TOKYO, Sept 3 — It might seem like a flight of fancy, but a Japanese firm says it is one step closer to making flying cars a reality after testing a drone-like prototype. Video from engineering company SkyDrive shows its manned compact vehicle using eight propellers to hover into the air and make...
SkyDrive hails 'the first public demonstration of a flying car in Japan' and says the vehicle, around the size of two parked cars, circled the testing field for four minutes. — AFP pic
Video from engineering company SkyDrive shows its manned compact vehicle using eight propellers to hover into the air and make its way — with a few wobbles — around a test field., the test run leaves mankind far from a future of airborne vehicles whizzing into the sky to avoid traffic. “We want to realise a society where flying cars are an accessible and convenient means of transportation in the skies,” SkyDrive CEO Tomohiro Fukuzawa said in a statement Friday.
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