Why aren't personal flying cars a thing yet. how long must we wait before the idealized future happens?

Why aren't personal flying cars a thing yet. how long must we wait before the idealized future happens?

They're called helicopters

People can barely drive on the ground. Why give them a third dimension to kill themselves in?

Self-driving cars will need to be perfected before we can even think of flying ones, and they'll probably be prohibitively expensive.

Because Americans thought it would be a great idea to fly planes into high rises. Now we can't have anything nice.

They exist, but they're expensive, and you must have a pilots license and runway to take off.

flying cars are extremely inefficient, self driving drones is a way better option

i've been thinking about it too. should still be too expensive for the foreseeable future though. the traffic is way past unbearable in the ground already.

>Americans thought it would be a great idea to fly planes into high rises

You mean Saudi's.

That's not an option. Even if you were rich and owned a private helicopter, you can't actually fly it to any stores or public buildings, making them useless.

>People can barely drive on the ground
Obviously ground vechiles won't disappear. The flying cars will require a stricter license with more harsh penalties for fuck ups. Ideally, it'll be for upper middle class only.

People are still afraid of nuclear power

this.

cars are inneficient as it is, and you need an extraordinary amount of energy to keep a 1ton object in the sky, why bother unless you really need it?

>self driving drones
What's stopping someone from overriding this and gaining manual control?

Because big cities are inefficient and telecommunications have made a big chunk of traveling redundant.

Practicality and price. Sure, you can build a flying car if you have ~$1 million to spend on it. You'd have to learn how to pilot it because brakes don't work when flying.

because people are barely competent enough to drive a regular car.

World is full of idiots who can't drive as it is. Sure as fuck wouldn't want to be flying around with them in the air.

Yup, imagine rush hour. It'd be a massacre.

Won't happen until we figure out some antigravity-like tech, that we can build cheaply enough. Everything we currently have that could possibly make something the size and shape of a car fly is horribly inefficient, loud, and dangerous.

Flying cars are completely impractical and will never be made ever. Anyone with two brain cells knows this.

Saudis, Merceders, Volvows... whatever.

this is the closest thing

Even if flying vehicles do happen, the cost of operating them will be astronomical.

The cost of operating just a small 2 passenger helicopter with no room for cargo is about $250 per hour. Unless we manage to find a more energy dense fuel source, I don't see it happening anytime soon.

>If I asked people what they wanted they would tell me flying horses
>t. Henry Ford

Why would you want flying cars? The fuel costs would be insane.

Flying cars is a problem of energy, not engineering. To keep a 2 tonne vehicle in the air for hours requires incredible amounts of energy, which our current energy sources cannot provide. Or well they can, since we have rocket fuel, but then you have the fuel problem.
How many tonnes of rocket fuel would you need just for a trip to the shop?
Compared to like a gallon of gasoline