Every time I see a Science Fiction movie that contains flying cars I wonder to myself if society will ever allow technology to surpass the level of common sense. Then as I think a little more about it I realize that we're getting closer and closer to that threshold. So it is very likely that in the very near future we will have cars flying - and crashing - in the sky!Now that's a horrifying thought, isn't it? Somehow we allow perhaps millions of people that can't figure out how to operate a simple toaster behind the wheels of thousands of pounds of welded metal, and allow them to hurl themselves at deadly speeds down the highways of America with cellphones in-hand. Now imagine those same non-toaster operating cellphone junkies hurling themselves at deadly speeds in the air!Kinda' makes you want to re-think the whole flying car thing, doesn't it?I mean, just imagine: Your tooting along through the troposphere in your late model 2020 Dodge Albatross (Flying cars will have to be named after birds, you just know it) and along comes a ditsty blonde teenager talking on her cellphone and T-bones you from the right-hand side. Bad enough that your $500k "flying tennis shoe" gets nailed, and now you're looking at thousands of dollars in repair work and increased insurance rates? Nope. The very next thing you have to worry about is how your going to survive the 6 mile fall back to earth! And if, by chance, you happen to pull on the ejection lever and it actually works, and you float gently back to earth, your car is going to be completely toast.Hey, maybe ditsy blonde teenage cellphone junkies know how to make toast after all!Hopefully we can concentrate on safer, more fuel efficient and environmentally friendly means of transportation before we go poking our heads around the clouds, looking for buildings to crash into.
