in another 10 years the common mode of travel would be flying cars.?

Question

probably there maybe more aerial accidents than what is happening now. is such a prediction likely - regarding the flying cars being the mode of travel in 10 years time?
would prefer a scientist or automobile techincian or someone involved in a similar project answer my question.

Answer 1

i can't picture flying cars in 10 years... but cars that can hover would be more believable... i mean flying cars would be very expensive, they do have the technology to make flying cars right now, too much money and they wouldn't sell.

Answer 2

I'm not a scientist or an automobile technician, but I seriously find it hard to believe that flying cars will ever be our main means of travel. I graduated high school 11 years ago and when I was in middle school, everyone was so excited that in 10 years we will all be traveling by flying cars. Well, it's been well over 10 years since then, and it hasn't happened. I cannot believe people are actually still talking about this and people still actually believe it will happen. When? In another 10 years? IF they ever do come up with a flying car, I seriously doubt that will be how everyone starts traveling. I'm sure lots of people will still feel much safer traveling on ground, just like it has been for years and will be for years to come. Besides, like you said, it would most likely cause more aerial accidents anyway, so why even bother?

Answer 3

I saw an article in Popular Mechanics a couple of years ago and they already have a flying car designed, but it said it would not be ready for production for at least 15 years, so you are looking at a time factor of at least 20 years, because the Federal Government will have to get involved on the safety side of everything. Everything has got to be tested before it can be put on the public market, not to mention that the article I read also said that the operation of this craft would require a pilot's license, and then there is the cost of such a unit. Oh, pertaining to what one of the other answerer's had said about fuel problems, this unit is going to be computer operated and flies by means of electric fans and shudders. 10 years is not a practical deadline for this. This model they were showing could take off in the length of a driveway. Almost a vertical takeoff.

Answer 4

We've been promised flying cars for years. I don't think we will see them for at least another 100 years.

I don't think the automobile will change very much in the next 10 years.

You might see a few more flex fuel vehicles and a few more hybrids.

I don't think there will be any hydrogen fuel cell cars by that time. There won't be a infrastructure to refuel them yet.

The market drives what we are driving what types of cars the auto makers make available to us. Flying cars would be too expensive, even with the technology available in 10 years. If a flying car costs more than an airplane, people will buy the airplane.

I see the cars available to us being a little cleaner, a little more fuel efficient, a little more powerful, a little safer, and a little more expensive.

Answer 5

I don't think so... First of all, such cars would require much more fuel and in the next 10 years, oil prices won't be any less then they are right now. Probably much more higher.

On the other hand, common usage of passenger cars with flying ability would require a breakthrough in the current car industry. Flying and producing cars are just two different industries and they can't merge to produce a flying car within 10 or twenty years.

Answer 6

People have been trying to develop flying cars since cars were originally developed. No one has come close. Planes need long runways for takeoff and landing. It is not practical to drive miles to an airport, fly to another airport, drive to a destination.
Helicopters work. But they are expensive, require clear landing zones, dangerous because of the huge blades, and very difficult to fly.
We have not found a way to overcome gravity, which is the limiting factor.
We would need a perfect crash avoidance system to allow millions of vehicles in the air at the same time. We do not have such a system.

Answer 7

The FAA has stated that unless some way can be found to control such craft like commercial planes are controlled there will be no flying cars certified to fly. Unless you fly them like an airplane on a predetermined route at a predetermined time. There will be no hoping into your flying car and going to the mall. It would be absolute disaster if there were thousands of flying cars crashing into one another and then slamming into whatever was beneath them. Until the control problem is worked out flying cars will remain grounded as unsafe for public use.

Answer 8

I think Molt Taylor said that about 1949. He even built one. If any body remembers the Bob Cummings TV show of the '50s, he was shown flying one at the beginning of the show. Read all about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerocar

Answer 9

yes its true.. i read it in Popular science in 1956. They said in ten years...opps