you may see more of these flying from city to city in the future,
at South By Southwest 2015, Juraj
Vaculik, co-founder and CEO of AeroMobil, spoke at a panel about the future of
flying cars, the company aims to put its vehicle on the market by 2017, but he did not stop there, Vaculik also highlighted the company’s next revolutionary venture in this
field, the self-flying car, AeroMobile says now that they have shown that
flying cars are possible, it’s time to make them drive and soar on their
own,
despite its unique look, AeroMobile 3.0, also named
the Flying Roadster, isn't all that different from your average sports car or
private plane, it runs on regular gasoline and can seat two people, when
driving, it boasts a range of 545 miles and a top speed of 99 mph, when
airborne, it can reach a top speed of 124 mph, with a range of 435 miles,
the Roadster only needs 650 feet to take off and just 160 feet to land, so the amount of land required for each runway wouldn’t be too substantial,
the argument to owning one of these flying cars costing
maybe several hundreds of thousands of pounds each goes like this, the idea is to
provide options for people travelling what AeroMobli considers 'medium' distances, or trips at around 400 miles, if someone decides to fly such a
distance now, the process of travelling to and from the airport, in addition to
the actual time for air travel, adds up to around six hours, but if a person
were to simply take off near the starting location and then land close to the
trip’s destination, it could cut down travel time to just 3.2 hours, will the
idea catch on? we will have to look to the skies and see.
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