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Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 21:08:08 EDT
Subject: flying cars and flying pigs

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>I suspect very few people ever worked on the
flying car.

  Please look up the Ford Convertiplane from 1972. Thare are no flying cars 
because of FAA refusal to certify ANY design that would be produced in large 
numbers (Ford was going to start with 50,000) and overwhelm the antiquated 
ATC system.
  Your point about AI is well taken, however. We will probably get AI before 
flying cars. Given progress in my field, we will probably get flying pigs 
before flying cars. (But they will be banned for human consumption by the 
EU.)

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