
Originally Posted by
Vajra
Look man, you can't have flying cars unless you make sure that you're able to fly above the troposphere (the atmospheric layer where weather occurs). Even planes experience turbulence and get struck by lightning, because they fly below the troposphere kay?
Magnetic hovering cars is the closest thing we'll have to flying cars, it just means they'd have to add electromagnetic objects under road pavements. Jet packs w/o protection to elements and ultra-violet radiation is a waste of time too, also going too high means reduced oxygen.
I'd also rather get in a car accident on the ground, rather than crashing into a flying car/airplane and falling to the ground only to disintegrate into vapor. At least in a ground car accident, I may have a better chance at surviving, rather than in a plane crash (which most people die from, especially if you fall from a real high altitude onto rock solid ground rather than water).
Also don't expect cities in the sky like in the Jetsons, it's all a waste of time, we'd never be able to build them because there's reduced oxygen if you go above the troposphere.