Retro Tech: Flying Cars




No matter what year, the idea of flying vehicles helps cement our sense of when the future begins. I’m taking a look at everything flying – from cars to …

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  1. I guess flying cars are still not mainstream because the bigger necessity of the present is to shift from fossil fuel and CO2 emissions rather than decongest traffic by taking to the air. Once we solve this problem in the next 30 years, maybe flying cars would be the new normal.

  2. Imagine the job of an air traffic controller. Consider how normal it is to see a car accident now translate that to several thousand pounds regularly plummeting from the sky in urban areas. These are the reasons there will never be flying cars even if everything else became practical.

  3. You talked about hoverboards, but totally left out and disregarded the Lexus hoverboard from 5 years ago. Come on!

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  5. that last flying board would be helpful for firefighters, and many others, like at an accident on the crowded highway, or city. Where helicopter would be unapplicable.

  6. I think that to create flying cars and skateboards you need a new technology that we still do not know, such as anti-gravity materials. As for propulsion, gas or fuel take up a lot of space and are expensive. NASA will surely discover these technologies one day and apply them to everyday life like many other inventions.

  7. I appreciate when people say "this thing happens in the united states'" and "…in America" …
    I know you hate me saying america is a continent n not a country, but this thing is literally thing which happens only in USA.
    It is like saying Asia for just Japan.

  8. Take a good look at everyone driving, or failing to do so. Now put them hundreds, maybe thousands of feet in the air. These things would have to be 100% automated, and even then the chance of catastrophic failure, the horrible inefficiency, the probable threat to wildlife (I’ve hit birds with my ground-loving truck), would make flying cars such a bad thing.

    While I’m all for flying emergency response vehicles, I NEVER want to see flying cars.

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