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The World's First Mass-Produced Flying Car Is Here and It Costs $1 Million (www.zmescience.com)
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[โ€“] Telorand@reddthat.com 9 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Okay I will admit it was impressive to see how they solved where to stow the wings and essentially shrink the airplane footprint to a long car footprint, but who is this for? Who out there has $1mil to blow and is like, "I have to drive directly from the tarmac to my hotel"?

This thing needs 300m of runway in its airplane form to get airborne, so forget city or even suburban takeoffs. And you're not going to just drive this thing around. At the end of the day, this is still a (very fancy) plane that drives.

[โ€“] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

If it can handle a grass field, those are everywhere. OTOH, be cheaper and easier to fly a Cessna and spatter cars around at your destinations.