The Shape Of Things To Come

if you live in Paris,

photograph crédit Alain Thébault et Anders Bringdal. LP/Guillaume Georges, the SeaBubbles as they are called, is a potentially new form of electric transportation, and the newest hope to beating the Parisian traffic, known as a “flying taxi”, the SeaBubbles resembles a vehicle straight out of a science fiction film, being oblong, glassy, and having the ability to glide across water without making a sound, the craft has a top speed of 20 miles per hour, as it rises nearly 30 inches above the water using wing-like structures known as 'hydrofoils' that are designed to reduce drag, 

inside, the vehicle holds up to four passengers, who face one another as if riding in a London taxi, according to Le Parisien, whose reporter snagged a ride inside the futuristic vehicle, designers say the taxi — which has been tested up and down the river Seine in the heart of Paris — can be hailed using a smartphone app and could be available for rides as early as next year, pending final licensing, it looks like great fun, I wonder who gets to drive it? the first passenger in I guess, or perhaps it has a simple set of instructions that if pressed will take you to your choice of jetty, if it is a success the craft could be coming to a city near you.