[berntb]

That should finally be close? Just add drones and self driving cars together. Soon we will have drones to deliver larger stuff than a small package from Amazon, so all the basic parts will be there.

Take a drone which can carry two people's weight and put a transparent box with a door on it. Add small wheels and some minimal parking capacity. Add a parachute for emergencies. (Note that there won't be a long educations for pilots. You just choose an address in Google Maps. If the drone can land vertically you might have to select a flat area at the destination, but it should be negotiated (along with parking fee) before going there.)

Instead of flying cars I'd rather have the cheap launch capacity of the Shuttle, which must have set some record when it was ~ two orders of a magnitude more expensive per pound than promised. :-( With so low launch costs we would finally get real giant space telescopes and an industrial infrastructure outside the atmosphere.

[kaybe]

You're describing a small autonomous helicopter. (We have lots of experience with the helicopter part at least.)

[berntb]

That was my explicit point in the first two sentences. The parts are here. Add a transparent box to a soon existing drone, add self-driving and you have a flying car.

Military drones fly themselves already. There will be routing systems for drones when e.g. Amazon starts to deliver packets to the home. And so on.

(But not necessarily helicopter. Note the "If the drone can land vertically". You could do this with a drone air plane. If the transparent box (passenger compartment) is moved automatically to/from an automated taxi to a drone, you have a point-to-point taxi service anywhere.)

Edit: The next logical step is a trailer home with solar energy -- move it anywhere with a taxi large helicopter airlift. Drones deliver groceries, while you enjoy the view from your mountain top, far from any roads.