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The first flying car, 'Model A,' approved by the FAA and it's 100% electric
(www.usatoday.com)
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You know what it also is? A purely theoretical 3D rendered vehicle that doesn't exist.
It's for real this time. Whether or not it will be a Tesla lemon, time will tell. But the FAA is generally EXTREMELY safety-conscious.
Cool, wheres that footage?
Guess we'll see. I don't have 300k to throw away getting one.
I remember a video we watched in an engineering class back in the early 2000s about a guy who was making "flying cars" that were tested and "flyable".
They still don't have a practical prototype.
There's a suspicious lack of real photos and video of this soon-to-be-ready vehicle that's set to ship to consumers in just 2½ years. Surely they're not still in the very early R&D phase, right?
The best actual photos I can find is of an oversized drone with a basic frame the size of a car, a "cockpit" in the middle that will barely fit 1 person, 8 propellers where the entire "car" would normally be in a car, and some light-weight foam side panels slapped on. No car engine or car wheels (except some small castors to roll it around).
Along with the (paraphrasing) "it's supposed to be a slow-moving vehicle while on the ground" comment in the article, I guess they're building a big drone with a small lawn mower motor to move you around on the ground.