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Asked by MLG sloth to Anna, James, Joe, Leonie, Olivia on 16 Mar 2015.
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Olivia Lynes answered on 16 Mar 2015:
No, those would be planes! I’d like a car that turned into a plane though, my commute home would be much quicker.
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Leonie Oostwoud Wijdenes answered on 16 Mar 2015:
I hope there will be a car that can also fly one day. Or even better, a bicycle that you can also ride in the air!
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James Pope answered on 16 Mar 2015:
I think there are cars that can extend wings and fly a little, certainly as concept cars and prototypes.
While they seem very cool, I’m not sure I would enjoy it. I went gliding once and flying in a small craft is very intimidating, much nicer being the big, easy to see craft in the air!
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Anna Ashton answered on 16 Mar 2015:
I don’t see why not! Humans are endlessly creating new things and solving problems, I’m sure it’s possible, it’s just whether people decide to dedicate their time and money to do so (personally I hope somebody does!)
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Joe Spencer answered on 17 Mar 2015:
Some people have created flying cars, by adding wings and RAM jets (not generally a good idea)
I think we might have flying cars one day, but we’ll need a better fuel source than petrol to make them fly. Plus I don’t think we can trust most drivers on the road to drive in 2 dimensions, let alone 3!
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James commented on :
Joe makes a great point regarding fuel, Planes don’t use petrol as its ratio of weight to power is pretty rubbish, so they use Kerosene, which is lighter than Petrol.
Interestingly, Petrol was a waste product of early oil production, as it wasn’t useful for what oil was used for (mainly oil burning lamps), for this reason it was very cheap and that was probably the reason Karl Benz used it in his new invention, the internal combustion engine!
James commented on :
http://www.iflscience.com/technology/company-claims-their-flying-car-will-hit-markets-two-years
In the next two years for a flying car apparently!