Hover Cars are getting closer...

[Wtiberon]

Remeber those hovercars from science fiction movies like Bladerunner...well they are so close we can almost taste em.

The Moller Skycar is a single pilot vehicle that both drives along the ground and can lift off reaching speeds of 350 mph. Supposedly it will be in full scale production in 2007 and will come with automatic features that allows you to push a couple buttons and sit back and enjoy the ride. Sorry no link I got this from a magazine.

[dudemanjack]

Marty: "Hey Doc you better back up or we won't have enough road to hit 88."

Doc: "Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads."

[Spec]

The only reason I am for that is that it will reduce traffic. I love to drive and want to keep on driving. I hate to be a passenger in a car so you can imagine that sitting back and being driven is not my thing...

Spec.

[Japher]

My friend is working on that "car".

[Japher]

flying car

The really neat thing about it is the rotary engine

[Elok]

I remember reading once, in a video game magazine, the one disadvantage of such a contrivance: what do you do when the thing runs out of fuel? In a car, it's just a matter of pushing it along to the nearest station; in a hovercraft...

"scrrrrrape, scrrrrrape, (muffled swear words, grunts), scrrrrrape..."

[My Wife Hates CIV]

HA! not for some time i bet. a good number of people can just manage to drive a car without killing themselfs. now you're going to ask them them hover?!?

i'll go so far as to say you'll never see them. not for private use like todays basic car anyway.

[rah]

Not really a problem. Instead of a flashing light saying low on fuel, just design it to start a controlled decrease in power when a certain threashold of fuel is reached.

[Spec]

Originally posted by Japher
flying car

The really neat thing about it is the rotary engine

Dont I know it.....dont I know it!! IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE!! NO! IT'S A FLYING RX-7!!!

[Spiffor]

I highly doubt we'd see such a car hit the stores anytime soon. I remember hearing back in 1992 how 2001 would be filled of flying cars
Such a thing requires huge amount of investments both to make one and to make it function. It will have a collective/military/corporation's use before being sold for the individual.

As long as I don't see the military using some prototypes of those, or a big corporation boasting with them, I won't even imagine riding one one day.

[ixnay]

Ooh, when I get this I'll park it in my garage next to my Segway.

[Japher]

Such a thing requires huge amount of investments both to make one and to make it function. It will have a collective/military/corporation's use before being sold for the individual.

The projected cost that I heard was that the public would be able to purchase it at a sticker price equal to a luxury car ($40,000). Also, from what I hear, is that it's not as far fetched as you may think.

[My Wife Hates CIV]

can you imagine what insurance would cost!!!!!

[rah]

Or the hovercar version of "street racing"

[Az]

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