Do We Have Flying Cars

It really is a real flying car.

Do we have flying cars. There is still so much to do before flying cars can become common. Four reasons we dont have flying carsyet. But the technology of the flying machine itself is just one part of a very complex system. A flying car in and of itself is actually not too thorny a problem.

None though measures up to the vehicles of sci fi. It might need a runway to take off and land but the prospect of being able to fly somewhere and continue the journey in a viable not too silly looking vehicle is exciting. What do driverless cars a concept so new we still get a red squiggly line every time we write the word driverless have to do with flying cars. At the beginning of a new century we may see the realization of a century old dream the merging of cars and planes into roadable aircraft.

The famous spinner in blade runner wasnt packing a jet turbine which powers the current moller skycar. Its a real flying car. Well it just so happens a company called terrafugia is working on the first driverless flying car. Cars which became affordable for the general population have allowed us to move farther away from cities and planes have cut travel time to faraway destinations considerably.

The flying car fits into any standard parking space uses regular gasoline and can be used in road traffic just like any other car and as a plane it can use any airport in the world but can also take off and land using any grass strip or paved surface just a few hundred meters long. The technology has come a long way mainly due to the rapid development of drones. How flying cars will work. Then theres the issue of the aircraft themselves.

Why dont we have is a popmech series explaining just why some of the technologies promised by science fiction have yet to become fact. Even teaching people not to be idiots in the use of same could theoretically be absorbed. The jetsons didnt lug a propeller around which is how the terrafugia transition stays aloft. Like ground based self driving cars.

Uber the dominant player trying to bring this industry to life insists that an electric vertical takeoff and landing e vtol aircraft is the way to go arguing that nothing else can match it for efficiency speed reliability safety and quietness. Well eventually but everything else that would be needed to support a society full of flying cars is another matter entirely.