Japanese company
has successfully tested their ever first flying car which is believed to be a
game-changing in the Japanese Transport industry.
An illusion we
always see in sci-Fic movies of cars zipping around the skyline as simple as driving
in the streets seems not to be far away from actual reality happening in this
planet earth very soon and not any other planet apart from where we are now. A lot of companies around the world have been working so hard to make this decade-old
dream of a flying car come true but very few with little success and a Japanese a company named Sky Drive Inc is among companies indicating that this dream can
be achievable even quicker.
On August 25th
2020, Sky Drive Inc stated in a news release that it completed its first public
demonstration for a flying car in Japanese history. The amazing test drive of
the first flying car in Japan took place at Toyota Test Field which is ones of
the largest and home to Toyota car company development base.
In a test, Sky Drive’s
flying care named SD-03 manned with a pilot successfully took off and circled
the test field for about four minutes which was quite amazing to witness by the
Japanese people were to observe the test.
The SD-03 is designed
in a futuristic way as seen in the photo above, it has eight motors to ensure safety
in emergency situations and so far it’s the world’s smallest electric takeoff
and landing vehicle that can occupy the parking space of two cars according to
the report from the company.
Sky Drive CEO
Tomohiro Fukuzawa said in a statement.
"We are
extremely excited to have achieved Japan's first-ever manned flight of a flying
car in the two years since we founded SkyDrive... with the goal of
commercializing such aircraft," he
further continued "We want to realize a society where flying cars are an
accessible and convenient means of transportation in the skies and people are
able to experience a safe, secure, and comfortable new way of life."
The Japanese government as well the company hopes to
make the flying car the future and part of normal life which means it should not be
very expensive but affordable to many citizens. With this successful flight test, it means
many more test will continue throughout in the future especially out of the
Toyota Test field by the end of this year and its also aiming to continue
developing more technologies to enhance the capabilities of the vehicle as well
launch the car in 2023 however, the potential price of the vehicle has not been released
yet.
The benefit of
using a flying car is that, it will be faster, no traffic jam and
environmental friendly since it will be electric but it will still face a lot of
challenges such as commercial licensing, traffic management in the sky and public
safety issues as you know aircraft accident are quite serious so most people might
be too afraid to acquire this kind of technology.
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