Kek! Me, too! I'm like a cat, I can get up the tree but not down 😸

OK, I'm thinking about the immediate decade following the introduction of the exotic tech of anti-grav and zero point energy if such things exist.

Suppose a company like Tesla started mass producing vehicles with these new techs, they'd be disruptive and very popular.

There would be very many millions of units which would be in the custody of ordinary people for maintenance etc.

Mechanical parts and electronic guidance systems will be involved and there will be a small but significant failure rate.

We want our future to be safe and prosperous, and my take on it is that, since we have a beautiful road infrastructure already, we'd be better off initially limiting flying cars to a few feet above the ground so that they can land on integral rubber bump stops or something if they break.

We don't want a world where everyone's flying escalade can be a man made meteor because there isn't enough regulation over maintenance.

If hovering cars spread the gravitational load over a wider area than rubber tyres do now, then existing roads will last much longer and won't need to be so perfect and robust as they do now. We also won't need to worry so much about aerial rights of way over people's properties if people more or less keep to the road structure.

I'm a practical guy who has worked on concept cars in the past.

Am I thinking too small?