[McGruff]

What could go wrong?

[Joe 6-pack]

Hopefully it can hover so you can determine where the oil is leaking from.

[I want the USA back]

Sure.

This stupid idea is not new, but it is as stupid now as it was when it first came out. (I saw it in a Popular Science mag when I was a kid.)

Dumber than “self” driving cars.

[headstamp 2]

Lotsa fun in the Safeway parking lot.

[Blue Highway]

The Jetson’s era has FINALLY arrived!

[pops88]

The DMV pairs up with the FAA...God help us.

[heterosupremacist]

[antidisestablishment]

At least it looks like a flying vehicle

[SkyPilot]

A “flying car” is an airplane.

[McGruff]

With all the road rage incidents think of the sky possibilities. What goes up must come down.

[taildragger]

* Their is a whole new generation of flying contraptions.
* They are big dollar projects, some back yard types ( Peter Sripol )
* I am a bit flummoxed that EAA-er's ( as one myself ) missed this.
* Perhaps we were too busy trying to snag a run-out Lycoming to rebuild later for the RV-7 etc, and its glass panel.
* These flying machines rely on stability control
* The brush-less permanent magnet motor an Li-Ion batteries make VTOL without a helicopter configuration possible w/ rotation power assemblies.
* Efficiency can be sacrificed a bit for simplicity.
* A whole new generation of Solid State batteries will be here for autos in 2025 think 2 to 3x energy density where we are now.
* Anode revolution is the next step after that, could be more X's and more importantly battery life.
* I shutter to think, we maybe 10x energy density sooner than we think.

With all that said a flying machine like this will be electric and all of the above. None of this stuff is crazy anymore. Integration is key. I aware of a project and get to see it ( somewhat related to this area ) and see the challenges, this is not easy stuff to do, like Ronald Reagan said ( paraphrase here ) the simple solutions are the hardest. It will take some clever thinking and engineering to make this stuff all work.

BTW...

I've done some research on the history of Brush-less electric permanent magnet motors and Li-Ion batteries (taken out of Kodak instant cameras!) working in concert, and how they found their way into R/C aircraft, possibly way before this became the norm for Ecars and Hybrids. The R/C guys might have given us the template for future mobility land, sea and air, and were perhaps way ahead of their time....

[richardtavor]

Looks like a flying lawnmower to me.

[Preachin']

And what percentage of American families can afford something like that?

[READINABLUESTATE]

No wheels, not a car.

[RegulatorCountry]

What could go wrong?

Texting and flying. Poor visual spatial perception means screwing up in 3D not just on a flat plane, the possibilities for crashing just multiplied exponentially.

[CodeToad]

Lots of concepts these days but so far no productions.

[jiggyboy]

My sudden worries about the magnitude of the inevitable carnage and destruction from turning our country into a Flying Car Beta Test Site makes my worries about self-driving cars look like overwrought pearl-clutching.

[bgill]

Let it get tangled in power lines and see what happens.

Who should we root for this car or Amazon’s drones?

[MrBambaLaMamba]

Only ‘Green’politicians should be allowed to own/operate them.

[butlerweave]

A big trunk for tons of Explosives ?

[ridesthemiles]

It is NOT the 200 mph that is a problem. It is the sudden stop.