'Flying Cars' The Next Big Revolution In Commuting
Sitting amidst a sea of cars in bumper-to-bumper traffic on an endless expressway, have you ever daydreamed about your car taking off and flying over the road? Imagine if you could just flip a switch and unshackle yourself from the asphalt!
Traffic jams are the bane of any commuter. Many of us spend an hour or so stuck in traffic every week. The growing population is partly to blame for our congested roads, but the main problem is that we are not expanding our transportation systems fast enough to meet ever increasing demands. One solution is to create a new type of transportation that doesn't rely on roads, which could one day make traffic jams a 20th century relic. To do this, we must look to the sky.
In the last century, airplanes and mass-produced cars have changed the way we live. Cars, which became affordable for the general population, have allowed us to move farther away from cities, and planes have cut travel time to faraway destinations considerably. At the beginning of a new century, we may see the realization of a century-old dream -- the merging of cars and planes into roadable aircraft, or flying cars. You've probably heard promises about flying cars before, and the technology to make them safe and easy to fly may finally be here.
Traffic jams are the bane of any commuter. Many of us spend an hour or so stuck in traffic every week. The growing population is partly to blame for our congested roads, but the main problem is that we are not expanding our transportation systems fast enough to meet ever increasing demands. One solution is to create a new type of transportation that doesn't rely on roads, which could one day make traffic jams a 20th century relic. To do this, we must look to the sky.
In the last century, airplanes and mass-produced cars have changed the way we live. Cars, which became affordable for the general population, have allowed us to move farther away from cities, and planes have cut travel time to faraway destinations considerably. At the beginning of a new century, we may see the realization of a century-old dream -- the merging of cars and planes into roadable aircraft, or flying cars. You've probably heard promises about flying cars before, and the technology to make them safe and easy to fly may finally be here.
It may still sound like the stuff of science fiction, but the AeroMobil flying car is close to a final design. The roadster-cum-light-aircraft is being tested to refine final performance and features.
The AeroMobil first took to the skies last year as version 2.5. According to the company, the new version was developed and built in the 10 months after the release of version 2.5 and is "very close to the final product."
“I’m very happy with what we were able to achieve in such a short time with the team of only 12 people," says AeroMobil co-founder and CTO Stefan Klein. "AeroMobil 3.0 is not the end of a challenging project, it’s the beginning of a whole new adventure which may change the way how we look at the personal transport in the future."
The new prototype was designed by Klein and the company's other co-founder Juraj Vaculik. It is built from predominantly the same materials as will be used for the final product and has all of the main features that will be present. These include avionics equipment, autopilot and an advanced parachute deployment system.
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The primary use for the AeroMobil 3.0 is to test and improve its final performance, feature-set and characteristics. It has been tested in real flight conditions since this October and has entered a regular flight-testing program. In addition to having already been certified by the Slovak Federation of Ultra-Light Flying, the AeroMobil 3.0 has been designed so that it would achieve certification in the EU as both a car and a light sport aircraft.
AeroMobil could go on sale from 2017 ,stocks are expected to be limited so if you want to call yourself a ‘pilot’ then definitely you should look forward for it!
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