Flying cars have been an unfulfilled fantasy for many decades. On the other hand, small jet-powered helicopters, the kind TV stations use for traffic monitoring, are still fairly expensive to buy and retain a trained pilot. But what if one could super-size an electric drone, make it large enough to seat two humans, and take advantage of the flight stability and easy of flying of a drone? Then you'd have the Volocopter. Here's an article and embedded video that shows the flight tests from late last year. I can think of all kinds of things one could do with such a machine, assuming it's not outrageously expensive. Farmers could monitor and treat remote crops. Emergency services could deliver food and medicine to places cut off by floods. You name it. It's not the classic flying car, but a whole new kind of thinking ... with zero emissions.
Check It Out: The Volocopter: A Different Approach to a Flying Car
