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Speaker 1: Oh, well, it's about time. I grew up thinking by

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Speaker 2: Oh, we were totally sold on that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought we'd have jet packs, flying cars, people

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Speaker 3: the eighties when I was a kid, that was kind

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Speaker 2: Sounds so futuristic, doesn't it.

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Speaker 3: Well, absolent flying cars, Yeah, yeah, it sounded futuristic forty

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Speaker 3: years ago, and here we are forty years later and

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Speaker 3: still don't have them yet.

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Speaker 1: Although a Japanese company has developed a flying car prototype

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Speaker 1: and it made its demonstration flight over Tokyo, which is

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Speaker 1: I guess you could say the first step forward to

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Speaker 2: You know what, It reminds me of, what's that.

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Speaker 3: Good?

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Speaker 2: Yes, we thought that we'd have this by now. She

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Speaker 2: went to Orban High school. Give me money, Yeah, give

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Speaker 2: me money. I don't know if you remember.

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Speaker 1: They all go in these little capsules and then they're

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Speaker 1: to where they're gonna go. And Jane always did her

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I love that show when I was a kid. It's

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Speaker 3: exactly what you're talking about. This is what we were

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Speaker 3: fed as children. Hey, when you're become an adult, you're

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Speaker 3: gonna have flying cars. Oh and by the way, you're

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Speaker 3: gonna have Rosie the robot as your mate. We're actually

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Speaker 3: a lot closer to Rosie the Robot than we are

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Speaker 2: Right, yeah you are?

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Speaker 1: Okay, So uh, I'm a little nervous about this because

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Speaker 1: half the time people can't even drive on the road.

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Speaker 2: What's gonna happen when they're up in the air? Are

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Speaker 2: these going to.

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Speaker 1: Be self driving? Are you gonna have pilots? Is this

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Speaker 1: going to create a whole new economy structure, a whole

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Speaker 1: new market for taxis, self driving flying taxis? Are you

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Speaker 1: going to need pilots for this? What is going on? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Well, okay, let's settle down here a little bit, so

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Speaker 3: let's talk about what this really was. This was essentially

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Speaker 3: flying car. The demonstration that happened in Tokyo. Calling it

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Speaker 3: was essentially an unmanned drone. There was nobody in the

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Speaker 3: this test. And this company, as Japan is talking about

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Speaker 3: maybe having a consumer product ready for twenty twenty eight

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Speaker 3: a stretch because of all the things you just talked about. Okay,

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Speaker 3: so now what somebody's gonna need a pilot license for this.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna have traffic jams in the sky. Can you

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Speaker 2: Who has the right of way? Is it just like roads?

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Speaker 1: Are we going to be driving on the right side

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Speaker 3: And will we have like certain air lanes will have

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Speaker 3: to stay in or can anybody just kind of fly

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Speaker 1: Want to altitude?

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Speaker 3: These are all the questions, and these are all the

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Speaker 1: It's not like highways, and they have to understand that

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Speaker 1: avoiding accidents should be the priority.

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Speaker 2: Not just tech buzz. However, it is fun to think about,

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Speaker 2: I'd love a little flying car. How many times have

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Speaker 1: You're on your way into work and you're like, get

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Speaker 1: Matt Bear's traffic report, and he's like, oh, you know,

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Speaker 1: if I could just pop in my own little drone

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Speaker 2: And the problem with that, everybody else will be doing exactly.

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Speaker 2: It's not just you lifting off from this traffic jam.

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Speaker 3: And you know, if you if you get into a

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Speaker 3: Have parachutes on these things too? Or are we gonna

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Speaker 3: have to strap a parachute into it? And then think

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Speaker 3: when you go on a commercial airplane, that's gonna have

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Speaker 3: I can just go out to my garage and get

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And what sort of licensing is required and how

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Speaker 1: much is the state gonna get Oh, oh, you want

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Speaker 2: Yeah right, well you're.

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Speaker 1: Gonna have to pay for that.

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Speaker 2: Can they can they toll us in the sky if it?

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Speaker 3: Believe me, if they can figure out a way to

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Speaker 3: create coal roads in the sky, Mike Brown will be

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Speaker 3: there going yep, sign me up for that.

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Speaker 2: I need some of that sweet, sweet tax payer money.

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Speaker 1: Just think about Matt Barron. Now he's going to have

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Speaker 1: the sky. So this prototype is being tested. It's part

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Speaker 1: of this aviation startup called sky Drive, and they've been

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Speaker 3: Now Casey, you know me, I am an early adopter

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Speaker 3: wait for the Elon Musk Optimist robot. I'm all in

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Speaker 3: on that. This one I have a bit of a

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Speaker 3: problem with. For all the reasons you just talked about,

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Speaker 3: it would be total chaos in the sky.

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Speaker 1: So you're saying you wouldn't get in one, you wouldn't

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Speaker 1: try it.

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Speaker 2: I'm saying, not only would I would not do that.

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Speaker 3: I don't think that this is really a plausible thing

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Speaker 3: still thirty forty fifty years away from this. Something you

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Speaker 3: it would be, in all seriousness, the key to this,

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Speaker 3: and that would be autonos flying. So we don't have

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Speaker 3: coming soon. I think for any of this to work

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Speaker 1: Well. And the other question that I have is, when

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Speaker 1: you're done with it, where does it go? Where's the port?

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Speaker 1: Does it go land back on the ground or is

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Speaker 1: like it did for George Jetson into a briefcase and.

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Speaker 2: Then you just carry it into work your briefcase. Is

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Speaker 2: that what we're looking at here?

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Speaker 3: Again, I don't think we're I don't think we're seriously

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Speaker 3: looking at this available in our lives. This is not

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Speaker 3: even going to probably be in our daughter's lifetime. I'm

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Speaker 3: not going to have to worry about this. I'll be

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Speaker 3: long and dead.

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Speaker 2: By the time this becomes a viable reality, it's.

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Speaker 1: Ninety three WYBC.

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Speaker 2: Jane, his wife,