“Maybe
10 years from now, it needs to be automated," "With an algorithm, it would be managed
much better by a computer than by man”
AeroMobil chief
communications officer Stefan Vodocz speaking about the AeroMobil Hybrid Car-Plane,
a finalist at the SXSW (South by Southwest) Interactive Innovation Awards to be
held on Monday March 16th 2015
People
have been dabbling with the idea of Autonomous aircraft that can fly themselves.
The
example of ASTRAEA (Autonomous Systems Technology Related Airborne Evaluation
& Assessment) being developed by BAE systems in conjunction with others as
noted in my blog
article entitled “ASTRAEA
Consortium makes first Inaugural flight of an Autonomous Passenger Aircraft in
April 2013 - Greek Goddeses Daughter of Zeus are now The Kings of Summer”.
But
what about the idea of fully-autonomous flying Cars?
AeroMobil, a startup from Slovakia that
has been designing Flying Cars since 1989, has built a working prototype Hybrid
of a Car and an aeroplane as reported in the article “What
comes after the flying Car? A self-flying Car”, published March 14, 2015
12:57 PM PDT by Richard Nieva, CNET News.
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AeroMobil is a finalist in the SXSW (South
by Southwest) Interactive Innovation Awards slated to take place on Monday
March 16th 2015 where their crazy concept for a hybrid plane-Car will be on
display. The AeroMobil Hybrid Car-Plane
prototype, which will be on display, took 10 months to produce and only needs a
runway that's 800m in length.
Potentially,
if the AeroMobil Hybrid Car-Plane
prototype was a fully autonomous craft, it could potentially fly passengers on
500 mile journeys hassle free, without the need for the owner to have a pilot’s
license, as the Car would do all the flying.
Effectively,
this would be a lot like those Autonomous Cars that the British Ministry of Transport is trying to jumpstart
for US$29 million to achieve a US$299 billion boost in productivity as well as
tourist arrivals as explained in my blog article
entitled “How
Britain will make US$29 billion from Driverless Cars by 2025 - British
Government's US$29 million Driverless Vehicles Gamble”, but in the air, not
on the ground.
Even
better, it would also save on the cost of building road infrastructure, as with
flying Cars, roads would become obsolete as the sky would be our highways. But
is this technology concept a real thing or a flight of fantasy?
AeroMobil Hybrid Car-Plane
prototype - How Autonomous Flying-Vehicles will revolutionize Road Trips in the
Future
It's
an update to the original AeroMobil 3.0
that made its debut in November 2014 as stated in the article “Meet
the AeroMobil 3.0, a crazy beautiful flying Car”, published November 6,
2014 10:28 AM PST by Michael Franco, CNET News.
Take a gander at the AeroMobil Hybrid Car-Plane
prototype, which is shown in the picture below.
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It
originally made its debut at the Pioneers Festival in Vienna on Wednesday
October 29 2014.
Their
first Hybrid Car-Plane prototype, the AeroMobil
2.5 was release in 2010 and was fully certified by the Slovak Federation of
Ultra-Light Flying (SFUL) as authorized by the Civil Aviation Authority of
Slovak Republic.
So
this thing is real and it can both drive and fly, very similar to the
Terrafugia TF-X Flying Hybrid Car as describe
in my blog
article entitled “Terrafugia’s
Flying Hybrid 2013 Terrafugia TF-X to debut in the Fourth Quarter of 2013 -
Shara Tibkin's Sweet Dreams of The Jetsons wants Christina Aguilera's Your Body”
that made its debut at the New York
International Auto Show in April 2012.
It
eventually made its debut in August 2013 at the EAA AirVentures air show, demonstrating
to all Americans that the idea of a Flying Car was a real thing as noted in the
article “At
Oshkosh, Terrafugia's flying Car finally soars for the public”, published
August 1, 2013 6:00 AM PDT by Daniel Terdiman, CNET
News.
Autonomous Flying Cars
may soon be a Reality – Mind Controlled Cars a possibly safety solution
So
the technology is not only long in coming, but the current prototypes are real.
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The
main problem relates to air safety, as aptly demonstrated by the recent crash of
a Maverick Flying Vehicle in October 2014 in Marion County, Florida as reported
in the article “Flying Car
crashes and burns in Florida”, published October 21, 2014 3:29 PM PDT by
Chris Matyszczyk, CNET News.
A
solution to this is to not only trust the flight of the vehicle to an
Autonomous AI (Artificially Intelligent) System but to also use manual Remote Control
intervention.
This
can be done via a human that can log into the Hybrid Car-Plane remotely and
connect to it with their mind over a radio link as described in my blog article
entitled “@TEKEVER
Brainflight Drone using Beta Waves – How Autonomous All-Electric Airplanes are
controlled with Windmills in your Mind” take over control of the aircraft
and bring it down safely.
So,
Hybrid Car-Plane, anyone?
Here’s
the Link:
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