# the Jetsons = real life
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-jetsons-real-life/17977
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [September 25, 2006, 9:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-jetsons-real-life/17977 "2006-09-25T09:32:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2006, 9:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-jetsons-real-life/17977/1 "2006-09-25T09:32:04Z")
[http://www.moller.com/](http://www.moller.com/)
pretty cool :tup: I’m sure a long way off yet, but it would be nice to see it in our lifetimes (then again, I’m sure most of our grandparents at our age didnt expect to see streets crowded with cars like they are now either)
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### Author:  [@j\_espo1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/j_espo1)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2006, 9:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-jetsons-real-life/17977/2 "2006-09-25T09:41:00Z")
I sent a $10,000 deposit. I should be the first one in WNY to have one.
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### Author:  [@sureshot007](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/sureshot007)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2006, 9:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-jetsons-real-life/17977/3 "2006-09-25T09:42:06Z")
Moller has been working on these since the 80’s. They look like they are missing something imporant for flight…oh yeah, wings…
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### Author:  [@DrDoS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/DrDoS)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2006, 9:45am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-jetsons-real-life/17977/4 "2006-09-25T09:45:19Z")
is it real?
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### Author:  [@ILCisDEAD](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ILCisDEAD)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2006, 9:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-jetsons-real-life/17977/5 "2006-09-25T09:57:05Z")
yes its real… its been around the news for a while now… its just too expensive at the current time to make a difference, also i think there is a good size battle with the FAA to get this thing in the air
oh yea… and its worthless for anything under 200 miles… WAY too expensive
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### Author:  [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2006, 9:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-jetsons-real-life/17977/6 "2006-09-25T09:58:23Z")
Apparently the Dod has one of these from Moller (unmanned) for testing and such
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### Author:  [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2006, 9:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-jetsons-real-life/17977/7 "2006-09-25T09:59:33Z")
yeah. let’s give another 3 degrees of freedom to people who are having trouble coping with the 2 that a car already has…
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### Author:  [@LAFENGAS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LAFENGAS)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2006, 10:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-jetsons-real-life/17977/8 "2006-09-25T10:44:26Z")
> [@sureshot007](#):
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> Moller has been working on these since the 80’s. They look like they are missing something imporant for flight…oh yeah, wings…
propulsion systems don’t need wings.
some of this stuff is pretty cool. I had a chance to sit down and talk with the designer of the jet belt this past weekend. A lot of interesting things already exist, but need military funtionality to ever get enough funding for it to put it into production
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### Author:  [@n20junkie](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/n20junkie)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2006, 10:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-jetsons-real-life/17977/9 "2006-09-25T10:47:02Z")
Moller is a joke in the aviation community. He has been touting this car for 25+ years, with only tethered flights, and empy promises. If you want to commute to work, buy aRotorway helicopter, its cheaper than his contraption by about $940,000.
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### Author:  [@Bacon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bacon)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2006, 10:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-jetsons-real-life/17977/10 "2006-09-25T10:47:04Z")
> [@newman](#):
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> yeah. let’s give another 3 degrees of freedom to people who are having trouble coping with the 2 that a car already has…
:word:
There is no way the average driver out there could handle this. Hell most of them can’t even figure out what a power button does, so that would throw a computer completely out the window for controlling it.
EDIT: Would also bring a whole new dimension to the term breakdown. :lol:
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### Author:  [@ILCisDEAD](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ILCisDEAD)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2006, 11:08am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-jetsons-real-life/17977/11 "2006-09-25T11:08:34Z")
> [@FuzzyFish](#):
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> EDIT: Would also bring a whole new dimension to the term breakdown. :lol:
lol people actually having to inspect their cars before they drove to work … yea right
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### Author:  [@The\_Russian](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/The_Russian)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2006, 11:14am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-jetsons-real-life/17977/12 "2006-09-25T11:14:25Z")
but i want a flying escalade like in the GM commercial and i want it now
WaHHHHHHHHH
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### Author:  [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2006, 11:25am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-jetsons-real-life/17977/13 "2006-09-25T11:25:22Z")
The whole idea of the Moller is that YOU wouldn’t fly it so much as ride in it. You get in, punch in a destination, and the computer flys you there via virtual highways in the sky.
The day is coming, probably in our lifetimes. The flying cars will have much more complex versions of our OBD2 systems, monitoring everything from the airframe to the engine, and unlike our idiot light that we can simply ignore until the car dies I’m sure these new systems simply will not allow the car to move if a serious fault is detected. Will they replace the car in our lifetime? I doubt it. But I’d be willing to bet that in the next 50 years rich people will be able to walk out to their car/plane and fly to their destination by simply keying in the address.
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### Author:  [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2006, 11:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-jetsons-real-life/17977/14 "2006-09-25T11:51:43Z")
[http://www.moller.com/news/media/](http://www.moller.com/news/media/)
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### Author:  [@BluBalls](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BluBalls)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2006, 12:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-jetsons-real-life/17977/15 "2006-09-25T12:46:45Z")
> [@LAFENGAS](#):
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> propulsion systems don’t need wings.
I agree… thats why the plane will take off from the treadmill.