The Silicon valley, known for its high tech innovations, gave forth a great shot last year. This shot was clearly materialized this year by Kitty Hawk's CEO, Sebastian Thrun under the sponsor of himself and Google's Cofounder, Larry Page.
These flying vehicles have only a single man carrying capacity, with no space for extra luggage.
Controlling the flying car requires no licence and is relatively easy as it uses only some sort of a Joystick control.
It was said that the flying car can go as fast as 20 miles per hour when manned by a professional. An average being will fly it at 6 miles per hour, really fast a speed as compared to ground cars.
The advent of space cars will in the near future overtake ground cars in terms of commercialisation for obvious reasons; safety, no traffic hold ups... What may stand as a hindrance will be the cost price at which a flying car is sold.
In 2016, Terrafugia had forecasted that her first flying cars would be sold at a price of US$279,000. That's roughly about 153,450,000 FCFA which really is a lot of money for an average citizen.
Nonetheless, as time counts down, the price will also get falling as economics basically proves. Technology on its side only gets better and better.
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These flying vehicles have only a single man carrying capacity, with no space for extra luggage.
Controlling the flying car requires no licence and is relatively easy as it uses only some sort of a Joystick control.
It was said that the flying car can go as fast as 20 miles per hour when manned by a professional. An average being will fly it at 6 miles per hour, really fast a speed as compared to ground cars.
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The advent of space cars will in the near future overtake ground cars in terms of commercialisation for obvious reasons; safety, no traffic hold ups... What may stand as a hindrance will be the cost price at which a flying car is sold.
In 2016, Terrafugia had forecasted that her first flying cars would be sold at a price of US$279,000. That's roughly about 153,450,000 FCFA which really is a lot of money for an average citizen.
Nonetheless, as time counts down, the price will also get falling as economics basically proves. Technology on its side only gets better and better.