Flying car 'does work and does exist,' company says on release of first flight video

The Manila Times

Flying car 'does work and does exist,' company says on release of first flight video  The concept of flying cars has long been a mainstay in imaginings of the future, featuring in films like 'Blade Runner', 'The Fifth Element', and 'Back to the Future'. Alef Aeronautics believe they are one step closer to making that future a reality. The California based company has released videos showing their flying car, an ultralight version of the Alef Model Zero, taking off vertically and traveling over a parked truck. This is the first publicly released video of a car driving and taking off vertically,' the company said in a news release.  REUTERS / ALEF AERONAUTICS VIDEO  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe  Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net    Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion    Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital  Sign up to our newsletters: https://tmt.ph/newsletters   Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer  Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein   #themanilatimes #worldnews #cars #technology

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00:30The significance of this video is we hope, we really hope that it will have a similar

00:36impact as the Wright Brothers video in the sense that it proves to the humanity that

00:42the new mode of transportation is possible.

00:47It has the independently verifiable proof that this new mode of transportation does

00:56exist and we hope it will start some kind of a new market, new economy for this new

01:06mode of transportation which we call flying cars.

01:25Right now, for most people, for the general consumer, it's prohibitively expensive because

01:46it's expensive for us to produce one, but it's because it's a very low volume production

01:51and it's very inefficient, so it's not optimized for manufacturing.

01:57As we go further and it will be optimized for manufacturing and as the volume increases,

02:04the end goal, again, it's not going to be the next year or the year after that, the

02:07end goal, the end goal, it should be actually the same level or less expensive than Toyota

02:15Corolla Ford Focus or anything like that because it's less complex.

02:19We hope that most people will use more flying cars than the ground cars because that will

02:25relieve traffic, that will make the world actually move more efficiently, will make

02:30people get to their destination more efficiently, and so the infrastructure would change because

02:36the million cars in the air would probably need a different kind of regulation even though

02:42it actually already exists, there are already highways in the sky.

02:46It's probably the best search and rescue vehicle ever created in history because whatever

02:50car cannot get and the helicopter cannot get or an airplane cannot get, the flying car

02:56could get.

02:58Not only because it can both drive vertically, take off and literally land between the trees,

03:04also it doesn't have huge wings, it can literally fly right next to the building to, for example,

03:12somebody from the balcony and so on, so it can get places where literally no other type

03:18of vehicle in history can get.

03:20When as far as the exact year, but I think it's going to be a very, very gradual process.

03:26It's good for many, many reasons to have a gradual process, to get it to consumers so

03:30people slowly get used to it, see how safe it is, see how quiet it is, see the benefits

03:38of it, not only for themselves, but for example, for search and rescue vehicles.

03:43So it's a slow gradual process where people are going to see 1, 10, 50, 100 and so on.

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