The vehicles themselves weren’t regulated, either - in fact, the U.S. When the first production automobiles hit American roads in 1895, anyone could drive them pretty much however they wanted to - there were no speed limits, stop signs, driver’s licenses, drunk-driving laws, insurance, or traffic police. The challenge: So, how do we balance our need for innovative urban transportation options with our need for passenger safety? One way is to look at the last invention to shake up personal transport: the automobile. “Aircraft flying in these layers will interact, and that’s where things get tricky,” she continued. “The space where these aircraft will operate is sandwiched between low-flying drones and the traditional airspace high above,” Savvy Verma, lead for airspace procedures at NASA’s Air Traffic Management eXploration (ATM-X) project, said in January. This is partly due to the technical challenge of developing flying cars with useful ranges (we still need lighter batteries with greater capacity), but also the need to ensure passengers, and people on the ground, are safe when many eVTOLs are in flight at one time. Safety first: But deployment of flying cars is notoriously slow moving. The hope is that the flying cars will be ready in time to prevent an increase in traffic congestion that’s expected to follow the flow of more people into urban areas (over the next 30 years, the share of people who live in cities is expected to increase from 50% to 70%).Ĭongestion has a negative impact on local economies, residents’ quality of life, and the environment (if the vehicles being used are powered by fossil fuels, which they overwhelmingly are), so less of it would have a myriad of benefits. “Aircraft flying in these layers will interact, and that’s where things get tricky.” Savvy Verma “When cities change, as populations move, the routes can move in a way that trains and rail, or highway infrastructure, cannot,” Harrison Wolf, the World Economic Forum’s Lead for Aerospace and Drones, said in 2020.
While Volkswagen’s Hover Car is very cool, it’s important to note that it is still a concept and that it is still a far cry from the actual “car of the future” that we want to drive.This would require less upfront cost than building the infrastructure needed for more ground transportation - roads, railways, subway lines, etc.
The car will be controlled by a nice-looking joystick that, based on the video below, is quite easy to use.
It has distance sensors that keep the craft from colliding with other vehicles on the road. The Hover Car is a two-seater zero emissions vehicle that hovers above the ground using electromagnetic road networks. The People’s Car Project debuted in China last year. For more hover car goodness, check out the video after the break. Volkswagen studied more than 119,000 ideas submitted to its People’s Car Project website and chose three concepts, the Hover Car concept being one of them. The German car maker challenged a few of the folks in China to submit their ideas of what the car of the future must look like. But little did we know that Volkswagen is already working on a hover car concept. So far we’ve seen a few of them, in movies that is. You must steer it, like you would a normal vehicle, but the only difference is that it’s flying in the air.
This Volkswagen hover car is a concept vehicle that is used for personal transportation in the same way a modern car is employed.
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