Flying cars are a nightmare.

Ebikes are incredible. They are the most efficient form of transportation there is, they don't pollute, they are speedy, and they are compact!

Some downsides bikes have which flying cars would not:

- No weather protection

- Don't work (well, if at all) in snow, ice, heavy rains.

- Limited (or zero) safety features, despite going fast enough to cause injuries and using the same infrastructure as cars

- Limited speed and range

- 2d congestion limits throughput

We have flying cars today, we call them helicopters, and there's millions of reasons why we don't have them in every house.

Equivocating a helicopter a flying car is akin to calling a Model T a Tesla with FSD.

And those "millions" of reasons all boil down to R&D costs. Reliability, inspections, takeoff-to-landing autopilots (they exist - have existed for over a decade - for military helicopter drones), etc. are all cost issues which are slowly being worked on.

The progress could be faster if it didn't rely on angel and startup-style investments and the associated NDAs and trade secrets, but I don't expect that to happen in today's political environment.

And they've been dumped all over city sidewalks in California because it's a legal grey-area.

Problems with those I-can't-believe-they're-not-illegal littering rental services, not the bikes themselves, right? Surely people aren't buying ebikes and leaving them all over the sidewalks.

Mine lives in my garage. Rental bike programs are... Hmm

> Flying cars

Most drivers (in the US, at least) have trouble enough navigating two dimensions. Adding a third would undoubtedly make matters worse. Hell, just look at the safety record of private jets.

We have flying cars. They're called helicopters.

I think they're called airplanes. Are most helicopters capable of "taxi"-ing?

No, they're "flying" cars, not "rolling".