Former Google engineer Levandowski was working with Larry Page on flying cars

Flying cars, like hyperloop/boring company and the like, seem to me like flashy stabs at implementing an attractive but ultimately less useful solution to a real problem.

Flying cars, unless they can compete on speed and distance with commercial aircraft, only address issues of traffic and congestion in my mind. And if that's the case, I think there are easier doors to push on with respect to fixing the grid.

To his credit, Levandowski seems like a tremendous mind on this topic. It's too bad that his legacy is most probably going to be tied to the Uber/Google fracas.

Why would anyone want ubiquitous flying cars?

Look up. Imagine that instead of seeing the sky, all you see is the undercarriage of loud flying cars with people flicking cigarettes, fast food packaging or vomiting out of their windows. Imagine a traffic jam, which would rob us peon pedestrians a view of the sky.

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