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   Ok... here are the pictures of the thing

   

   Dennis, Aug 24th, 1999 @ 1:44pm

   
   

   Ok... so I clicked on the link and what do I find? No pictures? What do you want me to do? Read?!?!
   Anyway, for people with short attention spans (like me), here's a page with pictures.

   Or, better yet... in the spirit of the web, here's a picture:
   

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   prash, Aug 24th, 1999 @ 2:11pm

   
   

   The sky car could make my commute very managable.

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   Todd, Aug 24th, 1999 @ 2:44pm

   
   

   This article hints at it but NASA has already developed a "highways in the sky" plan in preparation for skycars (think I saw it on Wired or BBC?). Passing would be an issue -- do you just leapfrog somebody (giving them a nice push into, say, a bridge?)?

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   computer controlled

   

   Mike (profile), Aug 24th, 1999 @ 2:57pm

   
   

   Well, I think the article suggested that it would all be computer controlled, which suggests to me that the different cars would be able to communicate easily, and passing and such shouldn't be much of an issue. But, then again, we all know how reliable computers are...

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   Re: computer controlled

   

   mchao, Aug 25th, 1999 @ 3:44pm

   
   

   and speaking of reliability, imagine if we ran skycars on an upgraded version of Windows! yet another niche for my company to enter!
   
   imagine the headlines. whew! ugly
   
   

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