{"id":535707,"date":"2010-04-20T17:30:24","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T21:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/?p=7295"},"modified":"2010-04-20T17:30:24","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T21:30:24","slug":"now-here%e2%80%99s-a-plan-we-can-all-get-behind-%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/535707","title":{"rendered":"Now here\u2019s a plan we can all get behind \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; a self-piloting flying car.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/news\/frame.html?main=\/news\/news_single.html?id%3D12057\" >Via KurzweilAI.net<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"2\" cellpadding=\"5\" width=\"100%\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\">DARPA announces plans for self-piloted flying car<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#EEEEEE\">Physorg.com, Apr. 19, 2010<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/news\/news_single.html?id=12057\">DARPA<\/a> announced that it is inviting proposals to tackle its latest project: Transformer X, a &#8220;vertical takeoff and landing roadable air vehicle&#8221; ready for testing by 2015.<\/p>\n<p>It would have a maximum payload\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/news\/news_single.html?id=12057\">capacity<\/a> of 1,000 pounds so that it can carry four passengers and their gear, be capable of flying itself automatically, achieving an altitude of 1,000 feet, and traveling 250 miles on a single tank of fuel.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.physorg.com\/newman\/gfx\/news\/2-terrafugiatr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" \/><br \/>\n<em>The Terrafugia Transition roadable aircraft, tested last year, lacks autopilot and off-road features.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news190913356.html\" >Read Original Article&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7295\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7295\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7295\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7295\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7295\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7295\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7295\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7295\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7295\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7295\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2464417&#038;post=7295&#038;subd=davidkirkpatrick&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; a self-piloting flying car. Via KurzweilAI.net: DARPA announces plans for self-piloted flying car Physorg.com, Apr. 19, 2010 DARPA announced that it is inviting proposals to tackle its latest project: Transformer X, a &#8220;vertical takeoff and landing roadable air vehicle&#8221; ready for testing by 2015. It would have a maximum payload\u00a0capacity of 1,000 pounds so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4050,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4050"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}