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Not likely. We’re more likely to see self-driven cars in the next 10-15 years than we are to see flying cars. There’s simply too much to consider. Resources, fuels, capabilities of the vehicles, legislation, teaching the populace to fly, etc. There’s too much socially and physically standing in our way for flying cars to be a reasonable goal for the next 12 years.

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is it really so hard to believe? we have airplanes and helicopters, why not individual flying machines? and if ‘teaching the populace to fly’ becomes a nuisance, what about self-driven flying cars? you type in a location in a GPS device, and it’s like a taxi ride to wherever. they’d just need to have some kind of sensors for other cars/buildings to avoid a collision. and $50,000 isn’t so unreasonable a pricetag for a flying car! i better start filling my piggy bank.

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Flying cars coming soon? Give me a break. Take a look at practically any cover from Popular Science magazine from about 1969 and learn how we are “a few years away” from riding your own dolphin to work in a dome-covered city under water. Or how monorail trains will revolutionize travel. Sure, they were all totally sincere. But some stuff just isn’t going to happen. We can barely handle cars going 65 to 80mph; last thing we need are drunk teens piloting flying vehicles.

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I think flying cars will only be mainstreamed when, as Zora mentioned, they well be fully-automated and humans are just in the passengers seat. As GPS technology is almost ancient and a complex air traffic control system would be relatively easy, the only missing link is the affordable flying car. DARPA’s already doing it on land, why can’t we do it in the air?

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this thing is kind of stupid… right know everybody is talking about pollution and then people start thinking about flying cars that probably need 5 times more gas than a usual car.

and please don’t say you won’t have to be stuck in traffic jams anymore… the traffic jams are usually in areas with a high population density and there it would be too dangerous having those things flying around…

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I think that a tested, complex traffic system without humans behind the wheel is not only very possible but in my opinion, inevitable. Regarding traffic, imagine having a couple layers of “road”, multiplying the amount of room from what it is today? Perhaps the amount of traffic would then come to some sort of equilibrium – that more people would start driving if traffic weren’t so bad, negating the positive effects of increased space – but at least if cars were driving themselves, there’d be fewer crashes and it would be much more efficient.