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As for how his Skycar will actually be utilized, he makes it clear that it will be totally automated and not piloted...that would make me nuts (or at least, nuttier)! All that I would get to do, would be to drive it a few miles down the road to the closest heliport....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei5oOEoGl...
http://youtu.be/dlOIz94uVpc
Now picture this: you leave your car at the Tampa train station...pay for an expensive train ticket...get to Orlando 30 minutes sooner...then you are standing in the Orlando train station with no transportation.
How many people would think that this was a good idea? Answer: nobody but the politicians that wanted the pork barrel spending in their districts.
Our Governor (Republican) halted the project, and he gets my admiration for that decision.
By the way, Tampa to Orlando always takes 30 minutes, at 87 MPH. No problem. : )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IJNeq0ij...
he should have let her breath in that one part lol
1.why the white paper? to build interest starting from within the govt
2.why a solution requiring massive infrastructure? lots of govt money and control
3.why not a combo of google cars and aviation?
4.there have been versions of this around for a long time. It is a great PR campaign
and expected from someone who made lots of money off of Tesla, as a govt project through and through