Humans take a step closer to ‘flying cars’
Published on 31st August, 2020 | 1 min read
Today, the world is closer to combining those two concepts as a Japanese tech company said it completed a manned test flight of a “Flying car.” The company, SkyDrive, said in a news release Friday that it had completed a flight test using “The world’s first manned testing machine,” its SD-03 model, an electrical vertical takeoff and landing vehicle. Tomohiro Fukuzawa, SkyDrive’s chief executive, said Saturday that five years ago there were various prototypes of flying cars, usually with fixed wings. SkyDrive was started in 2012 by members of a volunteer organization called Cartivator, and the company began developing a “Flying car” in 2014, according to its website. Several companies are developing similar technology, including Boeing and Airbus, as well as automakers Toyota and Porsche. Safe autonomous technology for eVTOL aircrafts is still being developed, Aksaray said. Fukuzawa said SkyDrive plans to begin selling a two-seat version of its eVTOL by 2023 for about $300,000 to $500,000.
