Trump proposes 10 futuristic ‘Freedom Cities,’ featuring Jetsons-like flying cars
Published Fri, Mar 3 20232:39 PM EST
“I want to ensure that America, not China, leads this revolution in air mobility,” Trump said in the video.
The policy-light plan sketched a vision of America’s future that was in some ways reminiscent of “The Jetsons,” the classic cartoon depicting a high-tech utopian society where commuters traveled to work by flying car.
Efforts to build electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles, or eVTOLs, are already well underway — though flying taxis and aerial highways aren’t expected anytime soon, with automakers still working out self-driving technology for land-locked cars.
In a press release, Trump’s campaign asserted that 10 cities the size of Washington, D.C., could be built using less than one tenth of one percent of the hundreds of million of acres of “empty” government-owned land. That land would not be part of U.S. national parks, the campaign noted.
Trump’s video also teased a “major initiative” to lower the cost of living, with a focus on lowering the costs of buying a car building a single-family home.
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