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"As a writer, I don't want to chew my cud. I don't want to have to spit out and regurgitate the same stuff again."
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Compare to the aerocab from Buck Rogers comics (1929), the hoverlimo from John Varley's 1992 novel Steel Beach. Also, see the Tin Cabby from James Blish's 1957 novel Cities in Flight, the gyrocab from You are Forbidden! by Jerry Sheldon, the helical from John Weston's 1950 story The Heli-Cab Hack and the aircab from Harry Bates' 1940 story Farewell to the Master.
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