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And may increase it. The entire low level ongoing effort to build a flying car (Terrafugia, Moller, etc) is basically driven by no market and no common sense,

• eli_gottlieb 12y ago
  Well yeah, but welcome to humanity. We're at our best when we do what we dream of, as what's "realistic" and "feasible" is almost always just code for "the same crappy thing that happened yesterday happening again tomorrow because nobody made the effort to change it". Except then someone puts in the effort, fulfills their dreams, and the real world winds up totally different from the expected world in which those people never acted.
• BrandonMarc 12y ago
  At least Terrafugia has a functioning prototype (i.e. it actually flies, rather than a 36-inch tethered hover), as well as orders. A separate effort which actually makes a bit more sense and has more of a market is the iTec Maverick [1] - more of a flying dune buggy using a parasail as the "wing", but targeting a wholly different market (the Transition is aimed at wealthy pilots in wealthy countries with streets, airports, etc, whereas the Maverick is - in part - aimed at villagers living in remote jungles, far removed from civilization). -------------------- [1] http://mavericklsa.com/ http://mavericklsa.com/