You don’t need a license to fly an Ultralight or Experimental craft. The lack of this requirement has proven to be just fine. Flying cars will be fine.
Because they can only weigh a maximum of 255 lbs to be considered an ultra light and can only have a maximum fuel capacity of 5 gallons, if you crash one of those you will die but you won’t kill someone else unless you directly fly into them. Not to mention that because their flight ceiling is so low there’s not a lot of risk for potential collisions, any motor issues will have the plane glide safely out of the sky.
A flying car would be significantly heavier and way more dangerous.
Flying cars don’t exist because they are incredibly dangerous and create the potential for massive death tolls that regular cars just don’t have the same risk factors for. It has nothing to do with the technology not existing. The technology has been there for 60 years. There just isn’t a reason to make one and it’s not solving a problem that doesn’t already have a solution.
If your car has a mechanical issue, it just dies and you can move over to the side of the road. If a flying car fails you fall out of the sky and just die.
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u/Rich_Instance 1d ago edited 1d ago
God forbid some company makes a cool flying car
Edit: y'all really make powder kegs outta nothing