Re:Terrafugia's flying car model has been approved for tests...
by jobu on Monday December 21, 2015 @09:28AM
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Their promotional video shows this vehicle as a VTOL aircraft, so theoretically you could drive to a parking lot and go : https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=188&v=wHJTZ7k0BX...
However, even if they do get the VTOL working successfully (many others have failed) there will likely be some regulatory hurdles for flying out of a neighborhood. That isn't unheard of though. There are suburban communities built around small airports with direct access to the runways (similar to golf course communities).
Honestly, I hope we one day have a solution for some Quadcopter-style of private transportation (best: electric). That would make completely new styles of cities possible as streets would be only used to walk around. Endless nature, no streets in it... just houses with Quadcopters on their roofs, ready to fly away... (still hope they have some kind of crash avoidance system, so flying to the next big time baseball match doesn't result in many deaths each time).