Cars or Flying Cars

Who here prefers regular cars over flying cars. You have to admit that the experience we get from ground cars are a total different experience if they were flying cars. No traction, what would we do without that? Who thinks ground cars will be nothing but a story in the future?

 

I think a flying car is going to be very hard to control, like flying one of those little remote control helicopters. I would love to see some crazy technology that let's me fly around town...I would definitely sign up for a test drive.

 

Depends on location. Flying cars - only on the track (still need to protect human life) I do not think it is necessary to endanger the lives of people with high speed .. drive smart! Also, do not drive if you have consumed alcohol

 

The idea of having flying cars have been around for long, long years, starting with the cartoons many of us have watched on TV.

But far beyond anyone's preference, and having already prototype models to experiment, I think governments will delay many years before considering to have flying cars circulating because they would be hard to regulate and if we have so many road accidents, go an figure with flying vehicles.

Personally I prefer public transportation than driving (or flying) myself

 

just be sensible when driving! Is there a place for everything

 

I think cars will soon be delegated to the airspace only. If we could cheaply fly our cars, it would be so much easier, and safer. Of course, accidents would probably be much more dangerous, as the car would fall from the sky after a wreck. That's two impacts to worry about!

 

There won't be flying cars until a means can be found for negating the effects of gravity.

 

Um I think I would prefer ground cars as opposed to flying cars, since there are no roads to begin with in the sky, and I think an airplane is enough is we're talking about flying in the air so I'd stick to ground cars instead. The improvement that I want to see is an airplane being used commercially like cars for short distance travels like the same way a bus or train is used, but that's another topic.

And if those "sky cars" won't run on fuel, then you can be assured that a lot of those in the oil/fuel business will be against it.

 

To be fair, aside from take-off/landing, most airplanes fly up around 30,000 feet. In order to have a flying car be practical without having to have a pressurized cabin, you'd have to fly them much lower, so air traffic mixing with vehicle traffic wouldn't be that much of an issue.

 

Hmm you got a point there. But if ever flying cars will be invented in the future, I think there will be no need anymore for wheels, and just make that "wing" that we see in airplanes. Or put some rotor blades on the roof of the car, lol but it would be a bit dangerous for cars to have those blades.

 

I do think flying cars is a cool and unique idea but I wonder if they took the place of cars today how would they manage the traffic in the air and wouldn't there be a tad too much accidents and wouldn't that make our fuel crisis even worse since jet engines are pretty greedy... It would be great if we could sort these problems but I dont think thats happening anytime soon...

 

I never knew that these things have been invented already. The PAL-V Flying Car looks cute, I hope that that flying car will be mainstream someday. It doesn't look like an airplane at all. The technology is really getting advanced nowadays, before this was only possible in the movies. But if someone wants to own a flying car, then they would have to learn how to fly a plane too, so to others, that might be discouraging because it takes time, effort, and money.

 

Yeah, but those are more like airplane/car hybrids. I think, until you've got vertical take-off capabilities, you won't truly have a flying car.

 

tommymac I do remember a car that had 4 jet engines instead of wheels and they rotated vertically much like a harrier jet and it took of vertically. I just can't put my finger on what its name was though....