Jaws 19’ Trailer Released As ‘Back To The Future II’ Finds Its Way Into Reality

A Jaws 19 trailer has just been released by Universal Pictures. This clever trailer is a spoof in tribute to the 1989 movie Back to the Future II where Marty McFly travels into the future.

In the movie, shortly after McFly arrives in the fictional future, he is standing outside a movie theater when a 3D shark hologram jumps out at him. The digital image is a promo for the upcoming movie Jaws 19. Although startled at first, he regains his composure and says, "The shark still looks fake."

For the past 26 years, fans of the Back to the Future franchise have been anxiously awaiting October 21, 2015. This is the date Marty McFly arrives in the future. Interestingly, although there is no real Jaws 19 movie, some of Back to the Future's predictions have come about.

Just as in Back to the Future II, "Pepsi Perfect" will be real, well for a short time anyway. PepsiCo will be releasing a limited edition line of "Pepsi Perfect" bottles on October 21. There will only be 6,500 bottles available and only sold online for $20.15. Despite the "Perfect" label, the beverage inside the bottle will be the same, usual Pepsi. If you want to get one early, PepsiCo will have 1,500 bottles available at New York Comic Con about a week before than the official release.

Pepsi Is Releasing the Bottle from "Back to the Future II" http://t.co/TbqW6wkVkv pic.twitter.com/0Jon1h8bjz

— Popular Mechanics (@PopMech) October 7, 2015

In a report by WOKV News, Nike is planning to release self-lacing, light-up shoes similar to the ones worn by Marty in the 1989 sequel. The laces will be powered by motorized rollers that tighten when someone's foot is inserted into the shoe. Supposedly, the shoes are an enhanced version of its Nike Air Mag line that was released in 2011.

According to a recent article by the Independent, Back to the Future II hoverboards will soon be a reality. With the help of funding raised through Kickstarter, Arx Pax will be shipping its Hendo Hoverboard. The board is powered with four "hover engines" and levitates via a self-generating magnetic field. If you pledged $10,000 or more to the project, you will be one of the first to get one.

Tablets, hi-tech eyewear like Google Glass, and video conferencing were all foreseen in the movie and have come into existence. However, fax machines still being widely used in 2015 was something Back to the Future II got wrong. Also, many are still waiting for the flying cars too.

According to the movie, the Chicago Cubs are supposed to win the World Series in 2015. Many baseball fans are wondering if that is still a possibility.

REMINDER: 'Back to the Future II' predicted the @Cubs would win 2015 #WorldSeries: http://t.co/rTRUhmCswP #WildCard pic.twitter.com/JoGwJalp0S

— Good Morning America (@GMA) October 8, 2015

Let's do this! #cubbies #playoffs I believe in "Back To The Future II" prophesy! pic.twitter.com/wFRochGKvk

— Michael Muhney (@michaelmuhney) October 8, 2015

One other prediction that did not reach our present reality was a release of an actual Jaws 19 film. Even though back in 1989 when Back to the Future II was in theaters, moviegoers felt that the possibility of it happening felt real as October 21, 2015 seemed like such a long time away. Yet, now that the date is upon us and no movie, at least we have the Jaws 19 trailer to entertain us.

With Hollywood's recent deluge of sequels and remakes, there is no telling if a Jaws 19 will somehow become a reality. However, as previously reported by the Inquisitr, a Back to the Future reboot may be in the works.

Another trailer recently released trailer has Christopher Lloyd returning as Doc Brown. Apparently it is a teaser for a short film that will be released as a bonus feature on the upcoming Back to the Future 30th anniversary Blue-Ray set.

If you want to experience the Back to the Future movies again, Universal Pictures plans to re-release all three films in limited theaters on October 21, while Amazon Prime will be streaming them as well.

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Runaway cows, paint-licking horses and low-flying ducks: Craziest car insurance claims revealed

By Ruth Lythe for the Daily Mail

Published: 18:05 EST, 6 October 2015 | Updated: 04:20 EST, 7 October 2015

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Damage caused by a runaway cow, paint-licking horses and a low-flying duck were among the bizarre insurance claims made by drivers this year.

More than 500 claims involving animals were made to the over-50s insurer Saga last year.

They included a driver who claimed £1,200 after returning from a walk in the Dartmoor National Park to discover 12 wild ponies licking the paint off his car.

Crunch time: It's not just other cars that get blamed for causing accidents

Another motorist suffered £800 of damage when a runaway cow (still attached to the post it had uprooted) escaped at an agricultural show.

One driver on his way to a wedding had a narrow escape when a deer jumped out in front of his car and he slammed on the brakes. 

Unfortunately, he was then hit by a second deer which jumped out of the bushes, straight into the car, causing £2,000 of damage. Both deer escaped unharmed.

Another claim involved a motorist who was on his way to a boatyard when he spotted a low-flying duck. He swerved to avoid the mallard but ended up hitting a stone bridge. 

The duck escaped but the car needed £1,500 of repairs.

But it was a cat which caused the most damage. It took an ill-judged nap inside the bonnet of the vehicle. 

When the driver started the car, there was a strange noise. They saw the cat darting off, leaving behind £4,000 of damage in its wake.

Roger Ramsden, chief executive of Saga Services, says: 'It seems that just about anything can send a road trip into turmoil.' 

Natu ral hazards: More than 500 claims involving animals were made to the over-50s insurer Saga last year

 

 

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Back to the Future promised flying cars by October 2015, where are they?

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Back to the Future promised us flying cars in October, 2015. Have I missed them? Maybe I don't look up from my iPhone enough. But seriously, why don't we have flying cars already? — Tyler, Calgary

Where we're going, we probably need roads.

"Sure, you can make a flying car—they've shown up at auto shows every once in a while—but they cost hundreds of thousands of dollars," says futurist Michael Rogers in an email. "But what you get, for a lot of money, is a car that doesn't work very well and an airplane that doesn't work very well."

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Rogers calls flying cars "catnip for futurists" — for decades, there have been predictions that we're just a few years away from one in every driveway.

The Back to the Future series showed us a flying DeLorean from 2015.

So, 30 years later, where's our Don Valley Skyway?

Flights of fancy?

In 2014, Toyota announced that it was working on a vehicle that would hover just barely above the road to reduce road friction. In 2012, Volkswagen released a video of a prototype maglev car floating off the ground — but that was CGI, not a real car.

Meanwhile, at least three companies say they are working on flying cars.

American company Terrafugia and Slovakian company Aeromobil have designed prototypes of flying cars — planes with retractable or foldable wings — that have to be flown by a licensed pilot.

Aeromobil's prototype crashed earlier this year, but both companies say its planes should be delivered to customers by 2017.

D utch company PAL-V is taking pre-orders in Europe for a €299,000 ($441,000) car-gyrocopter hybrid.

"Users will need a Gyrocopter pilot license, which requires 30-45 hours of training," says PAL-V CEO Robert Dingemanse in an email. "It is the easiest and safest way of flying and it is great fun to learn — the vehicle will be allowed for normal road use."

Meet George Jetson?

Futurist Richard Worzel says the biggest roadblocks keeping flying cars from taking off are regulations, cost and practicality.

"There are already amphibious cars, but they were never popular because they're complex, expensive, temperamental, and of limited use," says Worzel in an email. "I wonder if, contrary to what the Terrafugia website indicates, whether the (Ministry of Transportation) and the (Federal Aviation Administration) will allow a pilot who doesn't know how to fly at the controls, even with sophisticated computer controls."

Rogers says some futurists ("rightly embarrassed by the no-show status of the flying car") are saying flying cars will be smart and self driving by the 2030s. The idea is that self flying cars wouldn't need regulations.

But Rogers thinks self-driving cars aren't right around the corner, let alone flying ones.

"I don't expect truly autonomous cars to be available for general usage until the early Twenties at the soonest," Rogers says. "And again, an autonomous flying car is a 3D navigation problem, not 2D."

Sci-fi's flying cars typically float off the ground without a rail or guideway. In Back to the Future, Marty McFly's hoverboard floats too.

In 2015, we can't actually do that. Although, we do have a two-wheel scooter called a hoverboard that doesn't actually hover. And, we've got another Kickstarter-funded hoverboard with a prototype that apparently floats on a special metal surface. Earlier this year, Lexus made one too.

"Now, there's one break through technology that could change all this: an effective antigravity device — of course, we don't even understand gravity on a theoretical level at this point, so antigravity might take a little longer," Rogers says. "On the other hand, 150 years ago we didn't have a realistic theory of electricity either, and we've done pretty well with it since then."

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Bruce Wennerstrom, Founder of Yearly Beauty Contest for Classic Cars, Dies at 89

Photo Bruce Wennerstrom in 2010 at the Greenwich Concours d'Elegance, a competition and auction held annually in Connecticut. Credit Debra C. Argen/Luxury Experience

Bruce Wennerstrom, who became smitten with automobiles as a Queens teenager and, with his wife, inaugurated the annual Greenwich Concours d'Elegance competition and auction in Connecticut for vintage car devotees, died on Wednesday in Greenwich, Conn. He was 88.

The cause was prostate cancer, his brother-in-law, Richard Walukanis, said.

"In their teens, a guy's hormones and gasoline all get mixed up together," Mr. Wennerstrom liked to say. "Most outgrow it. I never did."

Not for decades.

He test drove cars into his 80s. Once he even took a spin in a lunar rover — on Earth.

He owned a 1996 Buick Roadmaster station wagon (with a Corvette engine) for weekend chores, but he favored more exotic possessions: a limited edition 1957 Dual Ghia, notable for its finned, handmade body and Chrysler chassis (other owners included Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr.), and his 1983 and 1985 German Bitters. (Fewer than 500 of these were made, and Erich Bitter, the designer, told him that the Wennerstroms were the only family to own two, he said.)

Photo Mr. Wennerstrom and his wife, Genia, at their home in Greenwich with their German-made Bitters.

The Greenwich Concours is one of three such automotive events featured in the North American edition of "1,000 Places to See Before You Die." AmeriCares receives proceeds from the affair.

At the most recent Concours, a two-day affair in June, Bonhams auctioned off a 1938 Bugatti Type 57C Stelvio convertible for $1.45 million.

Another outlet for Mr. Wennerstrom's enthusiasm was the Madison Avenue Sports Car Driving and Chowder Society, a group of car lovers founded in 1957 by Art Peck, the president of CBS Radio, and King Moore, an advertising executive. Mr. Wennerstrom regularly presided over its monthly lunches at Sardi's in Manhattan.

Bruce Kent Wennerstrom was born in Kew Gardens, Queens, on Dec. 20, 1926. His father, John, was a clothing manufacturer. (He made Bruce's uniform when the son went off to the Army, to serve in Washington State and the Aleutians.) His mother was the former Anna Ursula Thompson.

Mr. Wennerstrom graduated from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where he met Genia Walukanis, who became a writer and illustrator and whom he married in 1955. She died in 2011. He is survived by their children, Nord, Leif, Kirk and Bria Wennerstrom; two grandchildren; and his brother, Edward.

Mr. Wennerstrom went to work in publishing. He became chief executive of Previews Inc., a real estate company, and, in 1984, chairman and president of Sotheby's International Realty.

With his wife, Mr. Wennerstrom founded the auto competition in Greenwich, where they lived, in 1996. The family has said the Greenwich Concours will continue, along with its display of eclectic exotica, which has included a World War I tank, a Terrafugia Transition flying car and a Tupolev 007 Russian amphibious craft.

Last year, Mr. Wennerstrom piloted a 1966 two-seat Fitch Phoenix, built by the racer John Fitch, across Greenwich for the Concours. He described driving the car as "a bit intimidating — it's the only one in the world." The Phoenix sold at auction for $253,000.

"Cars are worth what someone will pay for them," Mr. Wennerstrom said. "It's the ultimate free market."

Correction: October 2, 2015

An earlier version of this article misstated Bruce Wennerstrom's age. He was 88, not 89. The headline repeated the error.

Source: Bruce Wennerstrom, Founder of Yearly Beauty Contest for Classic Cars, Dies at 89

Bruce Wennerstrom, Founder of Yearly Beauty Contest for Classic Cars, Dies at 88

Photo Bruce Wennerstrom at the 2010 Greenwich Concours d'Elegance. Credit Debra C. Argen/Luxury Experience

Bruce Wennerstrom, who became smitten with automobiles as a Queens teenager and, with his wife, inaugurated the annual Greenwich Concours d'Elegance competition and auction in Connecticut for vintage car devotees, died on Wednesday in Stamford, Conn. He was 88.

The cause was prostate cancer, his brother-in-law, Richard Walukanis, said.

"In their teens, a guy's hormones and gasoline all get mixed up together," Mr. Wennerstrom liked to say. "Most outgrow it. I never did."

Not for decades.

He test drove cars into his 80s. Once he even took a spin in a lunar rover — on Earth.

He owned a 1996 Buick Roadmaster station wagon (with a Corvette engine) for weekend chores, but he favored more exotic possessions: a limited edition 1957 Dual Ghia, notable for its finned, handmade body and Chrysler chassis (other owners included Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr.), and his 1983 and 1985 German Bitters. (Fewer than 500 of these were made, and Erich Bitter, the designer, told him that the Wennerstroms were the only family to own two, he said.)

Photo Mr. Wennerstrom and his wife, Genia, at their Greenwich, Connecticut, home with their German-made Bitters.

The Greenwich Concours is one of three such automotive events featured in the North American edition of "1,000 Places to See Before You Die." AmeriCares receives proceeds from the affair.

At the most recent concours, a two-day affair in June, Bonhams auctioned off a 1938 Bugatti Type 57C Stelvio convertible for $1.45 million.

Another vehicle for Mr. Wennerstrom's enthusiasm was the Madison Avenue Sports Car Driving and Chowder Society, a group of car lovers founded in 1957 by Art Peck, the president of CBS Radio, and King Moore, an advertising executive. Mr. Wennerstrom regularly presided over its monthly lunches at Sardi's in Manhattan.

Bruce Kent Wennerstrom was born in Kew Gardens, Queens, on Dec. 20, 1926. His father, John, was a clothing manufacturer. (He made Bruce's uniform when the son went off to the Army, to serve in Washington State and the Aleutians.) His mother was the former Anna Ursula Thompson.

Mr. Wennerstrom graduated from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where he met Genia Walukanis, who became a writer and illustrator and whom he married in 1955. She died in 2011. He is survived by their children, Nord, Leif, Kirk and Bria Wennerstrom; two grandchildren; and his brother, Edward.

Mr. Wennerstrom went to work i n publishing. He became chief executive of Previews Inc., a real estate company, and, in 1984, chairman and president of Sotheby's International Realty.

With his wife, Mr. Wennerstrom founded the auto competition in Greenwich, where they lived, in 1996. The family has said the Greenwich Concours will continue, along with its display of eclectic exotica, which has included a World War I tank, a Terrafugia Transition flying car and a Tupolev 007 Russian amphibious craft.

Last year, Mr. Wennerstrom piloted a 1966 two-seat Fitch Phoenix, built by the racer John Fitch, across Greenwich for the Concours. He described driving the car as "a bit intimidating — it's the only one in the world." The Phoenix sold at auction for $253,000.

"Cars are worth what someone will pay for them," Mr. Wennerstrom said. "It's the ultimate free market."

Correction: October 2, 2015

An earlier version of this article misstated Bruce Wennerstrom's age. He was 88, not 89. The headline repeated the error.

Source: Bruce Wennerstrom, Founder of Yearly Beauty Contest for Classic Cars, Dies at 88

Dear Mr Khaw, time to think about flying cars!

Khaw Boon Wan (image – CNA) – Will he allow flying cars?

With a new Transport Minister at the helm, there is no better time than the present to think out of the box and throw him ideas on what Singapore's transport landscape could be in the years ahead.

So, how about flying cars?

The "small, privately held American corporation" called Terrafugia says it has been developing exactly such a vehicle and that it would be available in the not too distant future. The company gave a timeline of 8 to 12 years for the reality to be tangible.

"Terrafugia was founded by graduates of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and graduates of the MIT Sloan School of Management," according to Wikipedia.

And the company has released a video of what the car – the TF-X – would look like and how it can actually operate – that is, to be driven like an ordinary car and to fly when it is required to.

"While our ability to communicate and access information is increasing dramatically, personal transportation has not improved significantly in the past 50 years," Terrafugia says on its website."If anything, travel today is more of a hassle."

Well, every Singaporean can attest to that fact! Public transport has been the bane of many the last decade or so, and Mr Khaw is hoping he would not become the latest minister in charge to be put to the sword, or worse, to be asked to commit hara kiri himself!

"While the airlines have an impressive safety record, commercial air travel is far from convenient," Terrafugia says. "Cars let you set your own schedule, but they're slow and dangerous: the average commuter spends nearly five hours a week stuck in traffic, and globally, more than one million people die in car crashes each year."

So what do we need by way of personal public transport?

"We need the safety of commercial aviation, the convenience and flexibility of a car, and the freedom of the open sky."

In other words, we need nothing less than a flying car!

But here's the beauty of it – you don't have to fly it.

It flies itself.

Watch this video and see what Terrafugia has been working on:

It is not all going to be smooth-sailing, of course, especially if it comes to Singapore – imagine all those cars airborne and trying to find their way around on this tiny island, and what with all those conventional planes above us bringing in the millions of tourists every year!

But you can be sure that it is only a matter of time before everyone wants a flying car.

And so, Mr Khaw (and his successor) better get cracking on how Singapore is going to be able to allow this latest advancement of science and technology!

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Are flying cars ever going to take off?

When you were a kid and you thought about what cars would be like in years to come, you always thought they'd be flying.

That idea is pretty much exclusively the fault of cinema, with movies like Bladerunner and Back to the Future 2 nailing the fantasy down into our collective brains. Who didn't want a DeLorean with wheels that folded up so that the car could turn into a magic flying machine powered by banana peel and lite lager, in which we could utter the immortal line, "where we're going we don't need roads"?

It was amazing, but it isn't the future we got. Trash-powered engines aside (and we're not even getting into quite how that would generate enough energy to make a car fly) it doesn't seem that we'll see flying cars in the sky any time soon. However, there are some people trying to make it a reality – and one real beacon of hope.

Some of these efforts are best described as "embryonic." If you drew a flying car on a napkin during your lunch break and said that showed you were making a flying car, then you wouldn't be far behind some of these projects. We'll ignore those for now though and look at a few possible options.

The Moller Skycar 400 is the one that makes you go, "yeah, I could drive one of those bad boys around." Headed by Dr. Paul Moller, the Skycar is the furthest down the road (furthest through the air?) of all the flying car potentials out there right now.

The idea behind the Skycar 400 is that it would be a 2+2 passenger configuration based around a VTOL (Vertical Take Off and Landing) set-up. As you can see from the video, Moller has even done some actual tests – although that particular prototype was fitted with small engines and had to be attached to a crane for insurance purposes to make sure that it crashed safely in the event of failure.

The main concern is obviously that, should the engines fail. then the car will simply drop out of the sky. Moller has said: "nothing comes down faster than a VTOL aircraft upside down."

So the Skycar still has a long way to go, but as far as it being a poster on a kid's bedroom wall, this is currently the Lamborghini Countach of flying cars.

The Terrafugia Transition is even further along the line, because – as you can see in the video – it's actually flown. However, it isn't quite as you might have imagined your flying car. There's no setting this thing down in town to grab some street food, because you need a proper runway to take off and land.

If you're so inclined, you can reserve your Transition via the website right now, but you have to admit that although it fits the flying car bill it's not very cool looking is it?

With those thoughts in mind, Terrafugia is now working on its follow-up to the as-yet-unavailable Transition: the TF-X. It's scheduled for production up to 12 years from now, so it's literally pie in the sky at the moment, but the video is fantastical enough to let your mind wander over what might be.

Terrafugia says that the TF-X will have a range of 500 miles and a cruising speed of 200mph, which would certainly zip you past all of the traffic on the way to your meeting.

It's another VTOL concept, only this is a plug-in electric powered one, and you'll have to make sure that your approved landing zones are available at the other end of your journey before it'll let you take off.

All sounds rather great doesn't it? If it all comes together then you'll probably need Bentley levels of money to buy one, but you've got a few years to get saving.

The AeroMobil 3.0 combines the best of both worlds – fantastic looks and actual functionality. The first prototype was designed and built in around 10 months, and as you can see from the video, it's a gorgeous looking thing.

Initially it was certified by the Slovak Federation of Ultra-Light Flying but the current prototype has since been entered into a regular flight-testing program. And you'll be pleased to know that it contains an advanced parachute deployment system, just in case everything should everything go pear-shaped.

One of the 3.0's greatest features is that it needs around just 250 metres to take off and a mere 50 metres to land, even if it's just a grass strip.

And for all of that you just need somewhere between a supercar and a small plane's worth of coins to get one. Or alternatively, you could just get one of these balloons that's shaped like a car with a few propellers attached to it. It won't fulfil your Blade Runner dreams, but it also won't bankrupt you.

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