Russian Defense Company Demos A One-Person Flying Car (futurism.com)

An anonymous reader quotes Futurism: Russian defense company Kalashnikov has revealed their single-person flying car... As reported by Popular Mechanics, its body consists of a simple metal frame with a set of eight rotors used to lift it off the ground. A pair of joysticks are used to control the craft, while a set batteries found beneath the rider's seat provide the necessary power... Using electricity makes it lighter than a craft that relies on gasoline or a diesel engine, but as noted by DefenseNews, the batteries probably only enable it to fly for about 30 minutes before it needs to land.
There's video footage on YouTube of the flying craft lifting off.

Comments

Well...

[hcs_$reboot]

it's a drone! Big enough to carry a human being.

Re:"Car"

[sittingnut]

word "car" comes from word "carriage", as in wheeled horse drawn people transporting carriage.
it went from "carriage" (meaning a horse drawn carriage), to "motor carriage", to "motor car", to "car".

since we already accept concept of cars without wheels(which is a more solid objection based on word origin), there is nothing "wrong" with referring to this as a "car".

Nice try

[Errol backfiring]

Apart from the vertical take-off feature, a simple gyroplane would:

• be cheaper
• be easier to handle
• be safer
• be easier to transport (take the rotor blades off)
• be able to lift more
• have a greater range
• be more efficient

But the only drawback is that, as it is an existing type of aircraft, nobody would call it a flying car.