Unlike plane travel, on Virgin Galactic the transportation will be the destination you go up to look down. If you don't like the view from your flying car, you may prefer the one from an aircraft from Virgin Galactic, a high-flying offshoot of Virgin Atlantic Airways. The first Moller skycars will probably run $500,000. And they won't be cheap, at least not initially. More likely the fuel source will be electricity or hydrogen. Whatever it is that finally takes off, don't expect it to be powered by gas. A Texas company is releasing something that looks sort of like a miniature helicopter. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing a combo car-and-plane. There are several other versions of flying cars in the works. "I think that's a clear advantage - just sort of being able to kind of move over and around and up and down and get out of the way."
"There's a lot more space in three dimensions than there is in two dimensions on a road," said Mark Jannot, editor in chief of Popular Science. Transportation experts say people will eventually turn to the skies not just out of a sense of adventure, but out of necessity: to escape gridlock on the ground. "As you know on the ground most of the accidents are due to operator error so you have to pull that out of the equation in the air," he said. The challenge is to make it safe to operate, and that means turning the driver into a passenger. But no one doubts the technology exists to produce a flying car.
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