Metroplis mobilized by air?

"Michael Nouak" wrote in message ...
Well, it doesn't sound appealing to me either, but unfortunately appeal has
nothing to do with it when it comes to millions (!) of people flittering
hither and thither in their own personal craft in a major metropolitan area.

This is currently how we do it with cars. No autopilot.

Getting people safely from point A to point B has.

Cars aren't terribly safe, but are very popular.

Actually, I think personal appeal has the biggest part of the success
formula for "plans" like this. If people just plain don't like it,
they won't use it.

I think that's why mass transit is such a failure almost everywhere,
even though it's safer and hugely more efficient - arguably, "better".
People just like having the little bit of control they get driving
their cars. Sometimes it's the only control they get on any given
day.

Telling people, "It'll be great, just push the button, and sit back
and relax" generally is a recipe for failure.

"Michael Nouak" wrote in message ...
"Brien K. Meehan" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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All aircraft controlled
electronicaly by an advanced type of autopilot. All you have to do is
type in your destination and the aircraft takes off ...

Why is this "autopilot" feature an obligatory part of this fantasy
every single time a variation of it comes up? That doesn't sound
appealing to me at all.

Well, it doesn't sound appealing to me either, but unfortunately appeal has
nothing to do with it when it comes to millions (!) of people flittering
hither and thither in their own personal craft in a major metropolitan area.
Getting people safely from point A to point B has.

Mike



YES, this is very true. The skies would become blackened with so many
personal flying automobiles.

Ever seen some of those new Star wars movies where the whole planet is
one big city? Everyone gets around in thier own little flying autos
and they all follow some kind of path through the skies? From above
you see freeways high in the sky crisscrossing each other overlapping
perfectly to make a type of GRID pattern.

And that would be the way of the future because obviously the building
and maintainance of multiple superhighways within one state alone
becomes prohibitively expensive. And the newer metroplitan areas
won't have any ground freeways at all. The big rigs will also take to
the skies and they will have their own dedicated lanes. Not to
mention that the new automobiles in historic cities would never touch
the ground if they are using ground roads. They simply hover over it
about 1 foot leaving the ground unmolested. Cars with wheels would
only be expensive toys for rich people who can afford to locate
gasoline for them. A type of ancient fuel that in no longer being
refined in large quantities. You have to refine it yourself if you
own or know someone who owns an oil well.

In California the corrupt politicians can barely keep up with the
maintainance of it's freeways. How much more in places like Detroit
and the Twin cities where roads need to be repaved each year from the
salt? There is a saying there that Minneapolis has only two seasons
-- Winter and road reconstruction. I'm surprised that major
metropolitan areas up north can survive at all with all of those extra
costs. I guess it's just because those northern states aren't
overburdened with millions of illegal aliens and failing school
systems.

Sounds like a nice future doesn't it?

"Brien K. Meehan" wrote:

If people just plain don't like it, they won't use it.

Yep. If most New Jersey drivers can't figure out a way to cut other people off,
they won't go.

George Patterson
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