Sinclair dreams of ‘flying cars’

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Flying Car!
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Personal flying machines will be a reality, home computer and electric car pioneer Sir Clive Sinclair has said.

He told BBC Radio 4’s iPM programme that soon it would be “economically and technically possible” to create flying cars for individuals.

Sir Clive is best-known for the Spectrum computer and his failed electric car effort, the C5.

“I’m sure it will happen and I am sure it will change the world dramatically,” he predicted.

Despite his pioneering work in the field of computers, Sir Clive told BBC Radio 4 he was not an internet user.

“I don’t use it myself directly,” he said, explaining that as an inventor he tried to avoid “mechanical and technical things around me so they don’t blur the mind”.

Sir Clive Sinclair

He said the internet was “just wonderful and quite amazing” and its growth was not something he had predicted back in the 1980s.

“It has totally surprised me. I utterly failed to foresee that.”

The celebrated inventor is not working on developing flying car technology currently but said he would “love to be involved” with any effort.

As a pioneer in personal transport, he said “flying cars were technically entirely possible”.

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