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The world's smallest flying car being tested in Japan
Japanese start up tests prototype flying car A Japanese startup called SkyDrive Inc. is conducting human-piloted test flights of their prototype flying car at a protected indoor facility. The tests are being carried out at the SkyDrive research flight centre outside of Nagoya. The flying car company was founded by former Toyota engineers and they believe that their vehicle will...
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Audi given permission to operate aircraft
The German car manufacturer Audi has been given permission by German authorities to operate experimental aircraft in their hometown of Ingolstadt Audi has partnered with aviation giant Airbus and the German city of Ingolstadt to begin testing its prototype air taxis in and around the Bavarian city. Audi has said in a statement that the tests will help develop a...
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Uber teams with NASA to make flying cars
Uber is teaming up with NASA to simulate flying taxis in urban areas. Back in 2016, Uber unveiled their plans to develop electric flying cars so as to help improve transportation in cities and to alleviate congestion as well as providing affordable air transportation. NASA became a partner for the program in 2017 by developing air traffic management for a...
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New Radar System for Flying Cars!
We have all heard of the expression, “flying under the radar” but have you ever considered that flying under the radar would be necessary in the very near future with the advent of flying cars in our cities? New object-detection technology proliferated after World War II when radar was used for the first time in real-world scenarios. In the beginning,...
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Porsche will make a flying car
Luxury sports car manufacturer, Porsche is planning to develop a flying passenger vehicle. Detlev von Platen, the company’s sales chief said in an interview with the German magazine Automobilwoche, that passengers would be able to use the cars without a pilot’s license. It is proposed by Porsche that most operations would be automated, but they could maintain some control. Von...
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Kitty Hawk CEO says flying cars will be in the air within five years
The CEO of a Larry Page-backed firm said that flying cars will be in the air within five years Sebastian Thrun who is the CEO of Kitty Hawk, a company backed Alphabet Chief Executive Larry Page, told media sources. At the moment, flying cars are in the "science phase." of development but could still take off in the next five...
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Flying car startup wants to have the world's first flying car race in 2019
An Australian startup called Alauda have announced their plan to host the world’s first “flying car” race in the desert in 2019. The company has built its own scaled-down prototype, a racecar-shaped quadcopter called the Alauda Mark 1 Airspeeder. They plan to flight test the flying racecar in 2018 and in order to get the project off the ground (pun...
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Chinese company Geely to launch flying cars after Terrafugia deal
The Chinese Automotive giant Zhejiang Geely Holding Group said last week that it will roll out its first flying car in 2019 in the United States. Geely acquired the Massachusetts-based startup Terrafugia, which is pioneering flying cars. As part of the acquisition, Geely has acquired all the Terrafugias’ operations and assets and has received all the necessary approvals for the...
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Flying car to ignite 2020 Olympic flame in Tokyo
It is planned that at the next Olympics, a futuristic flying car will ignite the Olympic flame to mark the opening of the games. This technology just goes to show how close we are to a flying commute to work in our very own private flying car. One prototype is powered by an engine built by British engineering specialist Prodrive....
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Back to the Future. The new DeLorean flying car
The most famous Irish sports car of the 80’s, the iconic DeLorean from Back to the Future, may see a comeback but this time for real. Well at least without the time travel anyway. As most of us know the original DeLorean car was turned into a time machine by ‘Doc’ Emmett Brown but the nephew of John DeLorean,...