Flying Car!

I shit you not. Google Search: Terrafugia I copied that link from Firefox, so it might not work for a few of you. Here is the homepage of the plane.

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Which brings me to the next point of reference: The Terrafugia is a roadable airplane, not a flying car. You still need to take off from a sanctioned landing strip. Oh, and it's front wheel drive. At the very least, you can use regular ol' gas you get from a consumer station. Let's be glad it's no longer $4 a gallon, amirite?

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Apparently, when in flight, it is moved by the huge propeller in the back, The Wings fold up, gull style, and take 15 seconds to deploy. To deploy them, you need to put in a pin number, then move a lever, and this can only be done inside the cockpit.

This bad boy cruises at 100 knots (115 mph) and has a range of 460 miles. With a 20 gallon fuel tank, it gets 30 miles per gallon.

The distance from JFK to TF Green is 143 miles, so this bad boy could get me from home to school in a little over an hour.

And still have gas for me to drive around Rhode Island for a bit. Then fly back. I could live in NYC, and literally commute. Leave in the morning, land, drive to work, drive back to the airport and be back home for dinner. Boston to NYC is 375 miles. Oh yeah, and asking price is $200,000.

It also needs around 2500 feet of runway to take off and land. So there are no "Oh shit, traffic" moments. The only traffic encountered is between airports and destinations; where most of the traffic usually is, not so ironically.