The invention of a flying car, would have many more disadvantages, then advantages. One major disadvantage would be air traffic, and no-fly zones. If we were to have flying cars, assuming they could fly at reasonable altitudes, and not just the moderate "hover", there would be many more dangers to areas that are largely populated. A second major disadvantage, would be car, or flying car if you will, crashes. Around the world, nearly 1.3 million people die in car crashes per year. (Based on an article found at asirt.org) Your chances of death in a major car crash, are 1 in 77.4. (Based on information found at livescience.org) However, if you there were flying cars, and that generated "air traffic", then there would be a more profound chance of death, based on the fact that a lot of planes fly faster than the average car. One thing that many people tend to forget when thinking about the invention of flying cars, that are based on air planes, is the fact that air planes can not make a dead stop, so the only way to avoid a crash would be to dodge the other plane, but what if both flying cars tried to go the same way, resulting in a catastrophic crash, that would be all to common. Flying cars are an amazing aspiration, but we must discover better ways to keep drivers safe. We definitely, as humans, have the "thinking power", and technology to build flying cars, however, to make this a "way of the future", we must first find ways to make it safer, and more energy efficient.
