taxi of the future ;o)

costs a few quid too

http://www.firebox.com/index.html?dir=firebox&action=product&pid=415&src_t=sbk&src_id=skycar

Saw that 3 years ago too 😛

Seriusly if you like that sort of shityou should check http://www.gizmag.co.uk and http://www.newscientist.com weekly 🙂

The only problem I can see with that though is he got a lot of thrust but not a lot of aerofoils to keep it off the ground – it’s more of a small plane than a hover car tbh 🙁

There is a true hover car out there, more of a drone though as it has to be tethered down in case of strong winds sending it off course and propelling into somenes face 😛

@Deicist wrote:

That things never going to be on sale. Moller has been developing skycars for 40 years and the most any of his prototypes have done is hover 15 feet off the ground. He’s a con man.

M400 Flight Test Plans

Presently all test flights of the M400 Skycar employ a safety tether from above to protect the vehicle from catastrophic failure. Certainly during these early tests there are a number of failure modes with an aircraft that has 24 microprocessors and 25,000 lines of machine language software code. Additional factors that make a tether mandatory include:

• We are test flying within the Davis City Limits
• We presently have only one M400 aircraft
• Our insurance will go up substantially when the tether is not used while flying over land

We plan to begin untethered flights when we have at least one additional M400 nearing completion. All flights will occur over a specially constructed lake. This lake is part of the Milk Farm development, a commercial 60-acre development underway near the city of Dixon in California on Interstate 80. The lake will have an area of 5 to 6 acres and will be approximately 10 feet deep with a silt, rock free bottom. Most flights will occur at less than 50 feet altitude and will incorporate flotation gear attached to the Skycar

Methinks D is right??? 😯

Hover cars/ flying cars are nothing without the infrastructure. Even if a viable one did exist, you’d be severely limited as to where you could fly it.

There’d probably be more mileage (no pun intended) in some kind of aqua-car these days. A dozen ramps in and out of the water along the Thames would be all that was needed. Canary Wharf to Battersea would probably take about the same amount of time, but it’d be a much nicer journey.

“You’ll never guess who I ‘ad in the back of here last week… Only Aqua Marina from ‘Stingray’. Blaady ‘ell, she don’t shat up!”

@VicJameson wrote:

We have flying cars already, they’re callen planes 😕

Then again, isn’t it nice to combine the two?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2550902895914120566&q=aerocar