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Google will be selling flying cars by December 2016

Created by DrDiaphanous on 2013-01-10; known on 2016-12-01; judged wrong by neilscott on 2016-11-26.

  • DrDiaphanous estimated 20% on 2013-01-10
  • Peter Hurford estimated 1% on 2013-01-10
  • Qiaochu estimated 1% on 2013-01-11
  • Qiaochu said “Prediction is too specific. I would have assigned a somewhat higher probability that some company will be doing this by 2016, but Google in particular seems more likely to focus on self-driving cars for awhile. on 2013-01-11
  • RandomThinker estimated 5% on 2013-01-11
  • roxton estimated 0% on 2013-01-11
  • kiba estimated 0% on 2013-01-11
  • Cy Fleming estimated 1% on 2013-01-15
  • Tuxedage estimated 0% on 2013-01-15
  • ChristianKl estimated 0% on 2013-01-15
  • jasticE estimated 1% on 2013-01-17
  • lavalamp estimated 1% on 2013-01-21
  • Nic_Smith said “How do we deal with flying cars with a Google OS, but different manufacturer, much like Android phones now?on 2013-01-21
  • ewang estimated 0% on 2013-01-21
  • simplicio estimated 0% and said “Flying cars are basically a bad idea IMHO. That combined with the additional detail that this is google specifically makes this seem pretty unlikely.on 2013-01-21
  • Michael Dickens estimated 5% on 2013-01-21
  • Emanuel Rylke estimated 0% on 2013-01-22
  • DrDiaphanous estimated 3% and said “I guess that was massively overconfident. The 20% is ignoring either the “Google” or the “selling”.on 2013-01-22
  • JoshuaZ estimated 1% on 2013-01-23
  • alanog estimated 0% on 2013-01-23
  • Slahzer estimated 1% on 2013-01-30
  • Benja estimated 1% on 2013-01-30
  • Elithrion estimated 0% on 2013-02-01
  • kiba estimated 0% on 2013-04-01
  • Andrew MacFie estimated 1% on 2014-06-29
  • themusicgod1 estimated 42% on 2016-04-14
  • Andrew MacFie estimated 1% on 2016-07-09
  • neilscott   judged this prediction wrong on 2016-11-26.