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Exactly. Drones are so useful, but they screech like banshees, making them effectively useless for consumer applications within 200ft of any humans. Basically only aerial photography.

I assume jetpacks have similar issues

"The flying cars that are in development currently are largely mega-sized drones."

Mmmm, I'm not aware of any that are. The Terrafugia wasn't, but it has been abandoned apparently. The Samson Switchblade is a three-wheeled car with a pusher-prop design: https://www.samsonsky.com/models/

The three-wheel strategy is pretty smart, because the vehicle can be licensed as a motorcycle and doesn't have to have all the heavy safety equipment of a car.

> I'm not aware of any that are

1. BCL

2. Boeing AFS

3. Kittyhawk

4. Ehang

5. Workhorse

The list goes on...

You might not have heard of them as they're absolutely unmarketable because of the unbearable noise they make

None of those is a flying car. Flying cars are wheeled vehicles that can drive on the ground like a normal car, but also fly.