Exactly. I first remember seeing the flying car stuff on the covers of Popular Mechanics, etc, when I was a kid in the 1950's. I somehow recognized even then that having many thousands of doofus non-pilots flying to the city for work each morning was a recipe for dozens and dozens of daily crashes and disasters. It's one of those blue sky ideas that refuses to die, and is totally impractical.
Flying car covers sold that magazine a lot better than circuit drawings and gear diagrams would.
My favorite was the "Thompson Flier" an aluminum disk about three feet in diameter with a lawn mower engine powering a propeller situated in the middle, and the prop underneath. You held the throttle in your hand and flew the thing by standing over the engine. The only picture of the thing actually flying was over water. I wonder why? Talk about a death wish.