The cynic in me is already asking: where are the flying cars?
They were at the top in F1 until 2021.
They were at the top in F1 until 2021.
In any case, we have helicopters which embodies the spirit of a flying car
Light aircraft are somewhat efficient, but helicopters point out well the likely efficiency issues with flying cars. We are not getting magic anti-gravity anytime soon... Or jetpacks...
Jetpacks on the other hand might finally be getting out of the "possible but not useful" state, moving quickly towards "useful in some niches" and maybe further on from there.
There's already a few being developed, but that's not going to be for the peons e.g. pal-v started taking orders for Liberty this year, and apparently the price tag is somewhere between half and a mil.
Mercedes F1 team has nothing to do with Mercedes car company other than sharing the same name. Different factories, different management, different workers, different technologies.
It's a marketing exercise designed to sell more road cars ("Win on Sunday, sell on Monday"), that shares nothing with the road cars division.
They can very well sell the F1 team if they deiced it's not profitable anymore.
OK, Ferrari for example may take some cues from F1 for their hypercars, but how much is just PR statements and how much actual reality we'll never know.