will flying cars ever happen, and when?

In the future
Microchips will be inside our heads
We'll use telepathy
And have robots to make our beds

(I think about 82 years from now)

other futuristic ideas that seem naff and cliched but should still happen

genuinely convincing/worthwhile virtual reality video games (2015)
quantum/light-powered computers (2015)
robot servants (2050)
zero gravity individual jet packs (2050)

as for teleportation...surely its never going to be possible (ditto time travel) but 200 years from now who knows? when you think about these ideas and how they could actually happen SOMEDAY it does make you want to stick around long enough...so yeah we'll be able to order those cell-regeneration/life-preservation pills over the net in about 20 years too (meaning you'd be 150 years old but as only as wrinkly as Dale Winton, hurrah)

2015 - stem-cell based cures/replacement organs for cancer?

2020 - first fully cloned human?

2030 - equipment able to visualise your dreams on a video screen live and capture 'mental photographs' from your brain?

2040 - memory booster microchip that, when implanted, ensures you never forget anything, ever - unless you want to, in which case it can make sure you never do remember it?

2050 - a machine that re-polarises the globe to ensure your toast does actually land butterside up when you drop it accidentally

Flying cars would be an insurance nightmare. Hoverboards, however, would rock.

2070 - Colonies on Mars become a reality, but are a lot like Butlins and only really appealing to the working class family on a budget of stolen property.

2080 - The human appendix becomes a thing of the past

2090 - A new organ, called the "peggy", appears in new born children. It is a small sack of fleshy tissue protruding from the shoulders that can store over 32,000 mp3s

2100 - Robots outnumber humans. Again this happens by natural evolution.

2110 - The "Emoticons" from Will Self's short story in Junk Mail are a reality. Nobody buys one.

2120 - Mars declares independence, calling itself Lancebassland.

2130 - Popstars : The Cyborgs is the number one hit on 3-D Television. It is basically an engineering contest to build the most sonically bland vocalist the world has ever seen. No change there then.

2140 - The Police Academy series of films is remade.

2150 - Flying Cars are banned after complaints from the Red Arrows that they just can't find any work anymore.

2160 - Kevin Shields finally records a follow-up to "Loveless"

You could make one, but there are really good reasons why not.

Out of interest, are you actually drunk, or do you just have an incredibly poor idea of science?

2001: Bionic Eyes

genuinely convincing/worthwhile virtual reality video games

Ha! Rez!

2034 - Space-drinks become the dominant source of nutrition on the planet, replacing Galactic Corn Discs (originally called Pringles)

2056 - The ruler of the newly named planet Solar-Globe 3 who is a 50 foot tall metal incarnation of David Blaine called CyberBlaine 7 announces from his Triton fortress that all humanity (now largely composed of hyper intelligent mobile phones) must fight a newly discovered alien race who consume only Cosmos-Quaff a liquid similiar to space-drinks in all but hue.

2155 - The war rages for nearly a century before it is revealed that the whole thing was a marketing stunt by the omnipotent makers of Space-drinks the shadowy BarrTek Conglomerate. Apparently the scheme was a neoblissium fueled "joke" by malfunctioning sales organovats (cybernetic tubs of brain matter responsible for all media)

2156 - In the ensuing scandal an immortal psychic donkey called Trev replaces CyberBlaine 7 as ruler of the increasingly stupidly named Sphere of Quantum Fear (previously Solar Globe 3) shares in SpaceDrinks fall through the floor.

AHEM! Um, you can all wake up now.

http://search.lycos.com/default.asp?loc=searchbox&tab=web&query=tell+me+about+the+production+of+flying+cars&x=4&y=12
to will flying cars ever happen, and when?

This person must have been rather disappointed.

(yes, I am procrastinating)

(yes, I am masturbating)

Think of all the amazing technological changes of the past seven years!!

iPhones
marginally smarter iPhones
throttle-stuck Priuses careening madly around, rather like... flying cars!

What others can you think of?

I'm actually quite glad that there aren't flying cars. Imagine a throttle stuck Prius, except that fucker is also flying through the air suspended by lift-jets/anti-grav beams (or whatever future tech is needed to make flying cars actually, you know, fly, but doesn't exist yet because it's in the future because it hasn't been invented)..

I was talking to my housemate about hover vehicles a while ago and we figured it's a mad idea because now you have to think of traffic in 3D space. Imagine the accidents.

I wish they'd invent those personal transport tubes like the ones in Futurama. Wheeeeeeeeeeee!

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/9/24028009/hyundai-air-mobility-supernal-evtol-ces

More akin to a helicopter, but marketed as a flying car, and could be ready by 2028.
It's supposed to fly at 200 km/h at low altitude (1500 feet) and it's electrical.

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/03/1133736081/xpeng-evtol-flying-car
Then there are the Chinese XPeng X2-3 things that do look like flying cars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3Ic7IMhQUo

If you have a big balcony, your parking issues are solved

And this I guess to make the picture complete
https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/4/23538953/stellantis-archer-electric-air-taxi-evtol-midnight-mass-produce-investment

Stellantis / Archer to produce eVTOLs by 2024 which is, now.

No flying cars or skateboards, but we did get a Biff Tannen presidency.