[HarryHirsch]

Don't they use accounting tricks these days so they can keep their cash and then carry it to the stock market? This has the double advantage to keep the stock market inflated and compared to R&D where you risk product failure, the stock market is backstopped by the government and risk-free.

That's why we don't have flying cars. Instead of investment in core competencies we invest in the market.

[NikolaeVarius]

We have flying cars. They are called Helicopters.

[ertemplin]

You should take an intro flight lesson at a flight school. There's no way the majority of people could safely fly a personal aircraft in all weather conditions. Flying cars will have to be 100% dependent on a really good autopilot which hasn't been developed yet (which I guess is sort of the point you're trying to make).

[ConcernedCoder]

Have you SEEN the way most people drive?

[InitialLastName]

Ugh flying cars would require a whole different level of infrastructure to protect pedestrians and property from idiots/malignants in vehicles. We already have giant cement blocks and metal poles everywhere, now we need human-permeable cages.

[deelowe]

We don't have flying cars because it's a silly concept.