This morning Wired published an article entitled Flying Car, we (the U.S.) where it was announced that the U.S. authorities have approved the free movement of Transition , one of cars produced by American flying Terrafugia . I think I read enthusiastic reports on this project at least 10 years ago - correct me if I'm wrong - and now, as then, I just can not feel any enthusiasm for a product so blatantly far from the idea of ​​flying car that decades of science fiction we have used .

Apart from the price not really popular - which hardly allow the Transition to take off, at least in terms of sales - one that leaves me more puzzled is the overall feeling of awkwardness that this project forward. The very idea of having to go around the streets of a big city with two long wings folded I think flies right heavily with the main purpose for which these aircraft should be designed, namely to give us all a chance to free ourselves from all the fly those countless everyday obstacles that make it impossible for our roads. But here we are quite far away from the objective: to make the flight, the Transition requires a runway of 520 meters, which suggests that the device can take off and land only in areas dedicated to the ultralight flying - but at this point why not get these areas easily by car and then take off with a conventional airplane, much less promiscuous and more tested?

Wired in mind the whole issue in glowing terms, but I think it's because we are in summer and there are no big news around. Sure see a break in this way the most fascinating myths of our imagination is not very summer. No wonder that Wired ads equally enthusiastic tone early with the production of a new range of elevators guise of teleportation. D'oh!