Re:Larry Page is pouring millions into flying cars
by dimino on Friday December 30, 2016 @07:11PM
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Yes, we want flying cars, and yes we "need" them if we want to solve congestion and traffic as our planet grows beyond 10 billion people.
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Re:Larry Page is pouring millions into flying cars
by cooper12 on Friday December 30, 2016 @07:24PM
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> if we want to solve congestion and traffic as our planet grows beyond 10 billion people
These are all symptoms of a badly designed city. What a place like this needs is better infrastructure, especially public infrastructure such as bike lanes, buses, and trains so that a lot of that traffic isn't necessary. Getting more people into cars will only create more problems. All you're doing is moving that traffic and congestion into the sky. If you said we needed an airbus, I'd point you to my friend who is named "airplane".
Re:Larry Page is pouring millions into flying cars
by dimino on Saturday December 31, 2016 @04:22PM
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You don't get to redesign all the cities of the world, and it'd be a mighty impressive feat to move all the traffic to the sky.
There's also a lot more sky up there than there is land down here.