Transport’s innovation problem: Why haven’t flying cars taken off?
Transport’s innovation problem: Why haven’t flying cars taken off?
Flying cars in The Jetsons and Back to the Future, or Star Trek’s spaceships and teleportation, may have captured the imagination decades ago, but most current methods of transport have been around a long time.
So why has there been so little recent innovation in transport? And will the latest batch of proposed driverless cars, levitating trains and electric aircraft actually make a serious breakthrough?
transport, innovation, future of transport
Preston, John
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Waterson, Ben
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August 2015
Preston, John
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Waterson, Ben
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Preston, John and Waterson, Ben
(2015)
Transport’s innovation problem: Why haven’t flying cars taken off?
The Conversation.
Abstract
Flying cars in The Jetsons and Back to the Future, or Star Trek’s spaceships and teleportation, may have captured the imagination decades ago, but most current methods of transport have been around a long time.
So why has there been so little recent innovation in transport? And will the latest batch of proposed driverless cars, levitating trains and electric aircraft actually make a serious breakthrough?
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Published date: August 2015
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transport, innovation, future of transport
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