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Solution: invent practical flying cars. Musk, git on it!

A more practical solution would just be encouraging funding in high speed trains and, critically, not constantly lobbying against it.

While also encouraging smaller vehicles like bikes and microcars in urban areas: https://electrek.co/2023/03/22/wink-motors-test-drive-electr... . Tire wear is proportional to both speed and vehicle weight.

Obviously the solution is maglev trains

The image people have of flying cars will never happen.

Any attempt at making a hybrid airplane/car will be shitty at being one or both of them. A hybrid helicopter/car is going to be too loud to use anywhere near a residential area, as would anything that relies on using turbines to push air downwards to pull the car up.

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