This week, Dutch company Pal-V announced it
was putting its much-ballyhooed flying car on sale. The Pal-V is
actually more of a flying three-wheeled motorcycle than a flying car,
but the point is it's a street-legal vehicle than can become airborne.
So if you happen to have a spare $300,000 and 30 hours to devote to
earning your sport pilot license, you too can enjoy the flying car of
the future now.
The cost of the Pal-V may prove prohibitive for the average consumer,
but that’s okay, because the average consumer doesn’t need a flying
car, nor should they want one. Despite what we like to imagine about
flying cars freeing up traffic and lifting the smog away from our
fruited plains, and despite what films like Blade Runner, Back to the Future, and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang portrayed, airborne automobiles are not a practical means of transportation.
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