I’ve always felt like the automotive and transportation industry is behind in technology. Only now are cars coming out with standard technological features like bluetooth, touch screens, voice commands, and internet access. Those features should have been standard a long time ago.
But now, we might be on the horizon of something completely new and technologically advanced that could possibly be within consumers’ grasp. Flying cars.
Now, it’s been done before by Terrafugia and Pal-V, but now AeroMobil is set to show of its new AeroMobil 3.0 at the Pioneers Festival in Austria on October 29th and hopes to finally bring a product to market that will not be too incredibly expensive, and might be somewhat feasible.
Here is a video of the AeroMobil 2.5, the previous iteration (the pre-prototype), but it actually works!
Will AeroMobil be the first one to bring flying cars to the masses? Terrafugia and Pal-V also seem to have some concepts in the works that might give some competition.
One downside that I see is that the AeroMobil does require a runway for takeoff and landing. Meanwhile, Terrafugia is working on the TF-X™, “a four-seat, plug-in hybrid electric flying car with fly-by-wire vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) capabilities […] designed to bring personal aviation to the world“.
It should be interesting to see if any of this actually comes to reality any time soon. By the time it happens, self-driving cars may have already caught on.
It is crazy to think that in the future flying cars will be a thing. Can you imagine all the traffic laws and rules? You crash up in the air then you take others down with you when you crash a second time in the ground lol