Will the Terrafugia flying car be the future of transportation?

[Astronuc]

There once was a thread, a short thread, about a flying car.

https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/flying-car.413351/

Move forward 11 years, and a Flying car completes test flight between airports

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57651843

A prototype flying car has completed a 35-minute flight between international airports in Nitra and Bratislava, Slovakia.
The hybrid car-aircraft, AirCar, is equipped with a BMW engine and runs on regular petrol-pump fuel.
Its creator, Prof Stefan Klein, said it could fly about 1,000km (600 miles), at a height of 8,200ft (2,500m), and had clocked up 40 hours in the air so far.
It takes two minutes and 15 seconds to transform from car into aircraft.

I wonder if they've tested in down draft, or perhaps it's a fair weather vehicle. I wonder if it comes in convertible option. Well, I guess it is a convertible of sorts.

Terrafugia is apparently still a thing ( https://terrafugia.com/ ), although maybe it was - https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericte...-flying-car-was-faa-approved/?sh=20ac51472b3a

Two sources with knowledge of the situation say that roughly 80 to 100 employees at the company’s headquarters in Woburn, Mass., have been let go, and that Terrafugia’s intellectual property and further development of the Transition, a light sport airplane designed to be drivable on roads, are being moved to China by owner Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, which bought the company in 2017.

Peter Schmidt, co-founder and COO of the Boston-based hybrid VTOL aircraft startup Transcend Air, says he heard from ex-Terrafugia employees and a Terrafugia supplier that “over 100 people were walked off [Terrafugia’s campus] and told there would be arrangements made so they could retrieve their stuff.”

 

[jedishrfu]

Here is the original supercar (all those others are fakes) from a 1961-2 British TV show shown in the US too:

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I hear the electric flying cars are incredible but have a very limited range due to the extension cord.

 

[jedishrfu]

The battery operated ones fly longer especially if you replaceable spares in your luggage.

I’m holding out for the nuclear fusion models that will scoop fuel out of the air.