<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Passengers might shoot back!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">do we need new laws about dropping anvils on houses?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">-g</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 2:29 PM Pete Soper via TriEmbed <<a href="mailto:triembed@triembed.org">triembed@triembed.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>I heard they're being careful to ensure the flying cars don't
look like drones in case somebody has a shot gun. :-)</p>
<p>-Pete<br>
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<div class="gmail-m_1110124144216988372moz-cite-prefix">On 3/27/19 2:25 PM, Gregg Tracton via
TriEmbed wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Flying cars DO exist.
Not only is New Zealand starting a bulk taxi service over</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">the mountains, but at
least 6 other vendors have them in the pipelines,</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">with 3 for sale right
now.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">One vendor has a
runway/car version for sale now (flies, plus wings fold back</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">to make it street
legal, uses car gas),</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">and is developing a
VTOL (vertical takeoff/landing) due out in about a year.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">TODAY: you can ride 30
miles for ~$250 in many large cities.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Although that's out of
most budgets, it's perfect for executives,</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">emergencies
(transplant organs), and tourists, and competes with heli
costs.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">The amazing thing
about many of these is that most are fully- or semi-automated,</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">that is, only 3 hours
to learn to fly some; 0 hours of training in others</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">(awaiting FAA
clearance).</div>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Gregg Tracton: tired, retired & mostly unattired (PJ's)</div></div>