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“Where’s my flying car?” is something of an informal motto among technology malcontents, annoyed that the science fiction of the 50s never materialized – but that funeral selfies did.

Well, there’s a solid answer to this question now: your flying car is in Vienna, but you’ll need a few hundred thousand euros, a personal airfield and a pilot’s licence to use it."------http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/...25958.html
I suspect flying cars will need the invention of a compact or portable fusion reactor before they "take-off" in popularity. Especially if extra or quasi-unlimited power might be needed to facilitate vertical take-off from a backyard platform instead of those lengthy "personal airfield" strips.