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Intel Drone Chief Predicts Flying Cars Within 5 Years
Intel Drone Chief Predicts Flying Cars! If films like Blade Runner and Back To The Future have taught us anything, it’s that it’s dangerous about making predictions about the future of flying cars. We have, after all, exceeded both of the dates in those films. Despite this, I still find…
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Flying Cars Rumoured To Be Appearing At CES 2019
Flying Cars At CES 2019? Just in case you hadn’t noticed, we’re currently in 2019. I only make this point because according to Blade Runner we should now have access to flying cars. Oh, and the opportunity for a better life in the ‘Off-World’ Colony. Sadly, however, it seems that…
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Man Creates Flying Car Based On Drone Technology
Man Creates Flying Car Based On Drone Technology For the last 70 years, one of the biggest visions of the future is the creation and mass ownership of flying cars. In fairness, it’s a concept that does make a little sense. For example, there’s a lot less traffic up there…
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Elon Musk Says Flying Cars Will Be Aerial Guillotines
Elon Musk Describes Flying Cars as aerial guillotines One of the biggest dreams of motorists is that one day we might be able to ditch the traffic and gridlock and be able to fly directly to our destination. In Back To The Future style, where we want to go, you…
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Lilium Gets $90M Funding for Electric VTOL Project
Flying car startup Lilium unveiled their working all-electric VTOL prototype back in April, showing that their design is functional. Even more impressive is that it has a higher top speed than a helicopter at 300km/h and shows a more passenger-friendly design than some of the drone prototypes from other companies.…
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Uber Elevate VTOL Vehicles to Take Flight in Dubai and Texas by 2020
Uber is hosting a 3-day “Elevate Summit” event in Dallas, Texas where the company unveiled the latest development for their Uber Elevate VTOL “flying car” aircraft. The Dallas-Forth Worth area as well as Dubai, will also be one of the pilot urban locations for the project where the company will…
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Airbus Unveils Modular Flying Car System
Airbus has debuted a new modular flying car system at the Geneva Motor Show 2017. The concept, dubbed Pop.Up, is effectively a giant quadcopter – designed in partnership with Italdesign – which can be coupled with a number of different, specially designed commercial transportation driving capsules to turn them into…
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NASA Opens Their Patents For Everyone!
When it comes to technology, very few companies are on the edge of it like NASA. From space travel to water purification systems, NASA has had their fingers in every single piece of technology for the better part of the last decade and now they’ve exposed that technology through a…
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TF-X Flying Car to Hit Roads (and Skies) by 2018
Terrafugia, a US-based small aircraft manufacturer, is building its first flying car, and has revealed that it hopes to begin testing it as soon as 2018. The TF-X is a hybrid electric flying car, which can carry four people, has unfolding wings with twin-mounted electric motors on either sides to…
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AeroMobil to Launch Flying Car by 2017; Driverless Model to Follow
Slovak roadable aircraft developer AeroMobil aims to have the first flying car on the road (and in the sky) by 2017, the company’s CEO Juraj Vaculik revealed at South-by-Southwest (SXSW), with the promise of an automated version to follow. Vaculik believes that personal transportation is overdue a reinvention, and that…
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1990s Flying Car Prototype Up For Auction
Back in the late-eighties, ambitious aeronautics company Sky Innovations pumped $6 million into the production a flying car. The result of that folly, the Sky Commuter, helped bankrupt the business. Only three prototypes of the Sky Commuter were produced in 1990, and the last surviving model is being put up…
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