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A Production-Ready Flying Car Is Coming This Month

Posted by Soulskill on from the please-nobody-drive/fly-one-near-me dept.

cartechboy writes It's 2014. Where the heck are our flying cars? We were promised flying cars. We should be living like The Jetsons, right? Well, we aren't, but we are about to take one step closer: a production-ready flying car is debuting this month. Slovakia's Aeromobil is planning to unveil its "Flying Roadster" at the Pioneers Festival in Vienna, Austria on October 29. The latest iteration is called the Aeromobil 3.0, and work on it dates back to 1990. The Aeromobil 2.5 prototype made its first flight about a year ago. The Aeromobil transforms from plane to car by folding its wings behind the cockpit. Supposedly, the Aerobmoil will fit in a standard parking spot and run on pump gas. In less than a month, our dreams could become a reality.

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  1. You mean our nightmare could become a reality by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In case you don't drive much, its already too scary with cars on the ground. Can you imagine some of these idiots flying around? The horrendous crashes? Care to think about what it would be like when someone careens into the top floor of an office building and explodes into a fireball? Thankfully flying tech has not progressed to reality.

    1. Re:You mean our nightmare could become a reality by FreeRadicalX · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Actually it prevents a shit ton of crashes.

  2. Seen this before. by rmdingler · · Score: 4, Insightful
    It looks kind of like your average multipurpose tool.

    Sure, it does both both things.

    Just not as good as individual tools it replaces.

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  3. Perhaps misnamed by MouseR · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This isn't so much of a flying car as it is a drivable plane.

  4. Pipe Dreams by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Bet you'll not see this in the US any time soon. I wonder what its crash test ratings would look like.

    It could be licensed like an experimental aircraft.

    But... "I'll believe it when I see it."

    Folks, we have heard this before, and "flying cars" have been around since the 50's. It's not practical in any sense of the word. Blade Runner is a fantasy that will not be realized for many, many years. It this point in time, "flying cars" solve no problems and create man oth

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