IN FLUENCE
Technology
WHERE’S MY FLYING CAR?
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FUTURISTIC CONCEPTS
DRIVERS WANT MOST
yes wide, legs crossed, and a little bowl of marshmallow-filled breakfast cereal in front of you? The familiar theme song would play, color would fill the screen and there they’d be — that futuristic family in a flying cartoon car. It was
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an incredible sight, one that filled us with wonder and excitement, and the hope of having our very own airborne automobile by 2020. Sixty-eight percent of Americans believed that dream would turn into
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reality, according to Hankook Tire’s Gauge Index Survey. And while we wait for that innovation to come to mass-market fruition, the reality of putting your car on autopilot from A to B is right around the corner.