The part that struck me is this: > The major value in a flying car (as with supersonic) would not be in taking the same trips you do now, only a bit faster. In

The part that struck me is this: > The major value in a flying car (as with supersonic) would not be in taking the same trips you do now, only a bit faster. Instead, it would be in taking the trips you don’t take now, because they’re too inconvenient. A flying car would shrink your world, expanding the radius of what you would consider for a commute, a shopping trip, a visit to friends, a business meeting, or a weekend vacation. [...] increasing the effective radius for each of those trips increases the effective area open to you quadratically (doubling your travel radius means four times as many destinations). This very same effect happened on a small scale in the last ten years, when Uber/ride-sharing unlocked journeys that would have been impractical for many with regular taxis. Affordable flying cars would do the same, but with a much bigger sphere of impact.