You won't need a pilot's license to fly this flying car, available soon, and here's its first video

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Boats flying through the air, what could possibly go wrong?

(I know, I know, not the same thing, but I just couldn’t resist. Those drivers are up there with F1 in the “are they really really brave or just really really stupid” department)

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Does it come it come with that soundtrack to drown out the massive prop noise?

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Yeah, I think we’re heading for “rocketry” territory there… :stuck_out_tongue:

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That’s what I was thinking, until I saw that they remembered to squeeze in Token Happy Black Guy at the end. Then I wondered why they didn’t let him fly the new toy. Well, okay, I didn’t really wonder that.

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If George Jetson can’t use it to commute to his job at Spacely Sprockets, it ain’t a flying car.

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Good to know I was not the only one thinking that.

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Or you could buy one of these kits (in existence, not vaporware…)

http://www.hovercraft.com/content/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=195

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worrying about getting your head cut off, so bourgeois

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For a ground effect watercraft, I’m holding out for one of these: http://seaphantom.com

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Ah I get it.

So this is a “flying bus?”

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A friend of a friend bought a small hovercraft for use in grid square bagging- apparently there were a lot of unphotographed squares in the Wash.

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Yup. You thought the little toy drones make a lot of noise…

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Yeah, I got bored by then and had stopped the video, so it doesn’t count.

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Oh, I remember trips with those between Calais and Ramsgate in the 1970ies… Not really all that comfortable. Very loud and very bumpy when the waves hit the rubber skirt.

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I’d buy it if I could use Juicero pouches as fuel.

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I didn’t quite make it all the way through, I’m afraid.

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My thought exactly. It’s more like a No-Terrain Vehicle.

Also, I’m fairly certain the driver/pilot/fool at the controls must get wet as a salmon headed upstream during takeoffs and landings.

Thanks, but no. I’ll wait on the Jetsons car prototype I’ve wanted since age seven or eight.

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Going deaf might be preferable to listening to that “music”.

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Was gonna wade in to say exactly this. Gimme a pseudo-ekranoplan over that whirligig deathtrap any day.