NASA Sponsoring $2M Flying Car Contest; Time Machine Contest Coming Next

Despite the skepticism that justly confronts any mention of a "flying car," what with the disaster that expecting people who can barely drive a car to learn to fly a personal plane would be, NASA seems pretty optimistic about the idea. In fact, they're holding a $2 million contest to entice people to design flying cars. And this isn't just an exercise, either; NASA really expects up to 45% of travel to be done by flying cars (or PAVs, Personal Air Vehicles) in the future.

This sounds nice and all, but I'm still pretty sure regular people won't be able to fly mini-airplanes well enough for this to be any kind of safe alternative to driving. [Danger Room ]