Personal Blimps. Flying cars. (Lighter than air VTOL computerized self-parking flying cars, that is.) Luxury dirigible intercontinental travel. Michael Anissimov has all the details. More thoughts on L2si.

Since we haven’t met our usual quota of “Flying Car” posts in, oh, at least a month, I thought it would be appropriate to point out the latest on the subject detailed in this article over on Gizmag (“The Terrafugia Transition – is this the first viable flying car?” July 26th, 2006). Throwing their hat […]

Sure, this car looks kind of cool… …but what a gas guzzler. It would take eight litres of fuel (premium, no doubt) to drive it once around the world. Sheesh! Roland Piquepaille has the details. Meanwhile, Glenn Reynolds is linking to information on the more modest Tesla Roadster. He says he’d be willing to take […]

Adopting any replacement fuel source for internal combustion engines requires solving a number of problems. With electric cars the problems are: Range. Expense of the batteries Frequency of replacing batteries Environmental impact of battery disposal Lack of infrastructure (gas stations are not presently recharging stations) Time required to recharge. The danger of electric discharge after […]

Engadget has the scoop on prototype stackable cars: The Smart Cities team at MIT is tackling the problem of city traffic congestion — still left untouched by the Segway — with a “stackable” car to be used as part of a public transportation program, much like those bicycle-sharing programs in Europe, and stowed like a […]

Engadget has the scoop on prototype stackable cars: The Smart Cities team at MIT is tackling the problem of city traffic congestion — still left untouched by the Segway — with a “stackable” car to be used as part of a public transportation program, much like those bicycle-sharing programs in Europe, and stowed like a […]