Flying cars
John Brown is an editor of roadabletimes.com, which is a website for database of flying cars. He predicts that flying cars will not longer be a fantasy but actually a reality within the next 5 years…”a practical everyday flying car.” When you think about this it seems ridiculous to me. We are trying to get electric cars and hybrids to become everyday use in the next 5 years, let alone flying cars. Well I saw pictures and little descriptions of these 6 flying cars on msnbc.com that have slight potential to become more than a concept, and some of definitely more believable that there is a chance than others.
First instance, there is one that is called a Skycar and it is like a dune-buggy car that has a huge propeller on the rear and then a parasail for when you want to fly. This Skycar actually made a successful trip from London to Timbuktu, Mali recently. The car goes from 0 to 62 mph in 4.2 seconds, that’s good! It also can drive a top speed of 140 mph. When it flies, it can go 100 mph at top speed and if the engines were to fail midflight (hopefully not!) you can glide to safety with the parasail. Skycars are on sale for about $80,000 and will be on sale starting later this year. The Skycar seems like a pretty legit flying car, but where will you fly it? I don’t know if doesn’t seem that practical to me. I guess maybe I’d need more information. If our society is having a hard time considering hybrids and electric cars, will people really buy these flying cars? Especially for that price? We’ll see.