#ThrowbackThursday: In 2012, our wildest sci-fi dreams seemed possibly within reach, at least for an elite few. In a story about two up-and-coming flying-car companies, senior writer Nicholas Köhler reported on their progress: (1/5) #tbt 
“While Terrafugia is intent on getting its Transition to a good swath of the moneyed set … [Carplane project manager John] Brown doesn’t believe the flying car will be the mass commuter vehicle of the future[.]” (2/5)
“Carplane’s market will include leisure and business travel … but emergency and military applications, including the delivery of organs for transplant, is where Brown sees the most immediate future for the flying car.” (3/5)
In the same issue, writing from an imaginary future, Scott Feschuk had a slightly more clairvoyant take: (4/5)
“Also, the whole “flying car” thing didn’t really work out. We’re as surprised as you are. After all, what could be safer than giving terrible drivers the ability to make poor decisions in literally an infinite number of directions?” (5/5)
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