The Ludicrous Idea of Flying Cars

Can you imagine a red light telling the flying car to stop so that another car can fly by?

The flying car as imagined in the 50s. Public Domain.

When I was growing up in the 50s, most sci fi magazines imagined that in another 30 or 50 years, we would have flying cars all over the place. There were plenty of magazine coves with illustrations showing flying cars flashing between tall skyscrapers. In…