@fatpiggy
Dear Mr Piggy
Let me say that I view Elon as on the level of Thomas Edison if not much greater so not taking anything from his intellectual and business acumen. I am the ant and he is the elephant.
So with me properly demoted to the bottom of the totem pole I am impressed at the car and the technology it represents.
HOWEVER it really is like the Wright Brothers flying just a short distance at Kitty Hawk the demonstration represents just a beginning and not the car that can sustain aerial flight for miles.
Was expecting when they said flying car I was thinking of one really sustaining flight for miles.
This car uses compressed gases when are quickly used. Of course there are all the sensors that are needed to stabilize the car rotating and flying and stay stable. That technology is truly a marvel.
But as I said this is very short flight and not yet sustained flight. I will probably not live to see the truly flying car.
I am thinking in my next few years I will see the development of humanoid robots to be used in agriculture to replace the millions of immigrant field workers picking vegetables and fruits.
That will be revolutionary as they will work 24/7 365 regardless of weather without breaks as humans need. A true revolution.
I do have some disappointment in Elon not having focused on a few major human problems like clean water or salt water to potable water conversion, water treatment of sewerage, clean air from air having industrial pollutants, winning the cancer and major health care issues and other nagging human problems.
Not a criticism but an observation and hope Elon will turn his guns on some more problems that are immediate and close to us folks.
Keep posting as when the voices of reason go silent then we are truly lost