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For a different perspective, it's the difference between the kind of (pro-innovation) restrictions imposed on automobile companies versus those (anti-innovation

For a different perspective, it's the difference between the kind of (pro-innovation) restrictions imposed on automobile companies versus those (anti-innovation) ones imposed on aircraft companies: https://fee.org/articles/how-the-faa-is-keeping-flying-cars-in-science-fiction/ https://fee.org/articles/how-the-faa-is-keeping-flying-cars-...

awesome_dude 1y ago
There's a couple of problems with that. 1. For some reason it only talks in terms of the USA, there's a whole world of manufacturers that could have stepped up to create flying cars if the market was interested. 2. There was, for a very long time, a thing called a "microlight" which allowed people to own their own snap private air craft (although not generally VTOL)