We had some flying car — or, at least, flying taxi — news this morning.
I’ve seen startups trying to get the flying-car industry off the ground (pun intended) for as long as I’ve been doing this. So far, the industry hasn’t taken off (pun also fully intended) in part because the tech isn’t fully ready and in part because the airworthy craft that one can buy are very expensive.
I also had an expert tell me flying cars might never happen for a simple reason — we’d need a whole new regulatory system for safety. We’d need to prevent flying cars from hitting each other and commercial aircraft (and now, drones). I’d also assume there’d be no-fly zones over military bases and the like.
Obviously, no such system is in place or likely to be in place anytime soon.
But let’s say all those problems were solved and we had a “Back To The Future II” situation where people could pilot their own flying cars. Would you do it? Or is going airborne a bridge too far?
Sound off below.
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