Flying Cars

Well it is the 21st century after all, and I still don't have one in my driveway, so where exactly are those flying cars? I've seen various approaches to the problem showing varying degrees of success, but here's one from DARPA:

This was obviously designed by a Marine Gunny sergeant with a lot of time in the sandbox. Take the traditional transport, lose the doors, and marry it to an Apache helicopter. A semi-auto-gyro from the look of it with motive force supplied by the pusher prop and lift by a combination of a modest fixed wing and an auxiliary overhead rotor.

If fitted with a body more like a chopper, and presumable in the same weight category, this might work, minus the ability to hover. It certainly isn't about to land and proceed down the narrow streets found everywhere in the Middle East, even with the fold-back wings pictured.

Still, a fun project for a Major to manage, producing one or two prototypes and some evaluation flight time in Nevada.