Explore our other sites
  • jalopnik
  • kotaku
  • quartz
  • theroot
  • theinventory
    pjc-old
    pjc
    pjc-old

    Overlaid on London (Scale is pretty much right, but the actual alignment has to be an educated guess).

    @MWAussie: There you go :) I think it roughly lines up, but it's just a guess!

    @SuperFarNorthGuy: Depending on the scale of the map (I assume it's Greater London, rather than Central London?) two of your locations would appear as practically the same blob. Plus as Flashman said, there are many neighbourhoods in London, and to add to that most of them are busy.

    "We may not be tractor-beaming humans into spaceships yet"

    @CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): Compared with roads, the infrastructure for a flying car could be trivial - assuming a computer is in control. No physical lanes, signs e.t.c. to build and maintain. With the coming availability on non-military safety-critical GPS the paths the vehicles fly along

    @CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): With regard to things going wrong, when making or maintaining a flying car you'd have to put the same processes in place as those of an aeroplane, and have the same levels of robustness and redundancy in it's components and software. If they were made or maintained

    No more fart apps? Someone should tell their director.

    Stick someone with a white t-shirt in every seat, take a picture, replace it with one of those dots, take a picture, and leave it empty, take a picutre. Job done, everything can be composited - in fact you could even make a playable pac-man port out of it.

    Parenting opportunity of the day:

    "Andy morris hit an electrocuted third rail [...]"

    @pjcard: what is wrong with gawkers commenting system today? ffs.

    @pjcard:

    @pjcard: OK, it's the fifth result but gawker's commenting system is having it's daily strop and won't let me edit.

    "Instead I might type "C-h-i" into a future Google product - let's call it Instant Movie Search"