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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. Rules for aircraft are much stricter by warewolfsmith · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You can drive with a bent fender, but if you bend an aircraft it is instantly grounded until repaired, this may entail x-raying the superstructure etc. So a small bingle in a flying car means it instantly becomes just a car until repaired and approved for flight. Personally I cant see flying cars becoming a reality any time soon.

  3. Re:Perhaps misnamed by The+Grim+Reefer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Precisely. Driving out of town to get to the nearest airfield usually mean you're out of traffic and thus the whole thing is mute.

    Of course it's mute. Who wants a back-talking flying car?

  4. Deja vu... by dpbsmith · · Score: 5, Informative

    Googling on 'site:slashdot.org "flying car"' turns up numerous references to flying cars, ALL in very advanced stages of development and ready for production, flying your way soon.

    Terrafugia... "Flying Car Passes First Flight Test..."

    PAL-V One, "Finally, a flying car for the masses" made its first maiden flight...

    M400 flying car "more economical than SUV"...

    "the SkyCar, an invention by Moller International" was to be "Ready by end of year." And that year was 1999.

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