http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_air_vehicle
A few seconds on Google came up with lots of articles about PAVs - I was not making it up. The Jetsons will become reality. You will be able to drop the kids off at school in your own PAV.
Some of us do have time to read Flight International and AWST, and we can remain clear headed enough to remember articles we read a couple of years ago.