Technology can be great or it can cause problems. If it helps people and the world it’s great and if sets us back it may be problematic at best.

Let’s look at cars in this context.

The invention of the wheel is hard to improve on and we already have a national highway system and community roads in place. Unfortunately, little thought was given to growth of cities, suburbs, vacation travel, job commuting or just the sheer number of cars that are in use today. Traffic congestion is almost everywhere and it has become a major problem for populated areas, as well as freeways that have to handle cars and a huge increase in goods that need to be shipped in trucks.

Many roads are being widened to handle today’s traffic load, but once again, are we looking far enough ahead? Widening roads is not easy to accomplish and especially in older cities it may be impossible due to existing infrastructure and just plain lack of space for an extra lane or exit ramp.

People stuck in traffic want solutions, but are there any? Many times that I have been in bumper-to-bumper traffic I wished I could just push a button, levitate my car and fly away. I would take the shortest route home just as the crow flies. Just like the Jetsons! Wow, life in the future is going to be great when we have flying cars!

But there will never be flying cars for the general population. We can’t allow it.

When you see a large group of birds in a field suddenly take off in flight they are in perfect synchronization with each other. There are no collisions among the birds. How do they do it? I’m not sure if anyone knows. But until we figure that little trick out, can you imagine every car in the world lifting off the ground, flying up in the sky, heading in all different directions? It would be CHAOS!