SkyCar

Today i listened to Paul Moller a person who does not seem to have thought of anything else other than skycar all his life :). In ted video he explains what he has been doing in this field. Some of the points he explains :

*In USA we are not building new highways but transportation is going to increase by at least 30 % in next decade. How are we going to cope up with it ?

* Why not use something like skycar for long distance traveling(60 miles +). We already use airplanes .. so skycar should not be crazy idea to go after. Henry Ford hinted something similar in 1940.

* There are other interesting use cases of this vehicle one of which is rescue.

* The technology involved is complex but certainly lot simpler than what we are using to go and be on moon and mars.

I think this is an interesting idea. Also we could achive something which can easily fly at different heights it will very useful to avoid traffic. As in air we can fly at different heights , all can be at same point. Also we do not need to build roads. Also renewable energy research is making great progress these years. It it could reach to a point to power our skycars of future , indeed sky will only be the limit. In poor countries also good infrastructure can be rapidly built as it eliminates requirement of road which is one of the biggest problem at such places. Connecting to remote places etc become so much easier.
May be while we think of this different ideas might come forward which will be entirely different but this thing does have potential to change something fundamentally and put as in completely new era.