Flying cars: If the future's not now, then who/what/where/when/why/how?

They promised us flying cars and instead of breaking their promise, they're probably going to deliver:

1. History of flying cars
2. Status of today's industry (How many players; who are the players; what do the cars look like; and how do they function?)
3. When early and mass market adoption?
4. Autonomous vehicles vs flying cars (Are flying cars going to be autonomous or automated? How will they compete with autonomous vehicles like self-driving cars?)

See also: Where's my flying car (Search Engine, PJ Vogt, 2024.04.19)

This podcast is Al-generated with NotebookLM, using the following sources, research, and analysis:

• 1935 Waterman Arrowbile Roadable Aircraft (YouTube, Story Cars, 2021.02.07)
• 1949 Molton Taylor Aerocar Newsreel (YouTube, Classic Airliners & Vintage Pop Culture, 2014.05.25)
• Dude, Where's My Flying Car? (YouTube, IITV, 2024.11.07)
• Flying car (Wikipedia, 2024.11.14)
• Intermodal passenger transport (Wikipedia, 2024.11.14)
• Study on flying car transportation system (Feng/Huang/Wang/Xu/Zhang, 2023.11)
• Survey data on public perceptions towards flying cars and flying taxi services (Eker/Fountas/Ahmed/Anastasopoulos, 2021.10.12)
• The state of urban air mobility research: An assessment of challenges and opportunities (Ahmed/Fountas/Lurkin/et al, 2023.01.26) [PREPRINT]
• Toyota and Joby Aviation Complete Historic Air Taxi Test Flight in Japan (TechHub, 2024.11.05)
• Transport by Land and Air Vehicles, Advantages, Literature Review and Classification of Flying Cars (Sahin, 2024.10)
• Trends and Challenges in Realizing a Flying Car (Al Farsi, 2024.04)
• Urban air mobility and flying cars: Overview, examples, prospects, drawbacks, and solutions (Marzouk, 2022.11.11)
• Where are the flying cars? (Science News Explores, 2024.07.15)

Not investment advice; do your own due diligence!

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