what year or how many years from now do you think flying(hovering) cars would appear?just a random question.?

Answer 1

I've read in New Scientist that some guy has noticed that you have to peg particle accelerators down very well indeed. He has reversed this idea and come up with a hovering thing that can run off the mains electricity.

However, for it to do any useful work, it would need the most amazing cooling system, so we may not be seeing it used all that soon.

Apparently, it's brakeing ability is amazing, but it's acceleration is not the best. the guy's proposed use for it was giant, wingless aeroplanes, great ships of the air.

If he ever gets it off the ground (pardon the pun), it will be of immense use to the space industry, so watch this space!

Answer 2

It sure would be nice wouldn't it? I'll say 50 years. But its not so unimaginable as you might think. 1st it has to be Strong & Light. The obvious solution is composites, most likely carbon fiber (like Burt Rutan's space vehicle). 2nd it won't fly like an airplane. It won't require wings. Propulsion will probably be via electric motors placed outboard of the central passenger compartment. The power source might be batteries. These would be under the passenger compartment with wires to each electric motor. The batteries don't exist yet. But battery research is revving up with the idea of using them in PHEVs, plug-in-hybrid-vehicles. PHEVs will be showing up in the salesroom within the next 5 years. TESLA has an all battery sports car and their battery, if you believe them, is the best battery out there. But even their battery wouldn't have what it takes to power a flying car, not yet anyway. The performance of electric vehiles like Tesla's is amazing. No production gasoline powered car can out accelerate it. The flying car will have to be all computer controlled both in how its controlled and how its navigated. But the problem to its creation is not that. The problem is its power source, the battery or whatever. The passenger won't need to know how to fly. She or he just gets in and tells it where it is to go and the computer does it all. GPS tracks it's location, the location of every other flying car and keeps them apart, all automatically. GPS also directs it's speed and flight path. Like the GPS direction screens in some cars now that tell the driver which way to turn. Only the flying cars system won't require a driver. { This assumes no new earth shattering technology, which might already exist, search Flying Triangles, there is a sight that tracks their appearences and they have been reported almost everywhere, always at night though, perhaps the Military already posess'es the technology}.

Answer 3

Flying (hovering) vehicles are not cars as such. They are airplanes for lack of a better term because they travel through the air. Flying (hovering) vehicles have already appeared. The Germans experimented with them back in the late 1930s/1940s. The U S Military and the Soviet Military experimented with hovering vehicles in the 1950s. They have never been of any practical value.

Flying (hovering) vehicles will "appear" in the general population when there is a demand for them and I can not see that happening for two reasons. They require a tremendous amount of energy and energy of any sort is in very short supply and getting shorter in supply. After having been around for more than 60 years they have shown no value to any one not even as a curiosity.

Answer 4

we cant even come up w/ an alternitive fuel source. though there is fling cars out now. it just hasnt hit the market yet. and hovering cars can be found in the everglades in FL. I also don't think the gov. is ready for a fling beatle to fly over the white house do you? everyone would have to become a pilot also.

Answer 5

When I was a kid growing up in the 80's, I thought that by the year 2000 there would be flying cars. So now maybe the year 3000.

Answer 6

Probably never; there are profound issues with physical laws. The requirements for flight and roadability are vastly different. In order to get reasonable fuel efficiency, an aircraft needs a significant wingspan; what do you do with them when you want to drive on the road? A chap named Moller has been playing with this idea for decades; his approach is to use ducted fans to provide lift. But the energy costs of doing this are horrendous as the fans cannot be large.

Answer 7

hover craft have been around for quite some time . not very precise in the steering department .
i drove a single seat one the size of a snowmobile around 1970 . lot of fun . concept was like an air boat everglade type .

Answer 8

never. been a dream since like 1954.

people can't even control or drive on roads, a 2 dimensional surface....you expect them to handle something in 3 dimensional....air? be more accidents than people getting where they are going.

you will see automated freeways if anything. as you drive onto the ramp the car and computer takes over and merges you into the flow.

Answer 9

Aint gunna happen, the things would use too much power/fuel just keeping them off the ground. Unless of course someone invents an antigravity gizmo that uses next to no power.

Answer 10

there's already a sort of hovercraft that floats about a couple of inches from the ground but truly flying cars are not possible right now.