I remember when I was a kid watching the Jetsons on TV. They gave me the idea for extended 3-D TV. In the future, a system I call the double-field motive system may be used to allow us to have better cars than the Jetsons.
First a circulating motive field is generated that ionizes the air and surfaces. Whatever direction it is flowing is the opposite direction the vehicle will travel just like with a tank's track and the speed of the circulation is the speed the vehicle will travel.
An inner field is generated that repels off of the motive field and levitates the vehicle off of a surface. That means cars won't need wheels and the landing gear of my hypersonic spaceplane will be able to glide over surfaces and allow the plane to land softly on the moon without needing a landing strip.
In my book THE MADHOUSE PROJECTS, a flying car I wrote about had a double-field motive system that allowed it to fly by extending the motive field instead of wings. There were stubby ones though. But flight depended on the extended fields.
Such a system will also allow people to have flying suits that will let them fly like UFOs. That means many commuters may opt to fly to work instead of drive or take mass transit systems. Every morning they'll strap on the suit, turn it on, and use possibly hand controls that will determine the speed, altitude, and direction they will travel.
Let's say it's Tuesday morning in the year 2058. Your job is in Manhattan and you live in Peekskill. You get up in the morning, do everything you normally do, place your briefcase in the chest carrier, and strap on the flying suit. It's all charged up and ready to go.
You would step out of your house or apartment, turn on the suit, and take off into the air. You might feel comfortable at an altitude of 500 feet. With the fields surrounding you, you wouldn't feel a breeze as you fly over the countryside at between 150 and 200 mph.
The trip to Manhattan may take only 20 minutes. But you're not in that much of a hurry. If you were, you might fly at over 300 to 400 mph. In the time it takes someone who lives in Peekskill in 2008 to drive down to Croton to pick up the train to Manhattan, a person in 2058 can fly down to work.
The double-field motive system will allow military vehicles to fly and soldiers can attack an enemy on the ground or in the air. A third field could be a force field that may be strong enough to protect the soldier from gunfire and maybe even missiles.
A vehicle that has the double-field motive system may be able to glide a few centimeters above the streets and highways at over 300 mph. A trip to Washington from where I live in Peekskill, New York could be done over the roads, over the water, or through the air. I might opt for the air and fly at 400 mph at an altitude of 1000 meters. I could start out in the morning and get to my motel by late morning. I would still have time to do some sightseeing.
If I wanted to travel to Europe, I could fly there in a couple hours. A flying vehicle would be no larger than a car. A nuclear power source like my injection reactor might be used. But if I can't afford to go nuclear, flywheels might be used. They could even be respun in mid-air if the vehicle received energy from a power satellite that would beam energy to people that need it.
People have been trying to build a flying car that is practical for decades. Maybe with the double-field motive system that day people have looked forward to will arrive.
