Are flying cars coming to the market?

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The German Volocopter company has licensed the first commercial use of its Velocity model electric flying taxi.

Films have been made in Hollywood about how science can change our lives in the future. For example, as shown in the 1982 film Blade Runner, flying vehicles are speeding along with the skies of the future city of Los Angeles. The way technology has been advancing since then, perhaps Hollywood filmmakers could not have imagined then. Although many of the vehicles they imagined could fly in the sky are still imaginary things seen on the silver screen, flying taxis have become a reality.

Flying taxis are now going to play an essential role in our travels, careers, and livelihoods in the coming decades.

Advances in battery technology, computers, and science are so significant that inventors are now building a variety of flying cars for personal use – as well as guiding them through the skies.

But the challenge is enormous.

How to see these flying go?

Although not like the flying vehicle of the science fiction story seen in the movie, there is something close to it.

Much smaller in size than commercial aircraft. Most are designed with propeller-like rotating fan or rotor instead of wings, so that cars can go up or down the sky steeplyThe biggest thing is that these flying cars are designed so that they can move quickly from one place to another, especially in congested cities so that people can reach their destination quickly.

It’sIt’s not too late for the 1962 Hollywood movie Blade Runner to come up with the idea of ​​a flying car.

However, at the moment, it is difficult to say how promising the air space market is.

However, several new companies have sprung up to build commercial aircraft, flying motorbikes, and private flying taxis.

Several entrepreneurial donors and car and airline companies are preparing to invest in this promising industry. They expect it to become a 1.5 trillion industry by 2040

Even Uber has started thinking about what their role will be in this flying taxi service. They are planning to do business under the name ”Uber Elevate”.

In the meantime, the aviation authority has begun work on outlining new air transport regulations and safety standards.

The German-based company Volokopter has licensed the first commercial use of their Velocity model electric flying taxi. According to the company company’s plan, this vehicle will fly without a pilot in the future.

Initially, only one passenger could board a flying taxi driven by Velocity. As a result, the fare for this ride will be a little higher.

But they hope that if confidence is created among passengers, they will develop self-propelled models, where drivers will not be needed. This vehicle will run on electricity, and the car will have no wings. Instead, the car will run on electricity supplied from nine batteries.

Vertiports will be set up at various places in big cities to pick up and drop off these flying taxis, such as airports. Since these taxis will rise (vertically) in the sky, they want to name the ports of these ups and downs.

Velocity will start its commercial flight in 2022.

“We don’tdon’t want it to be a hobby for the rich. We want it to be part of the big city integrated transportation system, ” says Fabian Nestman of the Volocopter Company.

Not a hobby toy

Initially, a ticket on a flight will cost 350 (৭ 280). But Fabian Nestman of the Volocopter company says their goal is to make the cost more competitive gradually. Uber companies like Uber Black have advanced services for a higher price, and they are thinking of that model of service “But we don’tdon’t want it to be a hobby for the rich. We want it to be part of an integrated transportation system for any person living in the big city,” he said. Nestman. “Just as everyone has the opportunity to travel on foot, by car or by bicycle, they will also have the opportunity to travel by air.”

Other companies have also begun partnering with existing carmakers to build their aircraft.

In Japan, for example, a new startup called SkyDrive is partnering with Toyota for a test flight of their fully electric-powered flying taxi. Their flying cab is said to be the worlds world’s smallest electric vehicle that can go straight up and down the sky.

The company successfully flew one of its vehicles in the vicinity of the aviation area this summer for a few minutes. It had a driver.

“There is a demand from consumers. But traffic-free alternative transportation has not yet been offered to people,” said Takako Wada, a spokesman for Sky-Drive.

“Sky-Drive is building their flying vehicles taking into account both consumer needs and technological advances.”

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The big carmakers and the aviation industry have already explored the demand in the flying car market. For example, the SD-03 flying car made by Japan’sJapan’s Sky Drive Company was piloted in the skies of Japan in August this year.

Many aircraft design companies also see this as a huge potential. Many companies believe that advanced technology can solve environmental and noise pollution in a car powered by electricity stored in batteries. In this case, they are working on their research and innovation.

The technology of lifting a vehicle vertically is still very new. In this case, also the work of making various designs is in progress.

Help in the way of the sky

Gravity Industries, a UK-based aeronautical company, says there is much technology to fly in the sky that is still limited in use. Such as the ”jetpack” of high horsepower they make. After which people can fly in the sky.

The company says it’s a lot like a racing car. By tying this device on the body and cutting the air with the gas or fuel energy stored in it.

But Richard Browning, the company company’s chief pilot, and founder, says, “Skills for using this technology are still limited to professionals or military trainees.”

“But the day may not be far off when superhero medical personnel will be able to decide whether a patient will fly into the sky after wearing such a device to reach emergency services quickly.” Much like Batman

M. Browning said he had recently teamed up with the ambulance department to carry out an experimental search and rescue operation after the jetpack in a remote mountainous area of ​​England.

The British company Gravity Industries has developed a jetpack attached to the body and flown in the sky. The company has experimentally used this technology in search and rescue operations in remote mountainous areas. The way to the top of the hill on foot is very inaccessible, and it takes at least 25 minutes to get there. And after the jetpack, Mr Browning got there in 90 seconds.

This test has shown the importance of such technology in emergency rescue where time is of the essence, where short intervals can save lives.

“The dream of air travel has been a dream for a long time,” says Parimal, director of NASA’sNASA’s Aeronautical Research Institute in Silicon Valley, California.

Copardecker.

“Now there is a real opportunity to create new aircraft using new technology that will deliver goods and services to places where aircraft cannot go.”

Mr Kopardekar is working at NASA’sNASA’s research center with automated aircraft technology that can be used to improve and expand air travel.

To make the road system of the sky suitable for a wide range of uses, many nuances have to be solved, which may not seem to be a problem at first glance.

When people move in such a sky, it is necessary to make sure that it is safe on the road of the sky. It is also essential to ensure that the vehicle has a valid license for movement and movement in the air. People need to have confidence in this new transport system. “Such traffic cannot be started commercially without a rigorous testing system,” said Mr Nestman, who is responsible for raising public awareness on behalf of their company.

“Adequate infrastructure needs to be created in the sky for such vehicles.”

Chinese businessman Zhao Daly has built a flying motorbike for himself. Last year he flew his test flight to China.

A traffic control system will also be required when fair vehicles start moving in the sky, like the air traffic control system at the airport for taking off and landing.

Control systems will also be needed to control the movement and movement of vehicles in the sky. Inventors say air traffic control systems need to be automated – UTM or unmanned traffic management.

”Rules of the Air”

Experts say there is no substitute for a fully automated system. However, there will be many new challenges. Not just cars or other vehicles flying in the sky, there will be many more types of risks in the sky, such as flying cosmic objects, birds, drones, and aircraft! It will be essential to control whether any of them are on the way.

As a result, safe passages have to be created, safe corridors in the sky for movement, and even parking arrangements in the sky if necessary.

That is why it will be necessary to make rules and regulations of air traffic to make the highways of the sky safe and risk-free.

It would be essential to create safety rules to avoid further risks in the sky, including drones flying over West London.

Car manufacturers and air transport managers need to be reassured that this new transportation system is equally safe for air passengers and those traveling on the ground below.

Mr NASA. Kopardekar and members of his team are researching the risks of such a traffic system in the city.

There will be various issues with air traffic in different cities – considering the complexity and density of the city, they have divided these issues into six categories. Based on that, they are modeling how much traffic should be automated and how many people should be controlled.

They create guidelines by analyzing the various security risks associated with bad or catastrophic weather, the risk of collisions with birds, and the sudden arrival of people flying jetpacks.

The absolute risk of colliding with a man flying in the sky was experienced by an American plane in October.

Cities such as New York, Hong Kong, and Beijing have reached maximum limits in road capacity. As a result, experts are now looking at no alternative but to look to the sky to keep economic growth and business afloat.

The European Aviation Safety Agency is also compiling a list of things that need to be done to make a flying car or another aircraft type suitable for flying, such as emergency exit doors and exits, safety measures in lightning, and proper cabin pressure in the air. Of course, it is essential to keep an eye on many details like control, etc. But one thing all experts agree is that with the increase in the number of cars in big cities like New York, Beijing, Hong Kong, and the resulting traffic jams, there is no alternative for these countries to build roads in the future to keep their business and economy afloat.

Rearrange the city

Traffic congestion has now become a massive problem for many cities around the world. This is because the road capacity of these countries has exceeded the limit.

Not only that, the toxic fumes emitted from cars on these roads are causing irreparable damage to the environment and human health.

Electric flying cars and their steep ascent technology will dramatically reduce pollution levels from such toxic emissions.

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The current layout of our cities will need to change as cars and vehicles begin to move across the sky.

However, experts say that the city’s structure also needs to be restructured to create air traffic. Now many high-rise houses are being built in the town. City architects need to think about making the city’scity’s tallest buildings in the future in a way that will allow them to create landing pads for flying cars or airplanes. In the end, urban planners will have to consider the construction of airways to connect high-rise buildings to reduce pressure on the ground.

They say that if the pressure of cars and roads on the ground is reduced, there will be an opportunity to makea the city more environmentally friendly by creating more green spaces, parks, and fields.

Maybe after 2040, in addition to moving on the earth, a new world of moving in the sky will be created. 

Many people’speople’s lives may be far above the ground. Walking on the ground may one day be a new experience for many.