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The World's First Mass-Produced Flying Car Is Here and It Costs $1 Million

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Mass-Produced
I want to see these masses who can pay the million :)
- A million doesn't get you what it used to, and you'd be shocked at how many quiet millionaires there are out there.
  
  There might be a lot more millionaires than before, but it’d still be a much smaller number who could drop $1M on a flying car.
  
  It's cheaper than a private jet and there are LOADS of them buzzing around polluting the skies.
  
  Way more expensive than most private aircraft, though.
  
  I'm still of an opinion that private aircraft is for sports and for farmers and for doctors\firefighters\rescuers in remote areas like rural Siberia. And, of course, for people wiping their ass with money.
  It's unfortunately not the same as having a spaceship in some sci-fi universe. The word "ship" hints why, the legal infrastructure, the expenses and most of all required qualifications make flying a plane more demanding.
  I don't see how making a weird car-like plane changes that.
  
  This looks to me like yet another in a surprisingly long line of airplanes that are also designed to be driven on roads in someway, but they’re basically all noticeably worse at either task than vehicles designed specifically for one of those tasks. It also invariably ends up more expensive than two specialized vehicles, so there’s never really any reason to build these.
  
  That may be true, but private jets are significantly more practical than this. If you've got private jet money, you can just afford to buy a jet and a decent car at your destination.
  
  With the range of a cessna skyhawk ($400k-$500k aircraft), no way it'll replace a private jet.
  
  OK. Yes, then I want to get this shock :)
- an assembly line that can make 2 per year still qualifies as mass production. At the level of people who can afford a million you can't sell more than a couple per year anyway. There are a few car companies that have production numbers in that range.
- A million and get a pilot licence.
  
  I mean you can get a licence for 20-30k, the maintenance is deadly on a plane though, you could buy a very nice car each year on that money.

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