How about mastering ground driving first
The Jestsons promised us a flying car in this century. I want my flying car.
What could possibly go wrong? 99% of people who drive cars can’t handle that task and we’re going to give them wings? Feh. The insurance premiums alone will sink that idea.
Policing airborne traffic is gonna be fun.
And media will film the chases from the paved highways?
More of a skeet shooter’s dream actually.
I can see it now. People texting and flying.
It’s a fun idea, and an engineering challenge, but we just don’t need a flying car. A swarm of flying cars would cause new dimensions of problems and risks. I can see having such a vehicle for special missions, say in the Antartic, but not as an aerial expressway. Will the police be flying too? Could they disable a flier who refused to ‘pull over’? To where would we ‘pull over’? One cannot land just anywhere.
Stay out of my airspace!!
They’ve been developed multiple times before. Problem is they suck. The weight of all the car parts make them not very useful as planes and there’s really nothing you can do with the wings in car mode that isn’t irritating. Unless we actually get some sort of repulsor tech ala Blade Runner it’s a non-starter.
Commuter Nightmare : If you think surface 50-car accidents in fog are spectacular bloodbaths, Wait until there's a 50 flying coffin accident which falls onto your neighborhood.
Or even a two-car flying coffin accident with retarded Democrats COMMUTING while texting.
DUMBEST IDEA SINCE THE NOTION THAT A DELUSIONALLY INSANELY GREEDY AND POWER-HUNGRY UGLY DRUNK FAT WOMAN WOULD MAKE A GREAT PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE!
Unless these flying cars are VTOL, forget it. How many companies have a landing strip? And who is going to control traffic so some genius doesn’t barge out onto the strip just when someone else is coming in on final? A pilot’s license is MANDATORY!
Really stupid idea. 2/3 of current drivers are not fit in any way to handle a car.
My uncle was Dewey Bryan who created several roadable-aircraft. His last one had Michigan license plates. He used the frozen lake across the street from his house as his airport. Sadly, his life was lost at the Oshkosh Air Show. He was a great man.
I’ve been hearing this was the wave of the futures since I was a little kid in the ‘50’s. There were going to be flying cars... and amphibious boat-cars (actually some of those were built). And at the time, no one was worried about hitting planes or drones, because there were fewer and none, respectively.
Really true “flying cars” would be nightmare logistically, but something that could hover to a set ceiling, maybe 20 feet or so, that might be workable. That would allow them to fly above regular cars on the roadways, but if the driver/pilot messes up and crashes from that height, it wouldn’t be nearly as disastrous.
Licensing requirements would need to be a lot stricter than for driver’s licenses but not as tough as pilot’s licenses.
Someone sent me a joke about flying cars - If they are purchased by someone over 60 years of age they will come equipped with an orange flag mounted on the left rear fender, forever waving in the breeze and the software will be programmed to allow the left turn signal to remain on at all times.
It would be safer to work on teleportation.