I've seen plenty of working flying cars since the late 90's.

Word to the media: don't bother us with this shit until they have a working idea on how to monitor and regulate the shit so we can all have flying cars and not just one dude's stupid prototype. The hard thing isn't making a car that can fly. That shit is relatively easy. The hard part is figuring out how air traffic would work if everyone was up there. It's already a PITA and there aren't a helluva lot of planes compared to cars.

Calling this thing a "real life flying" car is generous. This thing just looks like a mock-up at best and it didn't appear to even have a driver/pilot during the demo.

This thing will be bad in the air and bad on the ground.

Please no flying cars. Please no. The jetsons made it look cool, but that was a cartoon made in the days before 9/11 and cell phones happened.

Now imagine some distracted driver, watching a tiktok while driving, and oops, they did another 9/11.

Now imagine that happens every week. Not because of terrorists, but because of idiots! WE HAVE A LOT OF IDIOTS IN THIS COUNTRY!!!!

......please no.

If that's a "real car" then my left testicle is a genuine mild Italian meatball.

America can't have 4-wheeled road-legal flying cars. 4-wheeled road legal cars must have airbags, but airbags are forbidden in aircraft.

EDIT: I stand corrected.

The last thing we need is flying cars, even if they do get a proper pilot's license. You don't exactly get air brakes while in the air, and at least in the USA, recently Elmo Turnip decided to cut flight safety...

It's a lightweight 3d printed exoskeleton of a car using drone like motors and fans. The journalist who went in person was not allowed to be close or watch someone get in or out of the vehicle. While in air it is pretty obvious there is no interior seating just what looks like 2 large fans on the bottom. To call this even a concept of a flying car is incorrect at best it's a custom drone.

I saw the article before somewhere on my newsfeed and didn't click on it. Until we get some kind of new type of technology, flying cars will always be planes or drone that kinda looks like a car.

the safety of the actual car is good enough for consumers

This is a revealing statement.

Ah there we go

Ha, it's total crap. I watched video news about it.

1. When I was a kid I used to think it would be cool to have flying cars. As an adult I think about all the jets and helicopters and drones that already fly over my home and how annoying they are. The amount of noise of a fleet of cars taking off out of the neighborhood would make in the morning would be absolutely unbearable.

2. Looking at the underside of this "car" shows there are no drive axles, wires or motors going to the wheels, making it just a weird-shaped helicopter with wheels for no reason.

3. This video looks very fake. Were there no witnesses in this demonstration?

4. As others have already mentioned, regulations. Air traffic is tightly-controlled, and for good reason. There aren't really any technical limitations to flying cars. Shit's just dangerous, especially by unqualified individuals and en masse.

5. There's no way this thing survives any sort of crash test.

Someone's 3D printer at home did some serious overtime there.

I've seen kites that looked more convincing. There are now some real, functional flying cars, although they are still far too expensive to be practical. This is not one of them.

Then, how about posing just a screeshot in a shitpost group or similar?

I can see it's little gocart tricycle wheels from here ahahahahahahahahahahahaha