This is why we don’t have flying cars.

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Did you know that Henry Ford wanted to make a flying car? And he came very close to doing it, too. This video tells the story of how flying cars almost became a thing, as well as other technologies we really thought we’d have by now. Why didn’t they work? And will they ever work? Let’s take a look.

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LINKS LINKS LINKS
https://scrippsnews.com/stories/the-history-of-our-pursuit-of-a-flying-car/
https://www.britannica.com/technology/ornithopter
http://pages.erau.edu/~andrewsa/sci_fi_projects_spring_2015/Project_2/Eilts_Mitchell/Dune Eilts/Dune Eilts/index_Eilts.html (vid of a real attempt)
https://www.ctie.monash.edu/hargrave/le_bris.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abbiyOW0hOU
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/?p=42097
https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital-collections/artifact/411442/
https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital-collections/artifact/221967/#slide=gs-322610
https://books.google.com/books?id=bygDAAAAMBAJ&dq=Popular+Science+1932+plane&pg=PA32#v=onepage&q=Popular Science 1932 plane&f=false
https://auto.howstuffworks.com/flying-car2.htm
https://www.thedrive.com/news/43549/the-tragic-story-of-the-flying-ford-pinto-ended-exactly-how-youd-expect
https://www.jobyaviation.com
https://www.powernationtv.com/post/this-flying-car-is-cleared-for-takeoff
https://www.uber.com/us/en/elevate/
https://www.iotworldtoday.com/flying-vehicles/flying-taxi-company-moving-to-production-final-testing-next-#close-modal
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1246890/vehicles-use-united-states-historical/
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/nasa-annual-budget
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cost-space-launches-low-earth-orbit
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https://www.cnet.com/pictures/nasas-1975-vision-of-space-colonization-pictures/8
https://www.nasa.gov/history/nasa-long-range-plan-1959/
https://www.spaceline.org/united-states-manned-space-flight/space-shuttle-program-history/
https://www.blueorigin.com/news/blue-origin-debuts-new-glenn-on-our-launch-pad
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vactrain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_railway
https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1991/eirv18n42-19911101/eirv18n42-19911101_034-robert_h_goddards_high_speed_bet.pdf
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/starcross-engine-house-and-brunels-atmospheric-railway
https://businesstech.co.za/news/technology/185313/meet-the-flying-train-concept-30-years-before-elon-musk-made-it-a-reality/
https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/21/24011448/hyperloop-one-shut-down-layoff-closing-elon-musk
https://www.technologyreview.com/2016/05/10/159479/the-unbelievable-reality-of-the-impossible-hyperloop/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swissmetro
https://www.worldwidecancerresearch.org/news-opinion/2021/march/why-havent-we-cured-cancer-yet/

TIMESTAMPS
0:00 – The Art of Prediction
1:50 – Flying Cars
6:47 – More Flying Cars
9:14 – Space Habitats
12:54 – Vactube Travel
17:31 – Cancer Cures
21:26 – Sponsor – Factor

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