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You're conflating car with automobile. Also you don't need any license as it is autonomous.

• superqd 8y ago
  I think I conflated them because they are synonymous :^) From Google: Definition of "car": a road vehicle, typically with four wheels, powered by an internal combustion engine and able to carry a small number of people. Definition of "automobile": a road vehicle, typically with four wheels, powered by an internal combustion engine and able to carry a small number of people.
  • notus 8y ago
    Popular usage has made them synonymous but the original definition of car that is being used here is not synonymous. Note there are elevator cars, train cars, etc. None of them are road vehicles with four wheels. A car is basically just a cart. Examples of this are words like decimate and awful where there is semantic drift.
    • superqd 8y ago
      Point taken. But still, the imagery of an automobile flying is what I've always thought of when I heard the phrase "flying car". Not a plane that can be driven.
      • notus 8y ago
        Yeah me too