A flying car...
 

Sort of reminds me of the one in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs...lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeQL-dUjlOg

Thoughts?

The video is about 3 years old, yet another in 30+ years of "flying cars" that don't pan out to anything but one-offs. A fun tinker-ers project though.

You wouldn't catch me dead doing that...but more power to them for trying it. It would be absolute havoc if flying cars became the norm...

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Oh, yes! It wil be a nightmare for everyone, especially for ATC.
That's what we need--peolr flying their cars with cup of coffee ine onr hand and a cell phone in the other.
Some will stall their aircraft.

The problem with all of these 'flying car' stories is the vehicles in question never meet the public's understanding of what a flying should/will be. In a nutshell, it needs to have some kind of anti-gravity functionality that allows it to hover.

For greater clarifty, but so as not to limit the generality of the foregoing, see -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWST1_xO6PY

On paper it seems like a good idea, but in reality it is neither a good car, or a good plane. It is too expensive to drive on the street, just imagine the first time you ding that when parking or the first time someone backs into you, it immediately becomes un-airworthy and will require repair at an FAA certified facility at extraordinary expense. I really don't know how it will handle crosswinds, the wings are so low that the wing-down technique would result in a huge cartwheel as one wing digs into the runway. Maybe a 2-wheeled crabbed landing might work?

In case you aren't aware, the price for this 'toy' is estimated at around $279,000. The insurance on the hull alone would be crazy, north of $10k and probably a lot more considering the risk of damage on the road. Since it qualifies as a Light Sport Airplane, performance and load hauling will not be spectacular either.