Flying cars could doom humanity to the endless nightmare of "air rage" collisions and drunken crash landings. Luckily, such flying cars will probably have autopilot modes that allow them to fly themselves wherever humans wish them to go.
One effort to make software "brains" necessary for automated flying cars comes from the European project called MyCopter, according to.
The project has already begun using a simulator to test how such personal flying vehicles might behave under the control of both unskilled and professional pilots.
The future of flying cars seems to keep slipping over the horizon, but just about everyone agrees that the ideal form of such vehicles will have vertical takeoff and landing capabilities like helicopters. Early versions of "flying cars" dating back to the 1950s were essentially "roadable aircraft" that took off and landed like typical airplanes.