It would be nice to have flying cars.

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It would be nice to have flying cars. Do you agree? When do you think that they will be available and mass produced and used on a large scale? Ever?

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    • Most people can't drive regular cars without messin up.
      Do you really think they would be better with flying cars?
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    • So then some idiot driver would run into your car....and then you'd fall to the ground? A two impact accident doesn't sound like fun to me.

      I do think it would be cool to have cars that move on a cushion of air - no tires to buy, no worries about potholes, less wear and tear on road surfaces and a smoother ride.

      When I was a kid I used to wonder why no one developed tracks in the middle of road lanes - you would get on the highway, program in where you wanted to go and a link would hook to your car and pull you along. Cars would move at the same speed so there would not be bottlenecks that backed up behind slow drivers. As cars would be separated by a dictated amount of space, speed could be quite high. Later I realized a magnetic system would work better than hooks...I had a healthy imagination.
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    • I hope that it is not too tough.
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  • Love to fly and the concept of flying cars spark me a lot
  • As if we didn't already have enough idiots who cannot manage safely to negotiate the two-dimensional environment of surface transport? I believe flying cars are the transport of the future and always will be!
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  • OK, I am about to admit something, but this is real. You can go over 90MPH in a 60MPH zone, be tailgated, and STILL be honked at and "flipped the bird" for going too slow.

    On HERE, some people stated some poor short sighted goals for traveling distance. The ONLY one I have heard that makes real sense is WELL KNOWN in california, though FEW follow it. I have heard schools, films, driving instructors, AND the police say this! TWO SECONDS AWAY! MANY stay 1 second or LESS away and supposedly reaction time is .75 seconds. That means that your chance of a collision with INCREDIBLY good brakes is near 100%. I have never heard of such good brakes put on a car. If you went 90MPH and stopped short, with brakes that good, you could likely die of internal bleeding OR, if you have no seatbelt, a concussion and severe lacerations from the glass! Cars are NOT made to handle that force!

    In MOST cases, with cars, you only have to worry about the CAR! With planes, like some boats, you have to worry about the WAKE also! You may have NO reference for the 2 second rule, though you can't simply stop, etc... Obviously, you have to be more aware. And some may say that you can go over and under, etc... But if MILLIONS are doing the same thing?.....

    Did you know that the faster you fly generally the higher you are to go, to a degree. And that you are limited down to as much as less than about 680MPH. Of course, there are probably a lot of other restrictions. The air traffic control is ALREADY a joke and heavily overwhelmed. Some pilots often have to take chances through other routes. There is one area, for example, that often has only ONE controller, and that controller has often been known to be asleep or otherwise unavailable. You would thnk that they would have at LEAST 3!

    Anyway, such problems are merely horrible if you have a half dozen planes an hour. If you have THOUSANDS happening in an hour, it would be a DISASTER!

    I would LOVE to have flying cars. Looking at it from a reasonable angle though, society and/or technology has to change. It is best that BOTH change! You can't reasonably expect such changes to take place within the next 40-70years! OH, we may get air cars before then, because society is so STUPID, but as it increases, it will get DANGEROUS!

    Steve
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    • I think that society and technology will adapt in a nearly perfectly timed fashion. Necessity is the mother of all invention?
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  • BTW do you realize that the first human controlled powered vehicle was created around 1769! 243 YEARS ago, and you still have KOOKS on the street! Humans have obviously been walking a LONG time, but they can't even track a stationary object that they first see from MANY yards away? They won't even try to watch people in a heavily trafficed place like an airport that is a popular hub, or like LAX? DON'T expect such people to do ANY better in the air!

    Steve
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    • We've got flying cars.

      They are called "planes".
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  • I think in 100 years, flying cars will be invented. I think it would be okay, but there won't be any more airplanes but though, no more traffic I guess.
  • Death rate would go up bigtime...everytimes something would go wrong at 5000 feets in the air....BOOM...you dead !

    I think I would stick to ground cars and let everyone else drive in the air, the highways would be empty and I would not risk death everytime I took my flying car lol
  • I am fairly certain that there are some flying cars that already exist (look for them on a search engine, I think they are fairly easily found). It is just a matter of having them look really nice, probably be a little safer (maybe, I'm not sure, they might be really safe already), and then being affordable and mass produced...
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