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[Shahrukh]

The Simpleton, on 15 July 2010 - 07:12 AM, said:

Whenever mankind is faced with a critical emergency, it comes up with an ingenious solution

Yup, we are better at cleaning up than keeping things clean.

rpgsearcherz, on 15 July 2010 - 04:05 PM, said:

I'm not sure about a bus like that but there is a car that runs on electricity now (battery) that gets 240 miles per charge and takes 8 hours to charge. It also goes up to 80 MPH, allowing it to go on major highways.

Nice! If we flying cars could go that way too, it would be very much practical. With charging stations scattered about, it would make a pretty practical solution. But how to beat gravity? Lifting requires a lot of force. Especially if we want a car that will fly higher than the building. Just hovering over the road won't be much different than current-road-rolling cars. Although, even that would look much cooler, have a much smoother drive, etc.

[Vistz]

If there is a possibility to integrate flying cars into society, I would probably be against it. First of all, the resources required to make sure this plan does not fail are immense. You need to think about what kind of "roads" they will use. Also, you need to think about how this will affect airplanes. Most likely, the flying cars will not interfere will airplanes because airplanes will be flying much higher. However, you might need to take into account for helicopters.

I feel like we could be spending our time more constructively than how to create flying cars.