Think about it: cars hurtle towards each other in very narrow channels on the surface. When you add the third dimension, it's a lot easier to have plenty of space around all vehicles, as well as much shorter transit times (and shorter routes).
Traffic control for aerial vehicles can be done on a peer-to-peer basis with no central management at all. Roads are horrendously expensive, at $7 million per mile in rural areas, and $11 million per mile in urban areas for six-lane highways.
What makes air cars feasible is going fully robotic.
The economics of point-to-point VTOL travel make a lot more sense when you factor in the lives lost every day in car crashes, and what we spend on building roads.
What I see in the near future for this technology is surface roads becoming two lane tracks for heavy cargo only, and people using a mix of short-range VTOL for local trips and conventional aircraft for long trips. We'll be able to reduce the urban heat-island effect by having far less paved surface area, and our personal transportation will even take less energy since we could go point-to-point along minimal distance routes.
Keep in mind, Hillary isn't a diplomat. She had the Department of State tossed to her as a consolation prize to shut her idiot fans up. She has no negotiation skills, and waltzing into a meeting with the Norks with her usual "Qbey me, you fucking peasants!" attitude would be worse than doing fuck-all.
The courts in the USA can declare someone a vexatious litigant, too. Not sure who has to bring the action to do so, but once someone has been declared such, they have to get a judge's permission to file any suit from that point on.
Not sure I want to be an investor, but as a customer, I'm entirely satisfied. I switch from AT&T when I got my latest iPhone, I'm spending $30 less per month for unlimited data (had one of the original grandfathered unlimited data plans from AT&T), service in Canada and Mexico is included, and I'm seeing LTE speeds between 70 and 90 Mbps.
Got started in sixth grade by typing in BASIC games from David Ahl's book, taught myself Pascal, Fortran, and FORTH from books, taught myself 6502 assembly from Adam Osborne's books, got a job writing in TAL (Tandem's proprietary language, very similar to Pascal), then got a different job working in C, where I had the good fortune to be in an office between two expert C programmers (one of whom later sat on the ANSI committee that standardized the language). Got better at it by working with the smartest people I could find.
Ask around the office there, Special Agent Barney Fife. (Oh, there might be a taboo about talking about it, like mentioning J. Edgar Hoover's attempt to get MLK to kill himself.)
Millions of illegal wiretaps, witness intimidation, obstruction of justice, death threats, and don't forget that they fronted the money to build the truck bomb used in the first world trade center attack.
The FBI is a criminal organization, and it has been ever since Hoover was prancing around in his dresses back in the 1920s.
Wow, I just got dissed by an AC! That totally changes my mind about Oracle, despite knowing that Apple had to implement poll() to make it run on Mac OS X.
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Besides the obvious violations of the fourth and fifth amendments, the pigs who use this are fraudulently charging their victim's account.
-jcr
Aw, don't get all butthurt just because I won't pretend that Hillary is a competent diplomat.
-jcr
Think about it: cars hurtle towards each other in very narrow channels on the surface. When you add the third dimension, it's a lot easier to have plenty of space around all vehicles, as well as much shorter transit times (and shorter routes).
Traffic control for aerial vehicles can be done on a peer-to-peer basis with no central management at all. Roads are horrendously expensive, at $7 million per mile in rural areas, and $11 million per mile in urban areas for six-lane highways.
What makes air cars feasible is going fully robotic.
-jcr
Around the same time, there was a company in the DC area called "Software Express VideoTex", which was basically a dial-up app store.
It's not just prior art, it's ridiculously obvious that software can be sold over a network connection. The patent should never have been issued.
-jcr
The economics of point-to-point VTOL travel make a lot more sense when you factor in the lives lost every day in car crashes, and what we spend on building roads.
What I see in the near future for this technology is surface roads becoming two lane tracks for heavy cargo only, and people using a mix of short-range VTOL for local trips and conventional aircraft for long trips. We'll be able to reduce the urban heat-island effect by having far less paved surface area, and our personal transportation will even take less energy since we could go point-to-point along minimal distance routes.
-jcr
Quick, convenient point-to-point transportation that's not subject to traffic jams? You're totally right, nobody wants that.
-jcr
Keep in mind, Hillary isn't a diplomat. She had the Department of State tossed to her as a consolation prize to shut her idiot fans up. She has no negotiation skills, and waltzing into a meeting with the Norks with her usual "Qbey me, you fucking peasants!" attitude would be worse than doing fuck-all.
-jcr
I do that so that someday you'll drop dead from an extreme fit of pique.
-jcr
The exploits' code is based on the Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight browser plugins
So don't run crapware in your browser, and you're all set.
-jcr
The courts in the USA can declare someone a vexatious litigant, too. Not sure who has to bring the action to do so, but once someone has been declared such, they have to get a judge's permission to file any suit from that point on.
-jcr
Not sure I want to be an investor, but as a customer, I'm entirely satisfied. I switch from AT&T when I got my latest iPhone, I'm spending $30 less per month for unlimited data (had one of the original grandfathered unlimited data plans from AT&T), service in Canada and Mexico is included, and I'm seeing LTE speeds between 70 and 90 Mbps.
-jcr
If you pay people to do fuck-all, then a lot of them are going to do exactly that.
-jcr
Ooh, I like that.
-jcr
"Storied career"? Are you serious?
There are a lot of far better coders on /. than me. I'm right in the middle of the bell curve.
-jcr
Got started in sixth grade by typing in BASIC games from David Ahl's book, taught myself Pascal, Fortran, and FORTH from books, taught myself 6502 assembly from Adam Osborne's books, got a job writing in TAL (Tandem's proprietary language, very similar to Pascal), then got a different job working in C, where I had the good fortune to be in an office between two expert C programmers (one of whom later sat on the ANSI committee that standardized the language). Got better at it by working with the smartest people I could find.
-jcr
Ask around the office there, Special Agent Barney Fife. (Oh, there might be a taboo about talking about it, like mentioning J. Edgar Hoover's attempt to get MLK to kill himself.)
-jcr
The greasy little scumbag took the coward's way out. "Master race", my ass.
-jcr
Bingo.
How very half-assed of them.
-jcr
Any car maker who trusts Microsoft's code to control a car is looking at nine-figure payouts.
-jcr
I guess his contractual obligation is now fulfilled.
-jcr
I see they're scraping the bottom of the barrel for their internet trolls these days.
Now run along, you pathetic little propaganda operative.
-jcr
More importantly, what crimes?
Millions of illegal wiretaps, witness intimidation, obstruction of justice, death threats, and don't forget that they fronted the money to build the truck bomb used in the first world trade center attack.
The FBI is a criminal organization, and it has been ever since Hoover was prancing around in his dresses back in the 1920s.
-jcr
Only a leftard is stupid enough to confuse libertarianism with fascism.
-jcr
Too bad it is not him that will be making that decision.
As it happens, he has made that decision on quite a few projects since then.
-jcr
Wow, I just got dissed by an AC! That totally changes my mind about Oracle, despite knowing that Apple had to implement poll() to make it run on Mac OS X.
-jcr