LA Times · Jul 3, 2015
'Back to the Future' ideas (hoverboard!) being realized in the present
Michael J. Fox in "Back to the Future Part II." (Universal)Although our present day looks a little different from what Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale imagined in the "Back to the Future" trilogy, the films' ideas, futuristic toys and capabilities have trickled into real life. Here's a look at a few of them.
'Where we're going, we don't need roads' ("Back to the Future")
At this year's South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas, Slovak auto company Aeromobil showed off a prototype for a car-airplane hybrid, sized to fit in a standard parking space and capable of reaching 124 mph in the sky. Aeromobil says the flying car is only a few years away from distribution.