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Too cute for words
eh, I'm still looking for an affordable electric car, that has some horsepower,
longer running.
Hybrids are as far as the technology has advance so far. I read a while back that someone came up with a new, relatively inexpensive way to mass produce fuel cell separators though, so if that pans out maybe reasonably efficient and inexpensive electric cars aren't that far away. OTOH, the cheapest way to make hydrogen is currently from natural gas (Honda even makes a machine for you to do it at home) so that kind of misses the fossil fuels boat.
I think maglev cars will precede flying cars, but the first big step on that road is getting people to give up individual control. As Bish says, a lot of people can't drive safely in two dimensions, let alone three.