Dave, I used to want one, until I realized that with flying cars, there won't be many fender-benders. Almost all accidents will be aircraft crashes with the usual results. You can't stop quickly, and your maneuvering options would be very limited in general, and in any kind of controlled traffic corridor especially. I doubt that drivers would be allowed to fly over houses and buildings- they'd be restricted to "air roads". So I'm thinking that even if the practical, affordable flying car were invented today (not those weird hybrids that are neither car nor airplane, and don't do either job very well), the masses would have to wait for a central control system that not only regulates the traffic in general, but the individual vehicles themselves. To be safe, there would have to be many layers of redundancy in the control computers. And/or all the cars themselves are networked. Fully autonomous control will probably be limited to emergency-only situations. No George Jetson for a while yet. That's why I'd settle for a jet-pack with reasonable range, that didn't weigh 300 lbs. :-) On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Dave Gary <davegary@me.com> wrote:
Chuck,
All my daughter ever asks about is where is her flying car?