Tuesday, October 20, 2026

Flying cars: FAA already has enough trouble dealing with what's already in the sky!

 
Top headline and screengrab:  The Guardian, 10/16/2026
Bottom headline:  The Guardian, 5/10/2025

Mark Sweney reports on 10/16/2026:
“I’m not sure it’s necessarily legal in all jurisdictions,” Musk said, adding that the prototype was “not necessarily a safety optimised car but it takes the fun meter to 11”. 
In 2014 Musk expressed his scepticism about a future with flying vehicles. 
However, three years later he announced the development of the Roadster 2, which will go into production in 2028 and is priced in excess of $200,000, (£150,000), to create an electric sports car “to give a hardcore smackdown to gasoline cars”.
Sweney reports on 5/10/2025:
Political leaders were quick to criticize the rickety state of the air traffic system. Senator Chuck Schumer of New York said the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) was “really a mess”, while New Jersey’s governor, Phil Murphy, decried “decades of underinvestment” in air traffic control infrastructure, “delays” in modernizing technology, and “inadequate air traffic control staffing”. 
The transport department’s inspector general has found that at 20 of the nation’s 26 most critical airports, air traffic control staffing falls below the 85% minimum level, with many controllers forced to work 10-hour days and six-day weeks. After the communications breakdown in Newark, several air traffic controllers there was so shaken that they went on “trauma leave”, leaving that airport even more understaffed.

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