Another Flying Car Tries to Get Your Hopes Up February 02, 2007
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From the wishful thinking department comes this video that claims that the X-Hawk flying car will be ready to take off by 2010. OK. Are you sure that's based on actual fact and not because you taught yourself how to make mediocre 3D videos on your home computer? Perhaps the X-Hawk can also help if a UFO attacks your city. Don't worry, if it doesn't work out SimCity 3000 will let you revert to an earlier saved game!
We all need to face the fact that flying cars aren't gonna be happening in any of our lifetimes. I'm sorry, I don't mean to piss on your campfire, but let's be realistic about this. –Adam Frucci
X-Hawk Flying Car to be Ready by 2010 [MobileMag]
Editor and Contributor | Martin Lynch
Contributor | Tamlin Magee
Comments
Maybe your right, maybe we won't have them in our lifetimes maybe...
But without people like this actually coming up with concepts and trying to get a prototype and get it out there we will never advance so in effect without companies like this one, there won't be flying cars in our children's lifetime...
That video is hilarious.
This is so lame. There is no place to store the fuel or put the engines. And at 1.5 to 3.5 million??? WTF? How many police cars or ambulances could you buy for that. Idiotic waste of time.
i knew you 'bloggers' had your head up your asses but now you're telling me what technology is going to be available in my lifetime? haha, how many engineering degrees do you have exactly?
Hold up, a "flying car" is still just another form of aviation, so while it is in fact entirely possible (if enough people dedicated enough time to it) the problem is it won't be "allowed" to happen. The governments can't just allow anybody to be taking to the air - it would be chaos and death all around.
The best we can hope for are specific ariel tracks with conveyance devices (like personal magnetic trains) strictly controlled in how they drive and where they go.
I'll stick to a nice set of burning rubber thanks ;)