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Originally Posted by pl001
Sorry, I shouldn't have used the term "flying car". What I meant were small Vertical Takoff/Landing aircraft that would largely replace cars. Flying from driveway directly to destination. A rather terrifying prospect, considering the poor skills of the average driver.
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That is a solved problem.
NASA took care of it over a decade ago.
http://www.aeronautics.nasa.gov/events/chicago/hits.htm
Main problem is the General Aviation aircraft companies are only slightly less conservative, technology-wise, than corporate publishing. The biggest hardware advance they were willing to adopt from NASA' s '90's GENERAL AVIATION INITIATIVE was to move GA planes from '50's propulsion technology to '60's technology.
Which is why it is falling to outsiders to develop even flying taxis, to say nothing of the "flying car".