Technology

The vehicle, certified for airworthiness and flight-tested over 170 hours with more than 500 takeoffs and landings, is now headed for mass production.

Jesus fuck please tell me that's a typo and they left some zeros off. Your average commercial pilot has more than that before any airline is even willing to consider hiring them, that is absolutely not sufficient testing.

Still, early adopters may face bureaucratic turbulence. Potential buyers must be both licensed drivers and certified pilots.

No shit. And that is never going to change, becoming a certified pilot is a lot fuckin harder than getting a driver's license, and for very good reasons. If some BMW-driving cunt can't even be arsed to use his turn signal do you really want to ease the "bureaucratic turbulence" just so he can fuck up and crash into a packed airliner? These things still have to use runways, the people flying them still need to know how to behave themselves at airports, how to identify and avoid restricted airspace, how to communicate with ATC and how to behave if (let's be honest, when) they get Intercepted.

And all of this so you can have a car that's worse at being a car, and an airplane that's worse at being an airplane, but hey at least you won't have to book a rental car at your destination airport, which I remind you they still have to use.

I hope its a popular buy among all our billionaires.

We have had helicoptors for all these decades

So it's a small plane then?

I swear I saw this on TV like 20 years ago, it's a stupid idea, if I wanted a plane I would buy a plane and then drive to the airport in my car, attempting to combine the two technologies just makes both of them worse.

Mass-Produced

I want to see these masses who can pay the million :)

I feel like "mass-produced" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Also, insurance is going to be insane.

Give me a intercity train or intercity tram any day.

It’s called a plane.

It’s not a flying car. It’s an airplane.

Seen this like 10 years ago lol

“The AirCar fulfills a lifelong dream to bring the freedom of flight into the hands of everyday people.”

The price? Between $800,000 and $1 million, depending on specs.

a plane. A flying car is called a plane.

That's not very expensiv...

Oh just like they did 5yrs ago every 5 years since the invention of powered flight

Damn, we really got flying cars before

1. GTA 6
2. Elder Scrolls 6
3. Half Life 3 (but barely? Hopefully?)

Yeah, I too once thought flying cars were the best idea since sliced bread. I've since grown up and realized that they're just airplanes with extra steps, cause it's not like you're ever going to be able to land it on a highway or whatever. It will always be cheaper to just buy an airplane and a car and use one to get to the other.

There are street legal autogyros that are a lot cheaper and make more sense as a crossover vehicle

https://youtu.be/8VKfqzmLohM

No thank you, I'll take a drone cab over this any day.

I don't trust must drivers on roads, much less the air. No good will come of this.

Or you could buy a Skyhawk, three Toyota Camrys and fuel for a year.

Sweet. We need more ways for the 1% to kill themselves.

Okay I will admit it was impressive to see how they solved where to stow the wings and essentially shrink the airplane footprint to a long car footprint, but who is this for? Who out there has $1mil to blow and is like, "I have to drive directly from the tarmac to my hotel"?

This thing needs 300m of runway in its airplane form to get airborne, so forget city or even suburban takeoffs. And you're not going to just drive this thing around. At the end of the day, this is still a (very fancy) plane that drives.

Apart from all the discussion regarding how stupid this is, how the fuck would this even fit on a road? I doubt the wings would be durable enough if they were retractable. This shit would take up 2 lanes and fuck up any and all intersections. And as a added bonus, it would fuck with everyone elses perception who are used to the distances you keep away from regular vehicles when theyre turning in front of you. This shitheap wouldnt even make it to the airport because someone will probably misjudge the turn radius with the wings and fuck it up on the way there.