Small Aircraft Transportation System will change your life!

I didn't see last week's episode of 60 Minutes, but they featured a few different versions of cutting-edge personal aircraft. In the next few years--not decades, just years--new, smaller, easier to fly personal aircraft will become available to the general public. Some, such as the AirScooter will offer full flight, a gasoline powered engine, a range of over 100 miles at 50 mph and cost around $50,000.
That's less than a new Escalade (fully loaded, of course.) It's a new idea brought to us by self-taught inventor Woody Norris, 66, the guy who brought us wireless headsets and digital recorders.
Other craft, like Dr. Paul Moller's Skycar, have been around for years but are suddenly preparing to make the short hop from theory to floor models.
All of this is possible because of a little thing NASA has been working on for a while. The Small Aircraft Transportation System (SATS) will revolutionize air travel as we know it. Think of how George Jetson got to work. That's the very near future.
Basically, it makes flying a lot less complicated by using technology to remove some of the trickier elements. Flying in the future will be very much like operating a video game aircraft today; controls are fly-by-wire, images digitized and enhanced; a virtual CGI of the sky will be superimposed on your dashboard, with traffic lines, route markers and warning signals.
Once that becomes a reality, the sky will be filled with Carter Copters, Flying Platforms and all sorts of personal, practical, reliable and safe aircraft.