Only Nine Years Behind Schedule!

It's January 2009. As I'm fond of pointing out, we were supposed to have flying cars and cities on the moon by now.
Well, I don't know about Lunar colonies yet, but flying cars may be here sooner than you think! (Again, I know we've been hearing that for years. Just trust me on this.)
According to CNN, a team of British inventors are planning to take their prototype flying dune buggy on a trip from London to Timbuktu.
You can read about it here at CNN.com.
Or you can read about it and watch a video clip here at the Website of iMotor magazine.
Or you can follow the expedition online at its own site: http://www.skycarexpedition.com/.

(Of course, I'd still rather have a car in which you can just flip a switch, take off vertically, and soar above that traffic jam. On the other hand, I suppose that if everyone had that feature, you'd just end up with three-dimensional traffic jams full of hovering cars. So it probably wouldn't be as much help as you might think.)