Microsoft working on Flying Car?
From The
Register comes this story about Microsoft MapPoint and an unusual set of driving directions.
bq.
Is Microsoft preparing a flying car?
No future is complete without a flying car, but it's the invention that like Longhorn, never arrives. However many readers write in with evidence from Microsoft Norway that such a vehicle may be in trial. The company's Map Point directions service is suggesting a route that at the very least, requires an amphibious vehicle similar to that great British invention, the Hovercraft.
bq. If you ask Microsoft's Mappoint how to get between the Norwegian towns of Haugesund and Trondheim - a journey of about 700 kilometers using a conventional road vehicle, the user is presented with a rather dramatic detour.
Here is a screencap of the route in question:
I would hate to have to reboot in mid-air...
Posted by DaveH at January 24, 2005 4:14 PM