PAVs

Although I, and I'm sure many others, would love to own our own PAV (personal aviation vehicle) one day, this post on pantopicon makes me wonder if PAVs would ever be a good idea for our society.

In the post, it describes different concepts and designs by NASA and others that would allow individuals to fly their own personal aircraft down the street to the supermarket... or at least that's the way they talk. They speak of vertical lift-off methods, spiral vent concepts, and one even mentions how we could potentially transform our cars into aircraft... literally like Transformers.

Its all pretty cool and all, but when you think about it... with all our issues with oil, gas prices, the environment, "going green," etc... how would putting money and research into unnecessary PAVs help our world? We would spend more money on gas/oil (because you know we have SO much of that stuff to begin with...), we would clutter the sky instead of the streets (yay.), and we would get even lazier (if possible...).

I'd love one, I would. But I'd rather our money go towards making sure we still have a place to live by the time PAVs would actually become a reality.