A little late indeed. If we ever do reach the point where we buzz around in flying cars, man are things going to be dicey. I just don't see society as a whole being anywhere near ready/responsible enough to do it. People are bad enough drivers on any given day, let alone pilots. I can't wait to see aviation get into the hands of "Joe Plumber". Even your most basic aircraft undergoes massive amounts of maintenance every 4000 hrs of flight time or so.
On top of that, do we have to establish hiways in the sky? How do we mark boundaries? What happens when the first one falls out of the sky and right through someones roof? Drunk flying? Will people have to file flight plans each day they go for a rip?
Even if they do develop affordable flying cars, so much redtape and safety concerns is going to make it a long ways off from reality.
Don't get me wrong, I'd LOVE one but how realistic is it even in our childrens lifetime?
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