To misappropriate what Stephan Zweig is said to have said about Brazil:<p>Flying cars are the transport of the future, and always will be.<p>Nitpicks:<p>1. Ready for a demo flight, maybe. To get it in production takes ages in aviation: The amphibious ICON (iCon?) A5 was first flown in 2008, the first production aircraft was out in 2014, but customers have not yet received any actual deliveries [1].<p>2. Flying cars? Very few of these new concept aircraft are actually <i>cars</i>, i.e. designed for extended time on the road. (Exception maybe the Terrafugia Transition: first flown in 2009, deliveries expected "between 2015 and 2016" according to Wikipedia [2].).<p>Not sure what's a good name for these new ones, maybe VSVA (very small VTOL aircraft) or EPA (electric personal aircraft) or something.<p>Ehang [3] and Volocopter [4] are testing multicopters ("drones") already, for 1 and 2 pax, respectively. Personally, I don't like the low rotors of the Ehang - looks like a recipe for disaster to me. Lilium looks interesting, too [5]. I hope some of them materialise soon at reasonable prices -- though we might need some more breakthroughs in battery technology.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICON_A5" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICON_A5</a><p>[2] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrafugia" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrafugia</a><p>[3] <a href="http://www.ehang.com/ehang184" rel="nofollow">http://www.ehang.com/ehang184</a><p>[4] <a href="http://www.volocopter.com/index.php/en/" rel="nofollow">http://www.volocopter.com/index.php/en/</a><p>[5] <a href="http://lilium-aviation.com/" rel="nofollow">http://lilium-aviation.com/</a>