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If it's a flying CAR, how come it has to be towed to and from it's designated take off and landing sites? The whole point of a flying car is that you can go from ground travel to air travel without much effort.
This isn't a expensive flying car. It's a cheap aircraft that an inexperienced and untrained pilot is going to be allowed to fly.
There is no legal definition for a flying car, so they can use the term if they want. It's like the term AI that gets thrown around a lot, but actually people mean an LLM, but technically even a checkers program is in the AI category.
The USA industry term is a "roadable aircraft" and legal is also moving to that term. In Europe the legal term is FlyDrive vehicle. And the thing in the article is an SC-VTOL (special condition) in Europe and powered-lift aircraft in USA.
I don't think that's the point of the comment.