Who's Gonna Buy This 'Flying Car' ???
 

http://www.moller.com/skycar/

I remember this company from years ago. The owner is on the Coast to Coast AM show tonight.

Fucker supposedly can do 1,500 miles at 300 mph or more. Runs on alcohol. Just a joystick for steering and stopping and turning.

i'd shit myself if i drove in that

Some guy in the 20s or 30s supposedly did the same thing.

wow i would love to get it

You pay for it, Ill drive it, or fly it, or whatever :winkwink:

NASA is working on flying cars. They estimate within 5 to 10 years it will be a reality. Everything will be computer controlled though so you won't actually be doing the flying.

Ya, but regulation is gonna be a bitch. Reason being is people can't pilot regular cars without fucking up shit left and right.

Can you imagine the assholes you meet on the highway now flying highly flammable sky vehicles?

Just what we need are alcoholic flying car pilots or gang members or crackheads flying around in the sky.

Nice, I always wanted to get flight license.

I guess the price is based on the amount of pre-purchase cars? If it gets down to 500k it might be worth it but you can get a copter for 100-200k now.

Flying should only become available for the elite. People who have a special license etc.. not the crackheads etc..

The roads are full. So the sky is not the limit. Let's get into the sky, plenty of space there.

The thing is, in the near future, their will be virtual tunnels in which you can fly.

if you notice most of the pics are 1-2 yrs old.........probably going to die on the vine :2 cents:

this is like 20years old model

already exist :)

this model is a failure
i saw it in a magazine when i was like 10y.old and now im 27,still no production.

Yup they already exist, what I mean is that they will be used more often by then.

At the moment airlines are using it for landing and stuff.

If I only have the money, then I'll buy all their models. :winkwink:

Would be a thrill to ride that thing.. :upsidedow

yea he's been working on it forever but he's finally getting it close to ready to go. I saw a show on it a few days ago and they expect the FCC to give it the approval within the next 5 years. So it will soon be a reality. A very expensive reality but at least it will finally be out there.

I love the idea of personal flying however I dont want people flying over my home.
I dont think the idea will ever fly...no pun intended.

hmmm, would be really cool, but I doubt anyone would be allowed to fly free in those, I bet there would be some hard restrictions on them

They gave this guy a plug on Mythbusters when they did the jetpack build show.

The one point they bring up about the personal flying device that stands true with "flying cars" as well is the failure factor. Are you going to trust some dipshit who can't remember to put gas in the car to put gas in the flying car? With rampant stupidity there are going to be flying cars stuck in roofs across north america .

Taliban would love to crash 5 of those into the white house.

I hope these never come to production. As cool as they are. Do you want some moron who shouldnt' be driving having a flight license?

Flight rage could get ugly.

Landings are done in "approach paths" wich change regurarly due to sound regulations over crowded area, etc....

There are no so called "virtual tunnels", flight plans are made from VOR to VOR or DME (beacons) although most routes always have the same flight plan.

no way in hell you'd catch me behind the wheel of one of those lol :1orglaugh

What year do you guys think flying cars will be a reality? Not necessarily when they'll go mainstream, but the earliest they could be a paid luxury like cars originally were.

I'm going to have to say 25 years.

I don't think anyone here will live to see the day when the average American has a flying car. Hopefully I am wrong though.

in the test flight photos, try hard to pretend you don't see the crane in the background and the cable holding the car in the air.

The ideal system would be one where an air car could just use a computer controlled anti-gravity energy field system.

In concept its really not very complex. All you need to do is find a charged particle mechanism to exert its own gravitational field to counteract the gravity field of the earth around the car and you'd be airborne instantly with minimal thrust which could be ion based like they use on the space probes.

You can read the theory behind this on this link:

http://suzuki-t.hp.infoseek.co.jp/pdf/bbe.pdf

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Osama have bought 4 to use with his mininukes

this is the cityhawk

looks more practical
http://www.roadabletimes.com/images/Citihawkhover.jpg

Why are you laughing? How do you think ET's fly around the Universe so easily?

Once you master gravitational propulsion and can wrap your vehicle with its own electromagnetic field you can literally do anything in terms of flight. You can make 90 degree turns at hyper space speeds and there's no g force effect on the interior cabin compartment.

Amazing how many people laugh at futuristic ideas.

100 years ago they said airplane flight wasn't possible either.

Idiot.

That's to keep it from slamming into the ground should it go out of control.

flying cars? omg what will these stupid payoff road construction companies do

u can buy shares in this company for 1.05

You guys want to see totally cool high tech vehicles?

Check out all these flying devices DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has developed for the CIA and DoD.

http://kai.iks-jena.de/bigb/mav.html

http://www.levitron.com/images/levitron.mpg

:) :) :)

nice link

amazing gadgets

stealing a car for a joy ride would take on a whole new meaning.

"From your garage to your destination, the M400 Skycar can cruise comfortably at 275 MPH (maximum speed of 375 MPH) and achieve up to 20 miles per gallon on clean burning, ethanol fuel."

375MPH and 20MPG sweeeeet

I want one of these.