It's A Bird! It's A Plane! It's A....FLYING TAXI?!

Wow in the World

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Education, Stories For Kids, Education For Kids, Kids & Family

4.6 • 29.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2017

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Where in the world will we see the first flying taxis? What in the world will they look like? Who in the world will operate them? Join Guy Raz and Mindy Thomas for the Who, What, When, Where, Why, How and WOW on the world's first flying taxi cabs! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:36.7	Hey, Mindy, did you remember that show, The Jetsons?
0:47.8	Oh yeah, I know The Jetsons. It was that cartoon from the past that took place in the
0:51.6	future and basically predicted most of what we have today.
0:55.2	Right, you remember me, George Jetsons?
0:57.2	And Mindy, for kids who haven't heard of it, The Jetsons was a cartoon that a lot of your
1:10.3	parents probably watched. It was about a family living in the future. They had a robot
1:16.1	made.
1:16.1	Oh, Rosie!
1:18.1	And the coolest thing they had, Mindy, a dog treadmill.
1:22.2	Uh, no, that is not the flying car.
1:26.1	Yup, and Mindy, back when The Jetsons was on TV, a lot of people thought that by the year
1:31.8	2017, we'd all be flying to work and to school in our flying cars, but alas!
1:38.8	We're still stuck here and traffic on the ground because…
1:44.2	I don't even know why.
1:46.0	Because it would be pretty dangerous, right? I mean, could you imagine flying cars flying
1:51.6	all around all over the place? I mean, that would not be safe, right?
1:55.3	No, it would definitely not be safe.
1:57.9	It would be awesome! I mean, just imagine a guy Ross, no speed limits, no red lights,
2:05.8	no stop signs, people could just quiet around like maniacs, the unfriety wild guys.
2:12.9	Oh, yup. And so the dream of flying cars was really just that a dream.
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