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Originally Posted by Flacker
Never is a very long time.
Granted there will likely be no flying cars that are hand controlled. With computer controlled guidance it is plausible.
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Well, never gonna happen in our lifetime.
Self-guided cars are coming our way and I can see them becoming part of our transportation system in the next couple of decades (although it will be a cold day in hell before I let go control of my car!). Even then, putting a car in the air brings a lot of new variables and dangers into the equation. Even just from a basic mechanical point of view, these things would have zero room for error. Your car dies on a road, you roll to a stop. Your car dies in the sky, you're dead along with whoever is on the ground. Just think of how much maintenance an airplane needs to be able to fly.