...An Assessment of the Terrafugia Flying car: its Problems, Possibilities and Prospects An Extended Essay Presented to Mr. Edward Jay M. Quinto Mapua Institute of Technology In partial fulfilment Of the requirements in English for Acadamic Purposes 2 (ENG11) By Deina Nicole C. Fernandez Joseph Christian M. Flordeliza Anne Rose O. Galera December 2013 Acknowledgements This extended essay would not have been made possible without the help of Mr. Edward Jay M. Quinto, who was our guide and inspiration in the making of this paper; the researchers family and friends, who have supported the researchers in their time of need; Mr. Sherwin Magon, who provided us with invaluable information regarding the Transition; the Directory of Open Access Journals, who gave the researchers references to complete the research paper; and the almighty father, who gave the researchers strength to battle through the tough times the researchers encountered during the process of creating this research paper “Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson D.N.C.F J.C.M.F A.R.O.G Abstract Today, Transportation has become one of our daily needs. With the introduction of Terrafugia’s flying car: the Transition, this necessity would become less of a problem in our day-to-day lives....
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...A flying car is hypothetical personal aircraft that provides door-to-door aerial transportation (e.g., from home to work or to the supermarket) as conveniently as a car but without the requirement for roads, runways or other specially prepared operating areas. In addition, the aircraft lacks any visible means of lift (unlike fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters), thus allowing it to be operated in urban areas and close to buildings, people and other obstructions. Fulfillment of some of these goals is being attempted by personal air vehicles being developed. The term "flying car" has also been used to refer to roadable aircraft and hovercars. The flying car has been depicted in works of fantasy and science fiction such as Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, The Jetsons, Star Wars, Blade Runner, Back to the Future Part II and The Fifth Element as well as in technology magazines such as Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, and Mechanix Illustrated.[1] The flying car was and remains a common feature of science fiction and conceptions of the future, including imagined near futures such as those of the 21st century. As an example, less than a month before the turn of the millennium the U.S. journalist Gail Collins noted: Here we are, less than a month until the turn of the millennium, and what I want to know is, what happened to the flying cars? We're about to become Americans of the 21st century. People have been predicting what we'd be like for...
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...Paradigm Shifts Today’s cars technology are on the rises. For so many years, cars have been part of ours everyday lives. We uses cars to get from one place to another within the city and out of towns. Apparently, cars could save us lot of times through traveling. Cars had been upgraded and improved ever since. Like nowadays, we now have a driverless car which still waiting for approval from the government. What will happen in the next 20 years from now, if our cars technology are improving much more than what we actually have? I thinks that if we continue with the technology that we have now, we'll be in greater advance in the next 20 years or so. The futures cars will be flying in the air like in the movies called (“Back To The Future” and “The Fifth Element”). Ours future cars most likely be able to flow in midair by having magnet on the bottom of the cars and the roads should be made of magnet with the opposite side of magnetism, which will forces and lifts up the car in midair by the magnet from the car and the road. The Car should have a fan in the back which will be powered by electricity battery system motor. While the motor is being turn on, it will generate the power and move the car forward or backward in midair (kind of like the hovercraft designed by Christopher Cockerell back in 1955). The only different is that the car will be in midair but not in water or land. The first impact is on rules and regulations of traffic. The cars are no longer using the roads...
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...The Study of Retro Futurism: A Look Into The Past’s Future Dreams of the future reveal more about the mind of the dreamer than the future itself. Futurism was brought about by humanity’s sudden trust and understanding of the technological revolution. To the people who were around during these sudden changes in technology, it seemed that the future was right around the corner. This optimistic concept of the future sparked the creativity of artists and filmmakers everywhere and caused their imaginations to run wild with thoughts of what the world would be like in the very distant future. Incredible flying machines float over the Empire State Building while a war between humans and robots below is being fought with laser technology. An entire city made of porcelain and metal soars above Niagara Falls. Humans travel in tubes to work, and breakfast...
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...Essay Thesis: Maglev trains will be the future of transportation providing benefits for the environment, society, and economic benefits. In our world today we have many problems. Problems that we are facing are environmental, social, and economic issues. This is due to the fact that traveling to work has become a hassle and when your using your car it also causes environmental damage. When people travel in their cars they have to fill it up with gas, which we have seen, gas prices increasing tremendously. This causes social problems because people don’t want to travel because it’s too expensive. The environmental problems we have are the fact that CO2 emissions are polluting over environment and causing harm to everyone. The result of this is global warming which is affecting our environment and society. Economic issues are the fact that importing and exporting oil is expensive. This is why we need to find an alternative. That’s why Maglev trains will be the future of transportation providing benefits for the environment, society, and economic benefits. Maglev trains use electromagnets, which make the train levitate. This causes the train to cause no friction and “may be a travel solution of the future”. This means that it doesn’t cause any noise pollution, which is great for ecosystems living around the track and also benefits society because then they don’t have to here the noise of the train, which most people find annoying. Personally I live right by the GO station...
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...TECHNOLOGY IN THE NEXT 20 YEARS As time flies by, people around the world are getting smarter and smarter each day. Knowing that every person in this world have unexceptionally inexhaustible needs, people are trying to improve or to create new technologies that feels impossible to us to be actualized, but without us realizing as years passed by, those ideas might actually become a reality. Those ideas and plans need more than just a few years for them to be realized. They probably need 15 to 20 years until it comes to reality. Now that we know how smart, creative and advanced people are, some crazy ideas that are not likely able to exist at the present time can possibly appear in the next 20 years. One of the most popular technologies that people are hoping to be realized in the future is probably flying cars. Airplane feels impossible for people who live before the Wright brothers successfully created one. This can lead to the possible realization of flying cars in the future and we believe that those people who work on it will create something much higher than our expectation. Other technology that is likely to come true in the next twenty year is probably robots that are able to live and assist humans. Those robots are used to help humans in their daily lives and able to communicate as well as do other things that humans did, or even things that humans aren’t capable to do. Looking from the progress made nowadays, all the technologies in the next 20 years will be very...
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...Kuklis Economics Since 1885, when cars were first invented there have been many innovations to the model. Cars in current day come in many sizes and have have new features that makes one's driving experience enjoyable. Self-driving car technology is the newest advancement that we have seen today. Self-driving cars are the cars of the future because they provide the passengers a more enjoyable ride and also allow for more productive time use during the trip. Some critics may say that self-driving cars are not the way cars will be in the future. Self-driving will be safer for anyone on the road. “One manufacturer is expecting 99.7 per cent of road accident injuries to be eliminated. It has a team working on ways to prevent the remaining 0.3 per cent of deaths and injuries on the roads.”This is making the chance of one getting into an accident very unlikely. Also, another great thing would be that we would be able to get to our destinations much quicker. “Over time, higher speed limits might be considered as an option if more...
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...transportation in their ability to travel equally well over land, ice, and water. Small hovercraft are used for sport or passenger service, while giant hovercraft have civilian and military applications, and are used to transport cars, tanks, and large equipment in hostile environments and terrain. A hovercar is a transport vehicle appearing in works of fiction. It is used for personal transportation in the same way a modern automobile is employed. You must steer it, like you would a normal vehicle. The only difference is the "flying" effect. It is capable of flying and elevates itself some distance from the ground through some repulsion technology, presumably exploiting some short range anti-gravity principle so as to eliminate most friction forces which act against conventional vehicles. Unlike an air cushion vehicle, this does not produce a dust cloud. Another similar real-world device is the hovercraft, which elevates itself above a water or level hard surface using a cushion of air retained by a flexible skirt. Such devices are not considered to be hover cars, however—that term is used only for the fictional device. Examples of hover cars can be found in science fiction films or television series such as Blade Runner and Back to the Future Part II, and in futuristic racingvideo games, such as the F-Zero series, and the wipEout...
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...Future of Policing Heather Kyzer CJS 210-Fundamentals of Policing October 30, 2011 Stephen Slaughter Future of Policing When I think of the future, I think of the cartoon shown on television “The Jetson’s.” I think of the flying cars and homes that you can raise up in the sky if you don’t like the weather. I like the jet pack in which you can fly from place to place instead of drive or walk. My favorite episode of this cartoon is when George gets pulled over for breaking line in traffic by flying his car over the line of traffic and rear ending a police car. I remember that the officer gets out of car and flies over to George and prints him a ticket out of his belt buckle. Also when I when I think of the future I think about the old “Terminator” movies and “Robocop.” The future is hard to picture during these times when the economy is in such terrible conditions. There is one thing that I know that the future will have is teachers, doctors, nurses, lawyers, and law enforcement officials. As adults we all know that we do not know what the future will in tell for any of us, but there is one thing that I am for sure that will change and that is technology. Technology is changing every day around the world. There are several trends currently affecting policing in today’s society that will affect the future of how things operate and function. The most important trends that have the largest impact on policing currently are drugs, corruption, gangs, training...
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...Electric and flying cars:- In the next twenty years, the world will have solved the major problems of transportation today. Global warming news will no longer be splashed over news screens nation wide in the area of transportation making life much more enjoyable for all. .. Emissions from millions of vehicles on the road add up and cause the global warming problem talked of earlier. . Electric vehicles or EVs, are vehicles that are powered by an electric motor instead of an internal combustion engine. EVs use electricity as the "fuel" instead of gasoline or some other combustible fuel. The power for the vehicle is stored in many large batteries in the bottom of the car, from there the power goes to a power regulator where it is changed from DC power to AC power The solution is to have much more efficient vehicles that produce fewer emissions with every mile. This is why in twenty years the electric vehicle, or EV as most scientists refer to it, will see its nation wide introduction to roads everywhere. Electric vehicles are actually present in the world today. Unfortunately, the price of these EVs well exceeds the price of a normal car. Traffic jams will be a thing of the past as some cars take to the air. In fact, traffic jams will be documented at the Smithsonian to ensure future generations have a sense of what traffic jams were. The next twenty years will see huge advancements In numerous cities across the country, the personal automobile is the single greatest polluter In...
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...The World In Fifty Years How advanced will the world be in fifty years? The world is going to change over time it’s not going to stay the same. New technology will be built and we will use fewer resources. School will change a lot and new vehicles for travel will be more advanced and built. School is going to change over a fifty year time span. More technology will be made and will replace paper so we save trees. With people learning easier lessons with technology school hours will be cut down because people are not only learning easier but they are learning faster. Students will have less homework due to the fact they learn and finish it in class. Students also have to worry less about homework because stuff will stick in their heads easier. Even if a student has homework they can always have their robot do it for them. New ways to move about are also being made and put into action. Cars made into hover cars which everyone will own a hover car. Public transportation will change so that people don’t need to take the bus but to teleport around to places. Planes can be engineered to move at supersonic speeds and get people in a hurry around for their business trips. Soon enough hover boards will be made and everyone who’s anyone will have them self a hover board. Video games with added effects will be in the future waiting for people to purchase them.4-D gaming is soon to come out and will make all gamers go crazy for them and excited to play the new games. In this world games...
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...and time living first in Baltimore and then Northern Maine. His life stories are very important on how they shaped him as an individual, and how they taught him life lessons that he would need in the future. I choose him because he has had a lot of unique experiences with sports, farming and many more that were told to me during this interview. My dad was born in Baltimore, Maryland on November 18, 1985 where he lived with his parents and partially his grandparents. By the time he was five and had just started kindergarten, he moved to Littleton, Maine. He grew up on a farm, and found himself working picking potatoes and doing...
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...Driverless Cars Many people die each year because of car accidents caused by a lack of caution and safety. With improvements in technology, the number of people who die can and will lessen. Driverless cars should be permitted on roads because they cause fewer accidents and increase safety. To begin, driverless cars should be permitted on roads because they cause fewer accidents. In the article Cars of Tomorrow-Still not Flying, the author states that Google’s fleet of driverless cars drive half a million miles without an accident compared to humans that get into an accident every half a million miles. One of the big reasons people get into accidents is because they drive while drunk. Driverless cars have a unique technology system that hits...
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...Firstly, it is one of many action films I watched in my early teens; a considerable number of which, like this film, starred the Austrian body-builder turned actor, Arnold Schwarzenegger. What is so different about The Terminator though, is that unlike most of these films, this movie has enough depth and substance that, not only does it still bear watching now that I am older, but it also has an archive of academic theory written about it. The Terminator tells of a cyborg, a human shaped machine coated in flesh, that is sent back in time, from an apocalyptic future in which machines have 'got smart' and acted on their own to destroy the human race. The cyborg's mission is to assassinate the mother of the human's great leader, the man who taught the survivors to fight back against the machines. The woman, a young waitress named Sarah Connor, is protected only by a lone warrior - Kyle Reese - sent back to protect her by her future son, John. Reese is in love with Sarah, a love formulated from a photograph he has of her. A sexual relation with her causes pregnancy that will result in John's birth, before the pair manage to destroy the terminator, although not before Reese is himself victim to the wrath of the machine. John Connor has then in effect knowingly sent...
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...My hands seemed to be on autopilot, typing phrases and codes, as I program the character to move and jump, the little figure on the computer screen seeming to come to life as I continue coding. It feels like the world suddenly calms and my troubles leave because nothing quells my thirst for an escape from reality more than technology. When seeing cyberspace worlds unfurl, senses of joyfulness, freedom, and tranquility surge through me. Anything is suddenly possible and real, the law of physics and gravity no longer limit us anymore. Ideas seem to rush through me in this moment of peace. Without warning my brain seems to see all the improvements that can be done to the laptop. The resolution upgraded to life-like scenery, unlimited storage,...
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