Will Cars Fly in the Future

Sci-fi fact or sci-fi fi?

About has shook the cab business and tried to bring unmanned cars to our streets. Now, the enterprise wants to have carpooling opportunities in the sky until 2020. About is not alone with his work for flying cars. For many of us, the idea of the car in flight is tantamount to the future, as are silvery overalls and eating good foods in the shape of a birth control pills.

That dream hasn't come true yet, so what about cars soaring? That was the classical notion of a real airplane: a airplane that could somehow fly. Ian Fleming was a fictional enthusiast of cars on the move and in 1963 wrote his novel Chitty Chitty Chitty Bang Bang about the notion.

He also incorporated a floating automobile into his James Bond novel (1964) and the following movie The Man with the Golden Weapon. This concept is predicated on a wheeled vehicle that can be driven on the roads but can also fly if necessary. Sci-fi authors and filmmakers have often waived the need for future cars to ever be driven on the highways.

Instead, the "cars" are just small planes like Anakin Skywalker's in the Star Wars movie Attack of the Clones. Recent airplane proclamations range from single-seater, multi-part drones to street vehicles that turn into lightweight airplanes and small craft that float above the surface.

Apparently, almost every small airborne craft that can transport a passenger is now called a airborne one. Obviously, they're just some kind of small plane. Businesses are working hard to make their planes "safe enough", hoping to convince regulatory agencies and government officials that the cars can be given life.

However, a floating automobile could drop from the skies and kill not only its passengers, but also potential spectators. Ehang, the China-based airline, is planning to provide a chute for its Dubai aircraft fleet. Apparently, this will take a passenger from the top of one Dubai tower to the top of another.

In the event that the chute is triggered, it is not clear whether the craft can in any way check where it is landing or how safe it is. A large part of the flight mechanism in the current aerospace sector is automatic. Considering the challenge of a passenger who flies in comparison to piloting a motorglider, and the effort to minimize manual errors in air travel, it is even more likely that airborne cars will be automatized so that no manual pilots are required.

However, there will be a difference between current aeronautical experience and cars that fly. A large part of our jets' remarkable security performance is due to improved airplane servicing methods and our ability to understand errors. The small aeroplane case is unlikely to allow such strict use.

Instead, airborne cars will be less complicated than today's jetliners, and the latest demonstration vehicles show just that. Using a large number of small electrical engines, e.g. in the all-electric Lilium airplane, dramatically reduce service complexities. When we could fly from our rooftop (and there's a pod on our rooftop that's ideal for a fly car), the ride would only take 8mins.

We got a dual thrust, firstly by going with an avarage velocity of (let's say) 100 km/h and secondly by driving up the most straight road, only 13 km. Such an exemplary trip lies far within the possibilities of the today presented aircrafts. Obviously, the government may require us to adhere to air lanes reserved for cars in service, so a straight line is not always an optional itinerary.

Many things about car aviation are tough, but some issues can get simpler. There' s much more room for cars if you have 3 dimensional room for travelling, as long as the navigational challenge is over. In self-propelled cars, the movement into the skies even facilitates some aspect of scheduling and routing your car.

It' s still too early to know how the economy of airborne cars will work. In view of the major legislative barriers, the security problems to be resolved and the absence of a specific supporting structure for aviation cars (such as take-off and landings and loading points for all-electric aircraft), it is hard to assess what a journey should be.

Existing non fly car-sharing agencies like Uber seem to be working with a huge outflow. Consumers in over-vehicles are expected to pay less than half of their real travel expenses on an average basis, but the firm hopes to offset some of these by introducing unmanned cars.

Since the probability that cars that fly are without a driver is even greater, the economy may be favorable. So much remains to be done before the flight of cars becomes everyday life. However, the flight engine itself is only one part of a very complicated system. As with groundbound self-propelled cars, it is likely that if they ever pass, airborne cars will first appear in certain prioritized areas.

Meanwhile for the remainder of us we can walk around in silvery overalls and eat food in a tablet before we can drive in a flying vehicle.