---
title: "New Hampshire Passes Law That Allows Flying Cars"
description: "A new law in New Hampshire clears the way for flying cars to use public roads. Or, at least, it will once they actually hit the market."
date: "2020-07-31"
modified: "2020-07-31"
authors:
  - name: "Jon Christian"
    job_title: "Executive Editor"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/jonc"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/new-hampshire-law-allows-flying-cars"
categories:
  - "Advanced Transport"
tags:
  - "aviation"
  - "flying cars"
  - "legislation"
  - "the digest"
---

# New Hampshire Passes Law That Allows Flying Cars

![Israel startup Urban Aeronautics announced this week that it's partnering with hydrogen fuel cell maker HyPoint to devise a hydrogen-powered flying car.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/flying-car-delorean-back-future.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: Urban Aeronautics\</em\>*

## Live Free

The famously libertarian state of New Hampshire just passed a law that'll allow flying cars to drive on its roads — once you're actually able to buy one, that is.

"There was nothing on the books that would have allowed this type of vehicle on the road," state representative Sherman Packard, a sponsor of the bill, [told *NHPR*](<https://www.nhpr.org/post/flying-cars-could-soon-be-driving-new-hampshire-roads#stream/0>). "To allow them to even exist in New Hampshire we had to pass this type of legislation."

## Road Warrior

The law, [*CNET* points out](<https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/new-hampshire-flying-cars-gta-5/>), doesn't allow flying cars to actually take to the skies, and it also doesn't permit them to take off or land on public roads. Another sobering technicality raised by the site: You can't actually buy a flying car yet, though a growing number [of startups](<https://futurism.com/flying-car-design-finalized-arrive-2019>) and [larger companies](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/boeing-passenger-air-vehicle-flying-car>) say they're working on them.

But, once the vehicles actually go on sale — still a long-deferred dream in aviation — the law will allow them to drive on the states roads, which lawmakers say was not previously legal

## Jetson Bill

Jeff Rapsis, the executive director of the Aviation Museum of New Hampshire, told *NHPR* that initial waves of flying cars likely won't stick out in traffic, making the law an easy one for motorists to adjust to.

"If you’re driving down the highway you won’t see some unusual air-craft like device coming behind you," he told the station. "While on the road it will behave very much like a normal car."

**READ MORE:** [New Hampshire is first state to allow flying cars on the road](<https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/new-hampshire-flying-cars-gta-5/>) \[*CNET*\]

**More on flying cars:** [*Watch This Flying Car Nail Its Flight Demonstration*](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/watch-flying-car-nail-flight-demonstration>)

## Author
I'm responsible for editing, assigning, and scouting at Futurism, as well as occasionally writing for the site. That work involves keeping an eye on a wide range of narratives and issues, but over the past few years I've become increasingly interested in how AI is shaping the future of media, the web, and information itself. My day-to-day often involves collaborating on reporting and commentary projects bylined by my colleagues, but I try to find time to do my own reporting as well; stories I've broken for Futurism have been cited by publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker, Wired, Ars Technica, New York Magazine, the Columbia Journalism Review, Bloomberg, and more. I grew up in Southern Vermont and attended Vanderbilt University. Prior to Futurism, I contributed to outlets including the Boston Globe, Vice, Wired, Slate, the Atlantic, the Outline, Ars Technica and more, and did stints in farming and food service. I currently live in Brooklyn, New York, and in my free time I enjoy pinball, word games, cycling, running, and music production.

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