New Flying Car Design Unveiled

Posted by samzenpus on Monday May 6, 2013 @06:45AM from the better-late-than-never dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Terrafugia has unveiled plans to build a semi-autonomous, hybrid-electric, vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicle for personal aviation. The new design, called TF-X, is in the works even as the company's first product, Transition, is still awaiting production because of technical and regulatory hurdles. Terrafugia's founder says the goal of TF-X, if it can get past the safety issues in both aviation and automotive industries, is to 'open up personal aviation to all of humanity.' But it will have a lot of competition from companies including AgustaWestland, Pipistrel, and the stealthy Zee.Aero, all of which are working on vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles for consumers."

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Yeah. Now by MouseTheLuckyDog · 2013-05-06 06:47 · Score: 5, Funny

When I'm getting too old to safely drive one.
Re:Are they safe? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-06 06:54 · Score: 5, Funny

The DMV tests will ensure that all drivers are properly qualified to be in the sky.
2D is hard enough for some, 3D will be a disaster by kannibal_klown · 2013-05-06 07:17 · Score: 5, Insightful

Face it, most people have a hard enough time on a (relatively) 2 dimensional plane. Accidents all over the place. Now you have to worry about people coming from all 3 dimensions... forget about it.
Add to that, at least it is normally hard for someone to go through the side of a house unless the accident is really bad or they were driving really fast. Now anyone would be EASILY able to go through a roof.