Yeah, those darned conspiracy theorists, all crazy and stuff - complaining about a policy that was stupid and evil.
But now that it hit the news and EVERYONE said it was stupid and evil, the government has stopped doing the stupid, evil thing.
So those people are now wrong and crazy.
Until the government starts doing it again.
Not exactly, because most of the country is Class G airspace, and aircraft aren't limited to public roads. There's even lots of Class G airspace not too far from cities, located underneath controlled airspace. However you still might have to worry about local ordinances and such.
You don't have to fly helicopters from any kind of designated area, as long as you're in Class G airspace. Of course, this excludes probably every municipality, and means you can only land in your backyard if you live in the sticks. And there's still the problem of where to land, unless your office is also in the sticks.
We already have flying cars: they're called "helicopters". They're absurdly expensive to operate, even the small 2-seater models, they're absurdly difficult to operate and require an enormous amount of training, and they're extremely dangerous.
If you want a way to move people around faster, the answer is SkyTran.
government vehicles only with highly trained operators, so EMTs, Police, Firemen, etc.
Highly trained? Have you seen the way cops drive? They can't even be bothered to use turn signals.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/antidepressant-use-in-pregnancy-linked-to-autism-risk-in-boys/
It's published in the New England Journal of Medicine and given the previous, fraudulent work concerning autism and vaccines, I am guessing that the editors and reviewers took a very, very careful look at the evidence before accepting this paper for publication. As always, correlation does not equal causation, however it provides a good hint of where to look. It would hardly be surprising to find that powerful drugs that alter neurotransmitter levels and expression of growth factors in the brain affect the brain of a developing fetus. Furthermore, the sudden epidemic of autism seems to take off at about the same time doctors start prescribing these drugs to everyone and their dog. If this turns out to be true... we're looking at billions of dollars in liability for the drug companies and the credibility of the psychiatric industry left in shreds.
I plead Poe's Law.
When I drive with my wife on longer trips, she frequently drives while I do navigation with two phones. One phone does the actual navigation (and sits in a windshield-mount), while I use a second phone to do things such as look for restaurants to stop at, check the reviews at those restaurants, etc. It'd be idiotic to prevent me from doing that and force us to pull over for 15 minutes just to figure out where we'd like to stop next, and would only increase our chances of an accident.
You can do what I did and buy a suction-cup mount for your windshield for $6 from Dealextreme.
Lemme guess, you have a Ford? My mom's complained about car computers failing on her over the years too, and she's had Fords for about 20 years now. I never heard anyone else complain about this.
if the object you were holding to your head wasn't a cell phone, just a block of wood, people would think it would be stupid to hold it to their head, but it wouldn't distract them from driving.
Back in the 90s, people used to do something much like that, and people thought it was cool: it was possible back then to buy fake car phones, so that you could drive around holding a fake phone to your head and talking to yourself. Why would you do this? Because car phones back then were really expensive (and totally portable phones even more so), so some people liked to buy these fake phones so they could look like they were rich, and impress all their neighbors as they drove by.
I thought that, largely because of the autism fears, all the childhood vaccines in the US now do not use thimerosal (the methylmercury-based preservative), but instead have switched to other preservatives to allay these fears.
After Goliath's defeat, giants ceased to command respect. - Freeman Dyson