electric Aircraft Symposium held a stone's throw from San Francisco airport in California.
Plotting the next frontier in green technology was Richard Jones, a technical fellow at Boeing Phantom Works.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/technol
Aircars replacing groundcars is a perennial "just around the corner" prediction. The earliest prediction I've seen was in 1943 (when it was to happen right after the War ended.)
