Larry Page’s startups working on flying cars

Re:Larry Page’s startups working on flying cars by rl3 on Thursday June 09, 2016 @09:25AM (#11869185)

Every time I see an article on flying cars, I can't help but be reminded of an old IBM commercial[0] from 2000.

Deliciously ironic considering it represented the fact that mainstream culture had all but written off the idea entirely.

[0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=vzm6pvHPSGo

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Re:Larry Page’s startups working on flying cars by boulos on Thursday June 09, 2016 @11:20AM (#11869974)

More disappointingly, we still can't just walk out of a store with goods and have it charge us. That said, the idea of all the products having RF things on them would be ultra creepy, so I'm guessing that's the limiting factor.

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Re:Larry Page’s startups working on flying cars by kuschku on Thursday June 09, 2016 @12:32PM (#11870459)

Well, in some stores, RFID on all products already exists.

Especially as they were originally added to prevent theft, and are now kinda for free, it’s quite cheap to add that feature.

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Re:Larry Page’s startups working on flying cars by MalcolmPF on Thursday June 09, 2016 @09:44AM (#11869307)

The Sisko is of... IBM?

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