Moller Flying Car

Look out! The future is right around the corner. The stuff of science fiction and fantasy is on verge of getting real. A flying car may soon become available in a showroom near you. Just think of it, the ability to take off at will and soar with the birds; a life free from traffic and congestion, and at speeds that can turn a one hour commute into 10 minutes. One of the places where a prototype for a flying car is being developed is a warehouse in California, where an inventor named Paul Moller is building the M-400 Skycar, which he says will be able to take off and land vertically, hover, and fly at up to 300 mph.

Moller sounds quite nonchalant when he says, "You will be able to get in your skycar, drive it electrically to a vertiport, two or three blocks from your home, program in your destination, and go directly to that destination without being involved in the process." In fact the M-400 and several earlier prototypes have already flown, but only on a limited basis and not very high or very far. The technology to produce a flying car has

In addition to the Moller Skycar, several other versions of the flying car are currently in the works. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology a team of researchers are busy developing a combo car-and-plane and a Texas company is releasing something that looks sort of like a miniature helicopter. So we still don't know what version of a flying car we will all be traveling in one day, but one thing is for sure that this new car won't be powered by gas. Experts name the most likely fuel source as electricity or hydrogen. Plus there is the cost factor. These vehicles capable of flying like birds may save you time, but only at a price. The first Moller sky cars will probably run $500,000. So start saving your pennies today, the future awaits.