will there be hover cars one day?

Question: will there be hover cars one day?
- Keywords:
  automobile,
  car,
  future,
  hover,
  travel
Asked by dondon1 to Cathy, Jaz, Mark, Roma, Rory on 23 Jun 2014.
- Jaz Rabadia answered on 23 Jun 2014:
  
  I hope so !! I think that its only a matter of time. Now we have so many strong and leightweight materials and our aeroplanes have advanced so much more..
  
  This is how they could work… imagine that…. no more traffic jams 🙂
  http://auto.howstuffworks.com/flying-car.htm
- Cathy Fraser answered on 23 Jun 2014:
  
  Wouldn’t that be great!
  I think that cars will be changing – they’ll need to given future fuelling issues!
  
  One thing that does appeal is using magnets for hovering purposes – see the link here for cars and other cool bits that might be the future!
  http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/engineering/extreme-machines/8-ways-magnetic-levitation-could-shape-the-future#slide-4
- Mark Greaves answered on 23 Jun 2014:
  
  We already have hovercraft…it all depends on how high you want to hover or whether a flying car is a better idea.
  
  The technology certainly exists for it, making it commercially available could be a challenge to overcome.
- Roma Agrawal answered on 23 Jun 2014:
  
  Yes I think so! I’m not sure which type of car will be the best, as one technology tends to over shadow the rest. Like the petrol car did in the 40s and 50s.
- Rory Hadden answered on 24 Jun 2014:
  
  I hope so – I was promised them reading comics when I was growing up!
  
  We certainly have the knowledge but I think Mark is right that it would be difficult to make it efficient and to make money on it!
  
  Rory