![]() He called his flying car an “aerodyne” that worked via an unseen propulsion system. Related: The Petersen Automotive Museum’s Hollywood cars exhibit.įor starters, the flying cars, called “spinners,” were designed by the great Syd Mead, visual futurist, industrial designer, automotive designer, and all-around interesting human. ![]() ![]() But … there’s some interesting caveats that go along with how they handled flying cars in the world of Blade Runner that make the entire idea potentially much more workable. And, as with most things flying car related, I give this an F grade for its accuracy in terms of a technology prediction. Of Blade Runner’s many predictions – genetic engineering, super-scale architecture, and holographic manipulation to name only three – the one we are concerned with here at Automoblog is, of course, flying cars. Like all great works of art, it raises some essential questions of what makes us human how does a person maintain their humanity why do we live and what is the point of this life and is it okay to fall in love with a robot you’ve been having sex with? Flying Cars & Blade Runner Set in a dystopian, grimy, crowded Los Angeles of 2019 (just last year!) Blade Runner showed us a future of environmental devastation and the slow, inexorable grinding down of humanity, one person at a time, in pursuit of the all-mighty dollar. It went nowhere at the box office, and only later picked up steam and a cult following when it was released on VHS. Blade Runner was released in 1982 and landed with a thud.
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