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Get ready for the Skydrive...I wonder if this project will eventually take-off...
Early flying car projects consisted of sticking a pair of wings on a regular car, flooring the gas, and hoping for the best, as evidenced by this ropey-looking effort cobbled together by a Russian fella a few years back.
Now, startups, carmakers, and aircraft manufacturers are pouring money into a multitude of ambitious projects aimed at creating a viable flying automobile that could one day utterly transform the way we move across town.
Following in the footsteps of the likes of Uber and Airbus, as well as lesser known outfits such as AeroMobil, Terrafugia, PAL-V, and SkyRunner, auto giant Toyota has just demonstrated that it, too, fancies the idea of a car you can fly to the office.
The Japanese company has just provided funding of 40 million yen (about $350,000) to Cartivator, a local group of enthusiastic volunteers - some of them Toyota employees - who've spent the last few years developing their flying vehicle.
"We'd already [approached] Toyota several times, so we were very happy that we finally made it," Cartivator's Ryutaro Mori told Digital Trends on Monday, adding that the car company's cash will mainly go toward the purchase of parts and components for their three-wheel flying vehicle, dubbed the Skydrive.
If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well
(Proverb)
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"Early flying car projects consisted of sticking a pair of wings on a regular car, flooring the gas, and hoping for the best, as evidenced by this ropey-looking effort cobbled together by a Russian fella a few years back."
First of all, sticking wings on a regular car is not going to work. You have to keep propelling the car after it leaves the ground. How do you do that ?
I actually got a ticket for flying a car once. Damn fast car actually. Good suspension. Hit the railroad tracks and was airborne for a second. Unfortunately a cop was on hand to see it.
Second, I can't make heads nor tails out of that picture.
As if under-designed clogged highways and the accidents which bad drivers cause isn't bad enough, we'll have to watch out for yahoo morons in the sky.
:)
The future of commuting falls into two distinct streams -
1st - Human powered - walking and cycling - becoming more and more important in our cramped, noisy unfriendly cities.
2nd - Mass transit - trains, trams, trolley buses
Distant 3rd - Cars
And 4th place - with as much chance of flying pigs is ....... Flying cars.
Cheers,
John K
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