First Episode of Reason.TV

I was watching the fist episode of Reason.TV which is related to the Reason magazine. I have never subscribed to the magazine but I have looked at it from time to time. The first show was about Gridlock Hell on wheels. You can view it here

After watching it I got to thinking what would be another way to reduce traffic. How about the flying cars that I have been hearing about my ENTIRE life. Also I know one major reason why we do not have flying cars is the FAA would not allow that. Now if we did have flying cars what would be some of the benefits??? I would bet more land would become available because if everyone with a personal car was flying around and the roads would not need to be so wide a 8 lane highway probably could be cut down to 4 lanes if not 2 lanes since the only traffic would be the transportation of large items like delivery trucks and other things that would not be economical to fly around. So less roads would mean that less money would be needed to keep the roads running, which would mean that you would have to pay less taxes since taxes currently fund the roads. If you we used flying cars you would not have traffic jams except maybe to land if a lot of people were landing at the place but that would be very extreme since people could land from 4 directions at one time. Another benefit would be the time everyone would save. In the show Drew used one persons commute that was 16 miles and took 1 1/2 hours now lets say he earns $30 an hour which being a graphic artist I would not be surprised if it was more. So that daily commute cost him $90 a day which lets say he works 261 days a year and comes out to be $23,490 a year just for this one person. That is all lost productivity for one person. With that extra time people would be more efficient.

I think with more free time people would become more creative and with the creativity someone could invent the next great life changing invention, or paint a great masterpiece, write a great song, or look at a problem and figure out a cure for cancer, or just something simple like a father watching his son hit a home run at a little league game.

With all these benefits what is stopping this the FAA, yes the government is because some moron that thinks he or she has power does not want to give up that control.