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Flying cars could soon be ready for take off (www.unsw.edu.au)
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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

The concept of flying cars is an oxymoron. If they are flying they are not cars, but flying machines.
Cars drive on roads, boats sail on water, flying machines fly in the air.
To call it a flying car is like calling an amphibious plane a flying boat.