Do you think all the things that they say on tv about the futer hover cars e.g do u think that will happen?!?

Question

Do you think all the things that they say on tv about the futer hover cars e.g do u think that will happen?!?

Answer 1

no.

it takes energy to hold a vehicle in the air. we are already having an oil/gasoline shortage.

Answer 2

<<all the things that they say on tv >>

you're kidding right?

keep in mind, no matter the topic, you'll find someone who will say just about anything.

and when there's money involved, then they'll get far louder.

and more stupid, i might suggest.

hover cars?  no way.  where's the brake?  what keeps 'em going straight?  what happens when there's a hill?  not gonna happen.

you probably had other stuff in mind.  but i can't find my crystal ball today.

Answer 3

Naaa, if it does we will need better fuel effiency.

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Answer 4

Not until we are allowed to have gravity and inertia control. The Air Force HAS the technology, but it's Above Top Secret, so we will just have to keep dreaming.

Answer 5

Have you ever watched old Sci-Fi movies?  "2001 A Space Odyssey" had us flying to Jupiter 6 years ago.   Look at those movies and they would say that by now we should have flying cars, robot butlers, and vacation on the moon.  None of that has happened.  The original Star Trek show said that we should have fought World War 3 by now.

We have advanced, but not in the ways they predicted.  

As for flying cars, I hope not.  Most people don't drive very well.  A finder bender at 200 feet wouldn't kill you, but the fall would.

Answer 6

It is happening As we talk about it. The company is Located in Col that makes The SKYCAR.  The creator of this idea or should I say the person that has brought it to light has been working on this for over 30 years. He offered the patton  to 3 or 4 major airline makers all of them Laughed basically, A Canada Company Has backed him and Now are perfecting the skycar In Colorado. they actually have a car that will indeed fly. It will be like setting down and typing a coridiance and then you set back and it takes you there. It flys at 420 miles per hour. HAs vertical lift off. Although it has a built in onboard computor that you type the address of where you want to go, you can still fly it manually. The inventor was speculating that when a person gets there drivers license they will have to take a basic flying instruction as well.. I am pulling for this , I beleive this will answer a lot of the problems we are facing in this world. It will run off of Achohol. www.skycar.com I beleive this will come to past in the next 20 years due to congestion and Pollution. Hope that helps

Answer 7

Definitely.  Actually, there's already one in use that crosses the English Channel for tourist purposes.  And contarary to what the other answerers have said, it gets better fuel efficiency than a lot of cars.  The reason for this is because there isn't as much friction on the ground or from the wheels.  And for those who say that it takes to much work to hold it up, normal cars have to hold their own weight too;  the only extra hovercars have to do is raise themselves every time you would like to drive.  These cars may be more expensive, but in the long run, road wear and tear will decrease.  Many of these hover cars are street legal and on the market.  You just have to know where to look.  Hovercars may also be the gateway to flying cars, and for all of the people who think that flying cars will be a mess, think about it.  You'd have half as much traffic on the ground, and it would be easier and faster to get places.  The shortened distance would save a lot of fuel.  But to round up my answer to your question, the sky's the limit!

Answer 8

No.  You will expend more energy making the car hover than you would moving it forward.  There might be a way that it could be done, but I would think that it would be done on a subway or raised train rail first and that is using a super-cooled semiconductor to make a car or train float.  A supercooled semi-conductor track would allow a train or car to float with little energy expended, however the problem would be keeping that long of a lenth of conductin material super cooled.

Answer 9

Sci-fi pretty much predicts every advancement we have today. Whether it was because some inventor watched/read a lot of sci-fi or sci-fi writers are good a predicting. We just don't get them at the time they think. And there is a lot of stuff like the Internet and computers that were not being predicted.

Answer 10

yes i think at a time it will happen it probably start polluting the air that's when it all will start happening

Answer 11

At first when I read your question I thought a hover car would take far more energy to run.  But actually, if you design a car like a modern hovercraft, establish a break system (a simple wheel to hit the ground and break for example) then I could see it happening in certain places.  It might take less energy in the sense that it would require no drive train or wheels.  The energy would go to a shaft for driving props for air flow.  So it could be that there would be some real practicality in designing such a car.  

Now if you are talking about a back-to-the future style car involving jets - Not going to happen, to expensive and to much engineering.  

If you are talking about a craft that uses something conceptual like anti-gravity or magnetic (interacting with the earth magnetic field or something)...well that is undiscovered science so far as we know.  We can't even explain from where gravity comes in order to master it.....one day maybe.

Answer 12

We are facing an energy crisis as it is (why do you think we are in Iraq and Afghanistan?) given that science fiction is exactly that, fiction, if I were you I'd prepare myself for more a more realistic future vision involving rail travel, the bicycle (I'm against it myself on health and safety grounds) and say hello again to the horse and cart.

Answer 13

No, because thrust is less efficient than rolling.  This is why trains are the most fuel efficient form of transportation, because they are the most efficient rollers.

It would be neat if they did someday though.

Answer 14

Hover cars don't seem very fuel-friendly to me.