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From Kyodo, who captioned the image “flying vehicle” but headlined the article with “flying car”

“I look forward to flying cars becoming a normal means of transportation.” (Gov. Koike)

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2024/05/5d7888e5eb47-flying-car-makes-tokyo-debut-at-international-tech-event.html#google_vignette

“Normal means” for whom, exactly? I can’t imagine the average worker in Tokyo will be able to afford this thing. Even if they had a physical space to store in.

And, you know, I think I’ve seen a “flying vehicle” like this somewhere already… 🚁

(FWIW it was part of a conference on technology and sustainability, cheekily called “SuShi High Tech”: https://sushitech-startup.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/en/)

large “Three little children who were playing on the sidewalk near 118th Street and Seventh Avenue Tuesday afternoon jokingly shouted to two women riding in a ten-year-old automobile, ‘Get a horse! Get a horse!’

“A few seconds later they were frantically scrambling from the path of the old machine as apparently out of control, it plunged across the street toward them like a juggernaut.”

“There was a moment of silence and then from the front of the car…came the screams of a child.” Continue Reading

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