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The Verge April 21, 2017 · Watch this all-electric ‘flying car’ take its first test flight. 25M Views Oscar del Rosario Like Show more reactions Comment Share Top Comments 183K183K 583,010 Shares 10K Comments Comments Oscar del Rosario Add to the conversation... Sebastian Addams Sebastian Addams Hopefully the governments of the world will start planning where these aerocars can land and take off from, licenses, autopilots and all other general legislative requirements before the technology is perfected. There's nothing worse then have great tech that is ready and being held back by lagging governments who fail to plan! 1K Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 41w 94 Replies Jack Bruce Jack Bruce Am I the only one who noticed that Vertical Take Off and Landing spells VTOL not VLOT? Or is it just a new version Ive not heard of before? 225 Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 41w 53 Replies Peter Abdis Peter Abdis Unless you live where all of your electricity is supplied by solar, calling this vehicle "zero-emission" is a misnomer. All it does is defer the emissions to the electric company. And that doesn't count whatever emissions were created during the manufacture. 186 Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 41w · Edited 43 Replies Voo Abraham Bernard Voo Abraham Bernard I hope the government are starting to plan the rules on flying these machines otherwise I could imagine the number of accidents and illegal border crossing going up. 152 Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 41w 43 Replies Daniel Friis Daniel Friis A big reason why batteries are not a good way to fly long distances is their energy/kg. The more weight you have on the aircraft the more enegy you need to keep it up. Diesel holds about 8 times more energy per kilogram. You need to use more energy lif...See More 87 Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 41w 54 Replies Darren Li Darren Li So why's this not referred as a personal aircraft but a flying car? It just flies with limited ability to drive on ground, like any planes or helos. 98 Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 41w 12 Replies Anthony Wohler Anthony Wohler Not feasable in any way. If i have a fault on my car the engine dies i loose all power i just roll to a stop. If you have a fault 300ft up you drop like a stone into the nearest school/hospital/shopping center as you hit the ground the lipo battery...See More 74 Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 41w 47 Replies Lois Angelu Saro Lois Angelu Saro This may be the prototype that will change the world a few decades now. Remember when only a few rich people owned cars? And the first models were horrible? Remember the first models of planes? Look at us now. Give it some time, then it will take over the world as we know it. 60 Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 41w 13 Replies Blair Atwell Blair Atwell If you stop the video, showing the internal ducting, it looks like it has a foam construction. It seems easily possible to make a lightweight RC prototype, but increased weight of production model plus the passenger/s, bigger battery, avionics, etc. might make this harder than it seams. So, how much did this prototype weigh?😉 48 Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 41w · Edited 14 Replies Rico Khan Rico Khan An elitist solution to another pervasive problem. Typical. Go in a flying car to evade and escape traffic congestion in the cities. Path of least resistance. Good bye, plebes. Too bad you rabble are stuck on the ground still using old fashioned wh...See More 106 Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 24w · Edited 54 Replies Rossana Villena Rossana Villena I have been waiting for an invention like this... a car that is able to fly or some kind of transportation that can be used individually and halt the destruction of natural environments, especially forests!!🌲 I hope this is a step forward to it and hav...See More 54 Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 41w 30 Replies Zar Raz Zar Raz These would have to be controlled solely by artificial intelligence autopilot and gps navigation that communicates with other aircraft aswell as being fitted with multiple parachutes as a standard. 30 Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 41w 5 Replies Dave George Dave George This technology will only work if it's fully automated... people can barely drive on the ground; the last thing we need are people blindly flying in all directions at will. 18 Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 10w · Edited 3 Replies Craig Stewart Craig Stewart I cannot wait until these become an every day reality for us. Two years in we can expect the ' hold the phone, weve fucked it again people, these electric jet motors exhale nox gas, causing cancer, pubic crabs and gonorrhea . switch back to diesel or we'll thump you for some kind of unjustified tax' 16 Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 41w 2 Replies Philip Chaaya Philip Chaaya They should start using this for ambulances and rescue teams first. I don't think ppl are ready to fly yet, some still can't drive properly. Regardless, even if it was made accessible for the public, the insurance alone would cost a fortune. ...See More 15 Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 41w 4 Replies Kristoph Jong Mathers Kristoph Jong Mathers I may be wrong but I think the intention is to have them completely computer controlled, we wouldn't be letting any yahoo steer them. If they were computer controlled and networked it would be pretty trivial to keep them from running in to each other. 12 Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 41w 11 Replies Majed Elshaar Majed Elshaar People would need to basically be pilots with flight school training to be able to pilot these. Most people who drive can't drive well. Everyday I'm shocked at how terrible people are at driving. Those same people flying would be a nightmare. 12 Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 41w Steve Shon Steve Shon People can barely drive a car, pilots are showing up to work drunk. The last thing people need is this. Very cool but people don't deserve this because they'll just ruin it. This is why we can't have cool things. 11 Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 41w 3 Replies Eric Baumann Eric Baumann 'They say it can mitigate traffic issues in congested cities' I'm gonna call bullshit there. No intelligent city is going to allow these things to fly between buildings like Star Wars or some sci fi movie. What happens if the thing stalls, either by engine or some aerodynamic issue? It falls to the ground, possibly killing a bunch of people on the sidewalk? 10 Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 41w 8 Replies Dennis Layag Javelosa Dennis Layag Javelosa A lot of liability issue , it will increase the mortality rate of private transport . I imagine this thing flying in the path of bigger air transport vehicles putting a lot people endanger for one sole purpose to go one place faster by 10-30 minutes . It not going to happen unless there is highway or virtual road up in the sky to give this technology a safe reason to have. 10 Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 38w 10 Replies Gary Morris Gary Morris Brilliant 👍👍 Never gonna happen , as said before it's not a car , legislation,license, etc .why not just buy a helicopter,there available now if you hadn't noticed.Saying that good job 👍 10 Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 41w 2 Replies Ross Gremillion Ross Gremillion April Letard this will help with your road rage lol 1 Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 23w 2 Replies Erskine Dale Erskine Dale looks cool, but whoever made the video has very little experience with aircraft. VTOL vs VLOT. A flying car can drive on the road and fly. Calling the many ducted fans turbines is a stretch. 6 Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 41w Rex Anthony Knight Rex Anthony Knight Given the number of spatially unaware incompetents who currently struggle to handle two dimensional ( actually three, when we include that vital one, time ) space yet manage to obtain driving licences, the potential for collisions will increase expon...See More 5 Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 41w Esteban Ceniceros Esteban Ceniceros With all the 9/11 scares by the globalist Lizards and increased security measures at every possible checkpoint and then some, the Lizards want to bring this out??? And can you imagine that, say, 1 million citizens of NYC flying around in these things??? If these ever get released, only a privileged few (like the financiers of this project) could ever afford one. In the meantime, I'll keep walking with my own feet. 5 Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 8w 3 Replies Valentin Botev Valentin Botev No, that can't be used as a car but it can easily replace cars after a hundred years. This "flying car" may be environmentally friendly but 1st of all it will probably cost a fortune for the average person,secondly, people need time to get used to these "cars". In this video there is basically a car my grandchildren will drive(fly) :D. 4 Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 41w 1 Reply Dean Reed Dean Reed I understand they are preparing for a test in my home state of Texas. To put this puppy to the ultimate test, our state will have it piloted by a drunk twenty five year old high school dropout and an 87 year old deaf and legally blind convict who was scheduled for execution but received a last minute stay of execution because the state penal system ran low on drugs normally utilized to facilitate legal executions. 4 Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 41w Justin Wilkes Justin Wilkes We already have flying cars. They are called aircraft and you're still going to need a pilot's licence and you're still going to have to follow Fly Zone restrictions for public safety and noise pollution. 4 Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 41w Bob Brown Bob Brown Once again...we can never fly this in public. Just imagine millions of them in your neighborhood, all over your head and streets at the same time running out of power...36 engine malfunctions....the occupants texting or messing with their children. The chaos and carnage will be insane. Good recreational vehicle in a controlled circumstance and that's all! 6 Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 22w · Edited 3 Replies Colm MacGabhann Colm MacGabhann These sound neat. But even if they prove feasible, I imagine they would be subject to the same flight restrictions in cities as helicopters... and therefore not something everyone could just call in wherever. 3 Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 41w · Edited A Train A Train Why... why do people bother trying to make flying cars? This is not a new idea. People have been creating successful flying cars for decades but very few people buy them. Why? The answer is simple. Here in the USA (and probably everywhere else in ...See More 2 Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 9w 1 Reply Ashu Srivastava Ashu Srivastava I think flying cars would really be a chaotic idea. Imagine a sky with no lanes, turning points, traffic lights, just flying cars flying in a random way with no ATC or similar thing. This is so hypothetical concept in my opinion. What do u think guys?? 2 Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 41w 19 Replies Richard K. Hopkins Richard K. Hopkins Y'all are all talking about regulations and I'm figuring that the FAA will just go with standard aircraft regulations, because that's what these are. My questions revolve around things like, what's the battery life? How fast does it go once you're in ...See More 1 Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 41w Jose XZx Jose XZx Think I'll stick to my car.. When something stops working on that it just slow down to a stop.. I'm all good with randomly falling out the sky because my wife forgot to have the god damn oil changed last fucking weekend.. Bravo Jasmine BRAVO.. 1 Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 2w · Edited 1 Reply Eduardo Diaz Rivera Eduardo Diaz Rivera Great, one more "smart" flying device of many more to come. BUT, what about air traffic??? That's the main problem, still unsolved, even for jet airliners is still a very complex and risky problem. Imagine lots of those unsafe (for grounders) flying wh...See More 1 Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 1w 1 Reply Mike Weindl Mike Weindl I'm sure everyone realizes that this will only be transportation for the filthy rich. Unless you're paying big bucks for it don't count yourself in for flying in one of these. at least not for a long time. 1 Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 9w 2 Replies John Day John Day So, experimental car. What is the difference between an experimental car and an experimental airplane, answer none. John Denver flew an experimental airplane and look where it got him. So now we’re going to have airplane crashes all over the earth on a...See More 1 Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 8w · Edited 2 Replies Jack Hubbard Jack Hubbard That is REALLY cool, BUT.. when are inventors going to stop using propeller driven vehicles and figure out how to use magnetic or some other form of propulsion. This is really neat, but an airplane by any other name is still just that.. an airplane 1 Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 41w Brett Northey Brett Northey I think it's great that people are advancing ideas like this - but this concept is limited by the propulsion system IMO- this is where the boffins need to concentrate their collective minds- the next generation of energy technology - not just the propulsion system needs to be developed- otherwise it's just tech-gimmick. 1 Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 40w 2 Replies Stephen Stewart Stephen Stewart These concepts have been around for years. This one looks to be the least developed and most dangerous of them all. The VTOL design is very problematic and can only be flown by the most skilled pilot. The Oprey and F35 have shown us that even with bill...See More 1 Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 31w Joel West Joel West Fear not Eric, this is not an ET. It is just the next version of Uber-like transportation. Imagine the confusion if one of these flew near the desert conference near 29 Palms. 😂🤣🤪 1 Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 2w Orly Yousef Flores Orly Yousef Flores Development in all field of sciences could not and should not be curtailed as it is inherent right for man kind....But legislators and other law making bodies should be quick enough to realized adoption of relevant rules to govern such developments to avoid misuse of such but only for the good of mankind..... 1 Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 31w 2 Replies Glenn Ireland Glenn Ireland Yeah I don’t think flying cars you’re ever going to really take off in the market because think about it you’re out in your front lawn and all of a sudden you get hit with a McDonald’s bag from a flying car can imagine all the trash people will be thro...See More Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 2w Sam Grant Sam Grant Sam Barnes love how they are marketing this as a car. By any standards it is just a personal plane with vtol capability. Interested to see the numbers behind it as well 1 Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 41w Giuliano Scappini-Perier Giuliano Scappini-Perier People are still more concerned at the fact that you can crash it into a building or perform bad acts but anyone who has that idea is going to do it regardless of the technology they have on them and obviously you'll need a pilots license not everyone will be driving one of these 1 Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 41w James Bunce James Bunce Ok, do you actually BELIEVE they will just let anyone fly a car capable of 300kmh - 186mph- anywhere near an airport like JFK, LAX or anyother major airport? NO! In Fact, the restrictions on even getting a License to fly it will be so full of Red Tape...See More Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 16w 1 Reply Ralph Myers Ralph Myers How is it a "flying car"? There doesn't appear to be any form of steerage so that it can be driven on the highway. Just some kind of dolly system to roll it to the take-off point. And, the wings don't appear to fold or retract. Just an aircraft, not a car! Or, am I just missing something? 🤓 1 Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 22w Joe Lounsbury Joe Lounsbury The reason why batteries weigh so much is they contain all their oxidizer and don’t spit out their burnt fuel. The advantage of a battery is when it goes higher in altitude it won’t lose power like a naturally aspirated piston engine. So these planes ...See More Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 8w Alberto Cano Alberto Cano ... And whats the fligt time for the plane? Because if its 10 minutes then It's not viable. And it looks like it does not pack too much batteries... So I call bs. 2 Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 41w · Edited 5 Replies Dave Guz Dave Guz Should come equipped with parachutes with max load of 3k pounds incase of inflight hiccupa or loss of power id feel better and so would passengers they have safety features along with airbags for inflight accodents 1 Manage LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 41w View more comments