I know flying cars are old hat at this point, but people do keep bringing them up at the Futurist Club, and I can see why. We’ve been promised them for decades, and yet car manufacturers don’t seem all that interested in making it happen. Oh, it’s so much more efficient to just drive on roads, cause congestion, have to pay for tires and road maintenance and generally just travel in inefficient zig-zags instead of how the crow flies.
Alright, maybe the long wait has made me a little bit jaded as well. Just the other day I had to find a good place for brake replacement near Ringwood, and I started to think about marching in there and demanding an explanation. Where are our flying cars? Why is no one getting on this? How are we still going in for regular car servicing, instead of services for cars that fly!? We wouldn’t even need brake replacement, because there wouldn’t be any wheels. We’d stop in mid-air by many of the same processes that flying objects right now do: namely, ionic thrusters. You wouldn’t leave the ground without them.
So you’d be looking for a place in Melbourne for some quality car repairs and services, but not that; more like you need someone to fix your reverse ionic thrusters (that’s like brake repair) or tighten up your perambulation boosters (bit like clearing out the exhaust and changing the oil) or maybe giving a quick service to your space-time traversing recordinator. I mean, I don’t even have to explain how that’s referring to a similar concept to log book servicing. Ringwood has always been a little bit ahead of its time, so I feel like the place will be transformed soon. All of us in the club hope so. I just really hope it’s soon, so I can be free from sitting in traffic every morning for forty minutes, breathing in fumes and wishing I could be soaring through the sky…
-Magellan