Linn, Allison (2004) “Flying Car Would Be Ultimate Tribute” TRIBNET.COM,
8-29, p.1

In the 50’s, auto boats were created or water cars or whatever name you want to use. Thus, with a switch on your dash, your car could become a boat. It worked, but nobody bought. It cost too much and it was easier to rent or own a boat and drive a regular car.

Now in research and design stage are flying cars. This means that you could in the future miss the traffic mess and fly above the other cars on your way home. Inventors have experimented with cars that fly and planes that drive like cars. The second is the most likely.

Again, in the 50’s was the promise that we would all have inexpensive helicopters and be able to fly to our destination. It didn’t happen or has yet to happen.

This flying car would drive on the back streets and fly over traffic. However, there is a problem. It is the drivers. Or, you can call it pilot error. We may have these great devices that should start selling at $100,000 and find that the pilot plows into another plane during heavy traffic. What about the possibility that the planes would go straight in a tail spin into some body’s house? Can you stop these planes from buzzing over an expensive football game or rock concert and then falling into the crowd?

Do you need a pilot’s license? The problem now is to dumb down the machine so that many can drive/fly and the costs can come down due the number of purchases.

I will stick with the car for the moment and hope that the numbers of people who drive/fly are carefully screened.