flying cars
Definition
Hypothetical or prototypical personal vehicles capable of both road travel and vertical flight, envisioned as the ultimate solution to urban congestion.
A perennial science-fiction trope representing futuristic transportation, often promised 'within a decade' since the 1950s but remaining elusive due to engineering, regulatory, and safety hurdles.
Emerging real-world eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft pitched by companies as the 'flying cars' of tomorrow.
Examples
Promised since the Jetsons era, flying cars remain the tech world's favorite broken promise.
In a world of self-driving taxis, flying cars would just mean aerial fender-benders over rush hour.
My startup's flying cars solve traffic—by making investors fly into a panic over the prototype's crash rate.
Forget highways; with flying cars, parking becomes a game of three-dimensional Tetris.