DailyDirt: When Cars Fly!
from the urls-we-dig-up dept
Visions of the future usually seem to include flying cars filling the sky, but given the number of terrestrial car accidents, it doesn’t seem like such a great idea just yet. Still, plenty of folks are working on various kinds of personal aircrafts that could turn into somewhat practical flying cars.
- Burt Rutan has designed a flying hybrid car that can fit into a standard one-car garage. Interestingly, this Model 367 BiPod isn’t quite as far along in development as SpaceShipOne. [url]
- The AirMule is a vertical take-off-and-land vehicle that doesn’t look ready to fly anywhere near residential areas yet. Maybe that’s why its designers suggest using it for pumping heavy water into damaged nuclear reactors? [url]
- The European Union is looking into Personal Aerial Vehicles (PAVs) with a project called myCopter. It sounds strange that <60 mile flying trips could be more efficient than driving a car… [url]
- To discover more cool sites about aviation, check out what’s currently flying around StumbleUpon. [url]
By the way, StumbleUpon can recommend some good Techdirt articles, too.
Filed Under: flying cars, future, mycopter, personal aerial vehicles, spaceshipone
Comments on “DailyDirt: When Cars Fly!”
“When Cars Fly!”
When pigs fly! 🙂
Re: Re:
“When pigs fly! :)”
I have a pig and he’s very upset, you insensitive clod!
Where...
is my hooverboard?
Re: Where...
The FBI has it–it’s hiding in Hoover’s old office.
;-P
Check Jacque Fresco’s ideas and models for the future (doesn’t mean THAT is the future).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgORKTp_0ME
Flying cars
Terrafugia’s Transition vehicle is already developed and awaiting production. Check it out here: http://terrafugia.com/
Those MIT grads certainly don’t start with the small stuff.
Give us time… BTW, the plural of aircraft is aircraft.
i want a flying car. never get stuck in traffic again