It's barely a shell of a proper car, complete gimmick for "car people" who think car industry came to be with Tesla two decades ago

"Just a good ol' boys, Never meanin' no harm". Cars have been flying for a few seconds on a regular basis since the 70s.

If this is the metric of a flying car then we had working prototypes in the 60s.

It’s falling with style

> It’s an incredible engineering accomplishment

Many of the best parlor tricks are.

Any car can be made to fly if "just for a few seconds" is as stringent as your requirements get.

my honda civic can fly too if I floor it on the hill nearby.

> It’s an incredible engineering accomplishment

Yeah just like the Tesla screen in the car. Quite a problem since it lacks physical buttons.

Rockets have been around for a hundred years.

It's a joke. A clever trick. To what end? ... absolute joke.

Do you know what gets me excited? Have you seen the new Porsche Mission S?

Form, function and beauty ...

It's not a flying car in the way that anyone ever imagined growing up. When people think flying cars they think blade runner or fifth element. Not a car that can jump, interesting as a jumping car may be.

And frankly I'm not sure the engineering is all that impressive. I'm sure someone could've done similar a long time ago, there's just no point to it beyond, well, the parlor trick. Even millionaires have no use for a single seat, road-illegal vehicle with no storage that happens to be able to jump

That makes it a disaster waiting to happen.