Cars or Flying Cars

Flying cars is something Americans in particular are not ready for. We text while driving, talk on our phones while driving, eat while driving, and do many other things we shouldn't be doing while driving. Not to mention our road etiquette is non-existent. Now....if we're flying, under these circumstances, imagine the accidents. And most car accidents usually kill or injure the drivers. But flying car pile-ups would send flying debris all over the place that would or could kill many others.

 

Flying cars has always been a fantasy in many people's mind. I guess because then you can avoid traffic and there is really no structured way of travelling to wherever you want to go, it's just all relatively free and open, no boundaries. I think if a flying car was to be developed, it's actually just better off not being a car any-more as the shape and streamline capabilities of a car is not optimal for that. Maybe in the future we will have something like this though, it's still hard to grasp how that could come about but technology is progressing at an alarming rate.

 

I prefer normal cars over flying cars. I believe, even in the future, normal car exists forever. Introduction of flying cars make traffic blocks in the air too. So it's better to stay ground and let the aeroplanes fly freely.

 

Folks also forget though. Just like airplanes? That you take to vacation destinations? Have routes? Flying cars will need routes and pathways as well. To avoid buildings, telephone and electric poles, and of course we can't have people flying too high in the sky because of plane and chopper traffic. Also there has to be a fail-safe to avoid the occasional blimp or sky-writer. It won't be as easy and fancy free as it looks in the old Jetson's cartoon. Trust me.

 

If memory serves me right there has already been an attempt to produce a "flying car". It was an automobile with tricycle landing type wheels and the wings folded and or detached for the road mode of travel. Anyone out there remember It? It really did not get to the market place and I never found out what happened to that project. Obviously they failed or there would be fllying cars all over the place.

 

A flying car did exist and it was a combinitation of a car with tricycle landing gear. and two props. One in front of and another at the rear of the cabin called a "pusher engine". It came out in the mid to late sixties if my feeble memory serves me right. It never went into production though.

 

reply: I think flying cars will not be around for sometime on the market. Companies do have flying cars out there ,but they cost to much for the average consumer to purchase. We will have to just settle for cars that are still on the ground.

 

The obvious problem with flying cars, despite recklessness and idiocy of certain drivers, is a pretty dull one: gravity. In normal cars, if something goes wrong, you pull over and try to fix it. In a flying car, if something goes wrong, there's only one way - down.

That fact alone makes me doubt that we ever will see commercial application of flying cars for the average Joe, sure, the technology is there and we probably could make it cheap enough to make it affordable like current cars, but the problem of malfunctions or driving errors mid air still stand. As long as that problem isn't taken care of, I really don't see it happening.

 

I wonder how auto theft would work then though? I mean you'd have to park your car at some point. Like fly it into the garage, or park it on the street like everyone else. So I guess you could keep it in "hover mode" to avoid it being stolen?

 

Oh really, I did not know that, It's a wonder this has not been pushed further, because if this project was worked on from the 60's, we might have it now!

 

Actually I found a web cite that has photos of several models of flying cars that never made it to the production line. Flying Cars Pictures Gallery - Freaking News. Check it out you will be surprise how many there were.

 

I don't mean to disappoint you but flying vehicles ARE right around the corner and will soon be as common as automobiles. With highways and byways being as crowded as ther are world wide a flying vehicle is certainly on the near horizon. That time is just around the corner, you'll see.

 

Well I would love to fly cars but don't mind driving on the road staying on land. If we all were to be driving flying cars I'm sure there would be a lot more crashes anyway. It's going to take a lot of time for that to develop and succeed but I am seeing flying cars in the future even if we aren't going to be around to see them you can just get a sense that it would be created and people would laugh at us people in the past for driving on land .

 

It's fun to think about this, I remember watching some movies in the 90's and it seemed that by the year 2000 we would all be flying around all over the place. I don't think that flying cars will be seen anytime in near future. And if so it would take years and years to develope and control that kind of alternate traffic.

 

According to some of the articles I read it is not going to be as long as you think and in all probability it WILL happen in this lifetime. Check out the link.

 

I don't think we'll ever see flying cars for the average person, and that's a good thing! I can see it now, some people would have to be threatened with incarceration and fines to refrain from texting while flying, LOL.

Humanity just doesn't have the self-control and discipline for flying cars to be as commonplace as normal cars.

Luckily, the purchase cost, licensing, training, maintenance, storage, regulatory fees, and insurance would prove too much for the average person.

I do think we'll eventually see localized flying transport systems for the masses (instead of subways we'll get airways, etc.).

 

I would rather use a car than a flying car. Because flying cars can be very dangerous, and do you guys know how many horrible drivers are out there driving. So, imagine them using flying cars and crashing them into buildings. I don't think that flying cars are a good idea.

 

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I have serious reservations about the future of "flying cars". If and when that does come to pass I think there will be many safety problems to overcome. As it is the skys are over crowded now. Can you imagine flying cars and small planes all competing for the same air space. Add to that the wreckless pilots who fly these vehicles. It is dangerous enough on the roadways much less in the air and it is a long way down if you get into trouble.

 

aflying car would be utterly sick.....however i would say that the challenge here is that i think there would be a lot of accidents up in the sky.....unless they create some sort of driveway in the sky. Otherwise you would not be able to know whether there are other people approching. The logistics are way too many to make it possible anytime soon

 

I am not sure about flying cars, but the gyrocopter has always held a strange interest with me. Alas, I am too practical to invest in one.