When one can buy and operate the first flying car is still
open to question. Most people developing flying cars suggest that prices in the
range of a million to a half million will be common for the first production
model, putting them out of reach for most people. But, most also envision
flying cars to eventually come down in price to about fifty thousand dollars a
copy or even less, the cost of a typical luxury car such as a Lexus or BMW.
The first flying cars will probably be used by institutions
such as the military, law enforcement agencies, and commercial air tax
services. But the time may come, if the people developing these vehicles are
right, when one can roll one’s flying car out of the garage in the morning,
take off, and land at the office building air park in a matter of minutes. One
could take one’s air car to nearby vacation spots, the beach, or a rural
camping ground, in less than an hour. One can fly to a nearby city, say Washington
to New York or Houston
to Dallas, and bypass the hassle of
going to the air port. In the more
distant future, one can imagine that the air liner itself would be rendered
obsolete by flying cars with increasing range and speed. The state of personal
travel could be revolutionized in greater ways since the development of the
automobile.