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There are a few companies working on actual flying cars. But they are lousy cars and lousy airplanes typically. And to quote doc Brown: “Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.” Or cars.


So what? Whether "flying cars" are good cars or good planes is beside the point.

The point is that VTOLs are not flying cars, any more than helicopters are.




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