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Why don't they show those instead of the renders?
Because we’ve been building “flying cars” for 70 years with nothing to show for it other than prototypes. Or in this instance not even that - a render.
The idea is too sweet and the investor money from the gullible too ready to flow so we rehash it every decade or so, ignoring physics and logic.
They're just helicopters. That's what the flying car design converges to, at least if you need a pilot. And I think those will be required for a while longer.
Yes - but here the words “flying car” do a lot of heavy lifting.
They feed people some expectations about an techno utopia as well as operating costs, availability, complexity, range, noise, maintenance none of which match reality.