r/BeAmazed • u/Master_Support • 16d ago

History This is Wild..!!

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u/DeflatedDirigible 16d ago

The Jetsons takes place in 2062. George Jetson was born in 2022. Flying cars are coming soon!

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u/chalkles0329 16d ago

That's what we thought about hoverboards after Back to the Future, and they still haven't gotten off the ground...

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u/fillmebarry 16d ago

Those jetski attachments look cool though, let's be honest. We've also gotten ironman-esque jetpack systems and green goblin-esque drone boards.

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u/TranslateErr0r 16d ago

Put me on a skateboard and it will fly through the air in no time. For a short time. So you just need a lot of clones of me I guess.

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u/tilt-a-whirly-gig 16d ago

I see what you did there.

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u/Iwillnotbeokay 16d ago

This is the kind of optimism I like! Flying cars would be so rad.

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u/illocor_B 16d ago

They’ll never happen. Not with the public walking underneath anywhere that traffic goes to, such as schools, retail, churches and everything else. The possibility of crashes/failures happening and now you have vehicles plummeting to the earth will cause no flying cars. Nobody would insure anything.

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u/tilt-a-whirly-gig 16d ago

They’ll never happen. Not with the public walking adjacent to anywhere that traffic goes to, such as sidewalks in front of schools, sidewalks in front of retail, sidewalks in front of churches and everything else. The possibility of crashes/failures happening and now you have vehicles crashing into sidewalks will cause no cars. Nobody would insure anything.

~somebody a long time ago

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I see what you're saying, but I don't think that's what'll stop them ... sorry about the snark, but I felt the parallel needed to be drawn somehow and this way amused me

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u/Fine_Cap402 16d ago

People can barely operate transportation devices in two dimensions and you want to add a third?

Good luck with that.

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u/Teauxny 16d ago

In other words more income inequality where the rich Sky People can raise the levels of their expansive apartment buildings so they don't have to hear the poors rioting below.

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u/thatstwatshesays 16d ago

If cars could morph into a freaking briefcase upon arrival at the destination, the world would be a better place. Think, all those stupid parking lot fights just…..poof….. gone.