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The Dong-A Ilbo recently published an article confidently predicting that we'll all be commuting around Korea in cars that can, Transformers-like, sprout wings and get you from Pyeongchang to Seoul in 20 minutes. According to the author this will be reality in March of 2031 (so set your watches, kids). Unfortunately the author doesn't really cite to any examples of companies actually making advances on the needed technologies or experts predicting it will happen. Otherwise I might translate it, but it's kind of a fun piece and not difficult to read, so you might find it a fun way to get some Korean practice in.
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I want to write for this fiction paper!
With Korea being number one in the world for most auto crashes and suicides, would it be wise to allow them to fly in the air?
There is video of a company developing what appears to be a flying car at the bottom of the article.
Wait, you're telling me a Korean newspaper is making fantastical claims with little to no factual evidence to back it up? Color me shocked.
Considering how Koreans drive with lanes and turns...
That's going to need a shitload of mirrors!
OK, let's assume that they tackle the technology program. Then let's also assume that somehow a flying car doesn't require the driver to spend a couple years in flight school. Let's further assume that these could somehow be made safe, so fender-benders wouldn't result in two tons of metal falling on pedestrians. Even with all that, privately owned and operated flying cars just aren't feasible in a post-9/11 world.
You think filling up the tank in your 760Li is expensive, wait till you fill one of these up.
Please, please do NOT let this country ever develop that tech. Or any country for that matter. Korea should work on a "car pod grid" or something like that- where people program the car to get onto a track and once on the track the car drives itself to the destination--- and then PARKS ITSELF!!!
video of a jet pack that is about to be marketed right now: http://www.marketwatch.com/video/asset/company-to-sell-jetpacks-2010-03-15/4AAA02F0-7A60-49C1-84A2-F164E8AFD7DB |
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