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The first flying car, 'Model A,' approved by the FAA and it's 100% electric
(www.usatoday.com)
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Flying car stories are like battery tech stories, always one around the corner that's going to revolutionize the industry. Just clickbait based on the glaring lack of technical details.
Anyway people can't avoid accidents in two dimensions, adding another dimension would make that orders of magnitude worse. The only way flying cars can work safely is 100% autopilot. They still can't get autopilots to work without incident in normal cars.
Don't forget that with batteries in particular we basically always design our devices to use up all that new capacity rather than having them just go longer without charging. If you could fit a modern Iphone battery into one from 2010 it would probably run all week without needing to recharge.
True, but gravity is a bitch.