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When progress confused |
with mechanization:

In our worship of the
machine, we have settled for
something less than a full life,
something that is hardly even
a tenth of life, or a hundredth
of a life. We have confused
progress with mechanization.

Lewis Mumford

the machines
they promised
us? You'd have to
be a certain age to recall
them— say, 40 or over. I used
to read all about them in
Popular Mechanics.

That magazine had a near-
fetish about the “automobiles
of the future.” Time and again
the editors would devote full
cover stories to rhapsodic
predictions of just how
wonderful transportation was
soon going to be. Graphic ar-
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futuristic hives and domes, all
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the air in all directions you
could see the “automobiles” of
the future — compact saucers
really, about the size of a mid-
size American car, but capable
of travelling overland or
through the air. Each of the
cars had a plastic bubble of a
cockpit, and in that cockpit
you could usually see a grin-

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JARUARY 1959
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HEROIC YEARS
OF THE AUTOMOEI
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ning, middle-class nuclear
family of the future, out for a
care-free weekend spin.

I used to moon over those
articles in Popular Mechanics
back in the late 50s. They al-
ways assured us this fantastic
world was just around the
corner. We'd all be flitting
about in jetcars well before the
turn of the century — by 1980
at the very latest.

=Basi¢- Bice

By ARTHUR BLACK

Well, it’s 1990, and I often
think of those decade-overdue
Jetcars as my hopelessly old-
fashioned, terminally pave-
ment-bound Toyota noses into
the morning rush hour traffic
going to the city. I've usually
got plenty of time to think, be-
cause there’s no rush at all in
my rush hour. I’m fused into a
miles-long traffic jam that’s
going nowhere.

Still, it’s a chance to work out
some great finger-drum solos
on the steering wheel while I
listen to the car radio. During
the really bad traffic jam I
even get to read a bit of the
morning paper.

Which is where I came
across the story about Paul
Moller and his M200X.

That’s the rather un-catchy
name Paul’s bestowed on his
invention. There’s a

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photograph of him in the
M200X that accompanies the
newspaper story.

I would have named his in-
vention differently.

I would have called it The
Jetcar.

Because that’s what it is, al- ~
right. Ten years late and not
quite as swanky as the
Popular Mechanics artist's
conception, but it’s a jetcar,
and Paul Moller, a professor of
aeronautics, is in the cockpit,
hovering about 10 feet off the
ground while newspaper
reporters take pictures. a

The M200X is only the begin-
ning, says Moller. His Califor-
nia company is already
working on a model that will
carry four passengers at 500
miles per hour as high as ~
30,000 feet and as far as 800 ,
miles on a single tank of gas. ~

Just as Popular Mechanics
predicted back in the 50s!

So how come I’m not excited?

Perhaps it’s the price tag —
Moller says a copy of his
M200X will cost about the
same as a helicopter — and
that’s a lot for a craft that so
far has only managed to hover
about 30 feet off the ground fox,
less than three minutes. :

Or maybe it’s the realization
that Jetcars will only make
driving worse, not better.

It’s bad enough being stuck
to the pavement, worrying
about tanker trucks coming
up to your tailpipe and muscle
cars passing you on a hill. Can
you imagine being out for a
romantic drive with your
Sweet Patootie when sudden-_
ly the blood drains from her
face, her eyes bulge like Wes-
tinghouse 60-watters and she
shrieks: “YUPPIE ON HIS ,
CAR PHONE AT TWELVE

You go ahead, Mr. Moller. I'll
sit this one out.