Reply to post: Re: WTF??

Boeing slams $2m on the desk, bellows: Now where's my jetpack?

veti Silver badge

Re: WTF??

If cars were newly invented today - you and I would never get to drive one.

You'd have to show that you'd completed not only your mandatory training plus X hours of on-road experience, but also sit exams in mechanical theory, legal liability and queuing theory. You'd have to show that you had a safe parking space, and that you knew what routes you planned to take everywhere. Then you'd have to maintain a log of your travel, prove that you'd driven at least 100 hours a year, and re-take the exams every 3 years.

Fortunately (?), cars were grandfathered in from a simpler time. But jetpacks would face all this and more.

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