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Eve Air’s Flying Taxi Survived a Wind Tunnel
As of 2023, the new millennium has proven to be way less full of flying cars than the movies promised. In today’s present, the sky isn’t dotted with compact vehicles zipping back and forth through an aerial metropolis. But maybe tomorrow could be. Or at least that’s what a handful of tech startups are angling…
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XPeng Strapped a Drone to a Hatchback and Called it a Flying Car
Flying cars are the future, apparently. That’s what tech companies like to say whenever they wheel out a new vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) craft that they’re tenuously claiming is a flying car. So far, very few of these creations have made it off the drawing board and into reality. Things changed this week, when…
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The ‘Future Of Flight’ Keeps Crashing and Burning
While carmakers are scrambling to become “mobility companies,” a different race for transportation efficiency is taking place right above our heads. Aircraft manufacturers are testing electric planes, capable of vertical takeoff and landing and remote-controlled flight, to use as traffic-hopping sky taxis that cut commute times down to nothing.
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No, Japan Did Not Really Grant A Flying Car A Safety Certificate
The aviation world is abuzz with news that startup SkyDrive has achieved an amazing first. Making its rounds is a report that Japan has granted a safety certificate to a flying car. But not only is that not true, but the “flying car” is merely just another electric VTOL, and one that’s somehow worse than…