flying car
Jetsons transport mode
A flying car is a vehicle that functions both as an automobile and an aircraft—driven on roads and flown through the air.
Long a staple of science fiction and futuristic speculation, flying cars remain more concept than reality despite periodic prototypes: We were promised flying cars, and all we got was social media.
The phrase often stands for unfulfilled technological promises generally.
Levitating vehicle concept
- skycarAerial personal transport
- Blade RunnerOne who retires replicants
- cyberpunkDystopian tech-noir fiction
- retro-futurismNostalgic vision of tomorrow
Jetsons · sci-fi · utopia · dystopia · megacity · antigravity · levitation · 2050
Flying or operating aircraft
- airspaceRegulated overhead flight zone
- altitudeMeasured height above reference
- takeoffDeparture or parody
- landingDescent's final moment
hover · glide · pilot · cockpit · airspeed · thrust · propeller · rotor
Perpendicular takeoff ability
- prototypeFirst functional specimen
- propulsionForce driving movement forward
- drivetrainVehicle power transmission system
- hybridThing of mixed parentage
electric · quadcopter · rotorcraft · battery · motor · roadable · airworthy · chassis
Regular work travel
- trafficMovement along routes
- congestionExcessive accumulation causing blockage
- urbanPertaining to cities
- routePath from A to B
destination · journey · travel · transit · point-to-point · air taxi · rideshare · helipad
Self-propelled passenger conveyance
- passengerTraveler, not operator
- convertibleCar with folding roof
- compactTightly packed together
- seatPlace for sitting
windshield · dashboard · steering · controls · canopy · wheels · retractable · dual-mode
hovercar
Levitating vehicle concept
- skycarAerial personal transport
- Blade RunnerOne who retires replicants
- cyberpunkDystopian tech-noir fiction
Jetsons · retro-futurism · sci-fi · utopia · dystopia · megacity · antigravity · levitation · 2050 · tomorrow
aviation
Flying or operating aircraft
- airspaceRegulated overhead flight zone
- altitudeMeasured height above reference
- takeoffDeparture or parody
landing · hover · glide · pilot · cockpit · airspeed · thrust · propeller · rotor · turbulence
VTOL
Perpendicular takeoff ability
- prototypeFirst functional specimen
- propulsionForce driving movement forward
- drivetrainVehicle power transmission system
hybrid · electric · quadcopter · rotorcraft · battery · motor · roadable · airworthy · chassis · thrusters
commute
Regular work travel
- trafficMovement along routes
- congestionExcessive accumulation causing blockage
- urbanPertaining to cities
route · destination · journey · travel · transit · point-to-point · air taxi · rideshare · helipad · corridor
automobile
Self-propelled passenger conveyance
- passengerTraveler, not operator
- convertibleCar with folding roof
- compactTightly packed together
seat · windshield · dashboard · steering · controls · canopy · wheels · retractable · dual-mode · amphibious
- sci-fi techteleporter, time travel, cryonics, force fields, time machine
- The JetsonsGeorge Jetson, Rosie, Astro, George, Jane
- future vehicleshovercraft, hoverboard, jetpack, spaceship, hover bike
- flying vehiclesairship, shuttle, VTOL, tiltrotor, jetpack
- retrofuturismray guns, jetpacks, rocket ships, space helmets, bubble helmets
- impracticalitiesimpracticality, pipe dream, pie in the sky, castle in the air, fool's errand
flying carroad car
Street-legal automobile
wheeled vehicle · automobile · streetcar · subway · horse and buggy
flying carModel T
First mass-produced automobile
horse-drawn carriage · Ford Pinto · station wagon · minivan · jalopy
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