You people need to put down the crack pipe...

One of my coworkers came into my office a little while ago, all excited about the prospect of flying cars.

To all you people out there who think this is a good idea:

Look at the idiots you share the road with.

An asshole in a Ford Expedition tried to take my front end out this morning by crossing a solid white line, not bothering to use his signal, and being too busy in his self importance to check if anyone was in the lane he was illegally moving into before doing it. I'm supposed to trust this asshole in three dimensions? He can't handle life in two dimensions, and the estimates are that they can produce these things for about the same price as the oversized piece of shit he tried to kill me with this morning.

I'd be all for this, as the potential for mass numbers of idiots to self Darwinate with these things is huge, except for the small problem that they'll be taking out the people on the ground below them as well.

Think people: You're surrounded by crack addled monkeys who can't figure out how to set the clocks on their VCRs and you're going to trust them with things that fly? They haven't figured out how stopping and turning works on cars, and stopping and turning on airborne vehicles makes cars look like they have instantaneous stop times and infinitesimally small turning radii.

We're all going to die when these idiots run out of gas at 200ft. and then free fall on us.

EDIT: I meant to put the link in, and forgot.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/04/15/60minutes/main688454.shtml

You people need to put down the crack pipe...

One of my coworkers came into my office a little while ago, all excited about the prospect of flying cars.

To all you people out there who think this is a good idea:

Look at the idiots you share the road with.

An asshole in a Ford Expedition tried to take my front end out this morning by crossing a solid white line, not bothering to use his signal, and being too busy in his self importance to check if anyone was in the lane he was illegally moving into before doing it. I'm supposed to trust this asshole in three dimensions? He can't handle life in two dimensions, and the estimates are that they can produce these things for about the same price as the oversized piece of shit he tried to kill me with this morning.

I'd be all for this, as the potential for mass numbers of idiots to self Darwinate with these things is huge, except for the small problem that they'll be taking out the people on the ground below them as well.

Think people: You're surrounded by crack addled monkeys who can't figure out how to set the clocks on their VCRs and you're going to trust them with things that fly? They haven't figured out how stopping and turning works on cars, and stopping and turning on airborne vehicles makes cars look like they have instantaneous stop times and infinitesimally small turning radii.

We're all going to die when these idiots run out of gas at 200ft. and then free fall on us.

EDIT: I meant to put the link in, and forgot.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/04/15/60minutes/main688454.shtml

You people need to put down the crack pipe...

One of my coworkers came into my office a little while ago, all excited about the prospect of flying cars.

To all you people out there who think this is a good idea:

Look at the idiots you share the road with.

An asshole in a Ford Expedition tried to take my front end out this morning by crossing a solid white line, not bothering to use his signal, and being too busy in his self importance to check if anyone was in the lane he was illegally moving into before doing it. I'm supposed to trust this asshole in three dimensions? He can't handle life in two dimensions, and the estimates are that they can produce these things for about the same price as the oversized piece of shit he tried to kill me with this morning.

I'd be all for this, as the potential for mass numbers of idiots to self Darwinate with these things is huge, except for the small problem that they'll be taking out the people on the ground below them as well.

Think people: You're surrounded by crack addled monkeys who can't figure out how to set the clocks on their VCRs and you're going to trust them with things that fly? They haven't figured out how stopping and turning works on cars, and stopping and turning on airborne vehicles makes cars look like they have instantaneous stop times and infinitesimally small turning radii.

We're all going to die when these idiots run out of gas at 200ft. and then free fall on us.

EDIT: I meant to put the link in, and forgot.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/04/15/60minutes/main688454.shtml