The first flying car prototypes were produced over a century ago. And yet here we are, 100+ years later and still no flying cars.
But as the New York Times article What is a Flying Car points out, the long term dream of flying cars continues to get closer:
That dream, most experts agree, is a long way from reality. But the idea is gathering steam. Dozens of companies are now building these aircraft, and three recently agreed to go public in deals that value them as high as $6 billion.
The New York Times likes writing about flying cars. Just last November, they had another article on flying cars.
Of course, flying cars have long been popular with the media.
Our favorite example is Smithsonian Magazine's 1955 article predicting nuclear powered flying cars would be common by 2000. What could possibly go wrong with lots of nuclear powered flying cars zipping around?
But as we said in our 2017 article Flying Cars May Finally Happen, non-nuclear flying cars may finally take off over the next decade.
But there's still a ways to go. As TechCrunch's The Air Taxi Market Prepares to Take Flight points out, "Electric air mobility is gaining elevation. But there’s going to be some turbulence ahead."
One of the companies covered in the NY Times articles is Kittyhawk. Their aircraft is shown in the YouTube video below.
