Whatever happened to the flying car? This is the Transition, a small, $279,000 plane designed to be legally roadworthy. It is only the first of a new breed of flying cars—more than a dozen similar models are in development.
I was just talking with my homeboy last week about how surprising it is that we don’t have flying cars by now. Well, well, well…. I will be purchasing me one!
Beautiful utility
“The United States “is a developing country in terms of rail”
Ansgar Brockmeyer, head of public transit business for Siemens
Siemens Fills Russia’s Need for a High-Speed Train - NYTimes.com
(via fred-wilson)
And why is that?! When I went to Italy, I was so impressed by the European railroad system and infrastructure that I was inspired to build a railroad company to compete with Amtrak. OK, there are obviously high costs to entry as one would have to build out the infrastructure necessary for a company to even begin transactions. So that immediately turns off private investment. The timeline is too long and initial seed so huge that is just doesn’t meet many private, real-time investment criteria. The public sector has the printing press, and, therefore, has the money to build out the infrastructure necessary, in fact, CRITICAL to the development, investments, and widespread use of rail in America. It’s the country enter this exclusive club:
Still, Russia has arrived in the high-speed club that includes Japan, France, Germany, Italy, Britain, Spain, Taiwan, Korea and China, which joined in 2007.
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