Flying cars, flight delays, and the path to “life and peace”
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🗓️ 13 May 2025
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Summary
The world’s first mass-produced flying car prototype has made its public debut. It transforms from a car to an aircraft in under two minutes and will cost between $800,000 and $1 million. You can buy yours in the first quarter of next year. When we step onto a plane, we abandon all personal agency. We are in the hands of pilots who fly the plane, controllers who direct them, and those who maintain the equipment upon which we risk our lives. There’s a principle here that applies not just to air travel but to every dimension of our lives.
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Tuesday, made the 13th, 2025. |
| 0:06.0 | Welcome to Denison Forum's Daily Article podcast. |
| 0:09.8 | Today's daily article is authored by our co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison, and narrated by Chris Elkins. |
| 0:18.7 | The world's first mass-produced flying car prototype has made its public debut. |
| 0:25.1 | It transforms from a car to an aircraft in under two minutes and will cost between $800,000 |
| 0:31.5 | and $1 million. |
| 0:33.3 | You can buy yours in the first quarter of next year. |
| 0:36.1 | With the way things are going at the nation's |
| 0:38.1 | airports, you may want one. Flights to Newark Liberty International Airport were delayed yesterday by as |
| 0:44.8 | much as seven hours. The airport's problems first made headlines on April the 28th when a |
| 0:50.7 | technical outage caused more than a thousand flights to be canceled or delayed. |
| 0:55.8 | Radios went dead for 30 seconds during the outage, |
| 0:58.9 | giving air traffic controllers no way to tell pilots how to avoid crashing their planes into another. |
| 1:04.9 | More disruptions are expected, causing officials to reduce the number of flights in and out of Newark for the next several weeks. |
| 1:12.0 | In related news, hundreds of flights were delayed Sunday in Atlanta's airport because of a runway equipment issue. |
| 1:19.3 | In recent months, planes have bumped wings in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. |
| 1:24.3 | A number of commercial flights have aborted landings at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport as well. |
| 1:30.5 | Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has announced plans for a new air traffic control system, |
| 1:35.7 | which will take three to four years to build and cost billions. In the meantime, unless we own a |
| 1:42.0 | flying car, those of us who fly will have little choice, |
| 1:45.5 | but to trust people we don't know and never see. |
| 1:48.5 | When we step onto a plane, we abandon all personal agency. |
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