Why don't we have flying cars in 2007?

Question

Contrary to the belief of science fiction novel writers, we do not have flying cars, laser beams or ANY such things in "their predicted future". Why is it so?

Answer 1

Well with flying cars you would be better off buying a helicopter for the price you would pay for a flying car. Plus we already have people that cant drive regular cars safely so I would assume that there would be more accidents and more deaths. Plus I dont think the fuel for a flying car would be any cheaper than what we are paying now, nor would we get the same miles per gallon. Now with laser beams we actually do have them, but they havent put them into effect yet. Although I was reading in a Popular Science magazine the FAA will start putting stationary laser beams at some of the most busiest airports in the country by next year as a missile defence system. The way it work is atoms are heated up to a super hot tamperature and shot out in a tight beam that will pulverise anything it hits. Some may argue that the laser beam has been around and been used since the mid 1900's when a man present this Idea to the government and was rejected not long after the man was found dead. People have said he was killed for fear that he would sell his idea to other countries. There is a video clip that shows that on one of the NASA's trips to space a UFO flying around the space shuttle and then all of a sudden you see this beam of light come from the Earth as if it were shot at the UFO. So laser beams around, Flying cars arent all that practical right now

Answer 2

Well , as you say ,it is fiction, it doesn't suppose to become reality. It is like a kind of projection of the future ,how you think the future is going to be, but if you ask a science fiction novel writer now what he think about the future he probably is going to tell you a novel like MAD MAX, where everything is destroy and we are going to live like in the stone age.
On the other hand things like flying cars are very difficult to do, first those are machines and machines are made by humans so they are not 100% sure they are not going to fail.
If you make a flying car it doesn't have anything to fly except for the engines, but what happen if the engine fails, contrary to the airplanes or helicopters if all engines fails or you run out of fuel.You still have the chance to land gliding with the airplane or auto rotating with the helicopter.there are a lot of regulations that you have to follow to construct a flying machine, you can not make a flying car and fly over the city just like that.Laser beams exist and enough powerfull to make a hole in an iron planch but of course it need a lot of power that you can not carry that big thing with you.
Regards

Answer 3

Flaying cars are highly improbable it would take A lot of work just to find places that aren't remote to even use them without fear of a major crush in case something went wrong and the other stuff is ether to expense at this time to mass produce or just not as good as people thought it would be. the other problem with fly cars is that every place they where used you would need an airborne police, people to regulate the cars and it's not as easy as the movies have it you can't just fly away when traffic is moving to slow you have to worry about other flying cars and other objects above you. plus if you did have an accident it would be a major thing much more then the accidents of today's cars

Answer 4

well, i know that the hover car has been invented, but i think that there are a lot more important things we have to do besides make things that look cool. There are so many problems with the country (rights and such) Also, it depends on the resources we need to make a flying opr hovering car, we may not have those resources or it may be bad for the ozone.

Answer 5

Well technically a hover car HAS been created but it isn't open to the public do to some of the tests that are still under go. So to answer your question, yes we do have flying cars, but not very good ones! :)

Answer 6

till capability components become countless the flying automobile theory will in no way quite "get off the floor" It takes plenty extra capability to enhance a automobile into the air then it does to easily push it down a street. on a similar time as a flying automobile might come into production that is going to in no way be available as transportation for the trouble-free guy yet extra as a plaything or status image of the wealthy.

Answer 7

uh...actually we do have these things.......they're just not available to the common people with no money ( like me T.T)

ps. about the flying cars, we have one person vehicles that can levitate off the ground about an inch i think....which still counts as flying

Answer 8

We do, they just only exist if your name is Harry Potter.