The industrial giant NEC has managed to fly his drone looking like a flying car for about sixty seconds, three meters high.
Immediately crossing the Channel on his Flyboard, Franky Zapata wants to give life to another of his childhood dreams: to develop a flying car before the end of the year. The Marseillais has competition since NEC Corp, Japanese juggernaut of computing and communication, presented Monday its own "flying car" (obligatory quotation marks). Even if we are still far from science fiction and the taxi of Korben Dallas, the advances are very visible.
The drone car climbed up to 3 meters in height
As you can see when you watch the video, NEC Corp's flying car is actually a four-bladed electric drone, and it flew rather than stolen, even though it held a good minute, with some damaged eardrums on the way.
But the intention is commendable, and the progress is significant, the "theft" being picked up by our associates from the Associated Press, and not by a 100% corporate camera of the company. Another positive point: the flying drone car is mounted at a height of 3 meters.
" Japan is a densely populated country, which means that flying cars could significantly reduce road traffic," said Koji Okada, one of the project's leaders.
Japan wants to be a pioneer in this area
As a precaution, the test took place in a cage, on land belonging to the company NEC. This one had more and more times renewed the inspections of the vehicle and the warnings to the journalists (not to stick too much to the cage, for example) so that everything is perfect.
This public demonstration reinforces the ambition of the Japanese government, which has set itself the goal of offering the public flying cars by 2030. In addition to the massive funding allocated, the authorities have a field of play that can not be wider to test the various prototypes, since the tests are conducted in the Fukushima region, sadly devastated by a nuclear disaster in 2011 north-east of Japan.
For now, the flying car of NEC (which will face competition from Uber Air
or Toyota, who develop their models) is primarily intended for delivery.
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