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Airbus Reveals Flying Car Concept — Is This The Future of Cars?
Airbus flying car concept Pop.Up System can transform into a car or quadcopter depending on where you want to go.
Airbus and legendary coachbuilder Italdesign have revealed a concept for a self-flying car capable of operating both on the ground and in the air and intends to test it later this year.
Airbus and Italdesign call their creation the 'Pop.Up System', which comprises the artificial intelligence platform that uses what it knows about any individual user, and possible routes and transportation options to discover the best travel options.
The primary vehicle itself is a passenger capsule, which holds the rider and can be joined with either ground and air modules. Also, Airbus suggests, the flying car can be paired with Hyperloop systems down the line once that technology becomes more widely accessible.
The concept flying car is aimed to work with others to form a network that can be summoned on demand, with riders hailing a ride from an app on their mobile device.
The capsule-based design can connect to either ground or air transportation modules, letting customers specify their chosen method of transit. The Pop.Up System is also intended to be used in conjunction with other, existing transportation methods for maximum effectiveness.
The Airbus flying car concept is designed with a monocoque carbon fibre capsule measuring 2.6 metres long, 1.4 metres high, and 1.5 metres wide. The flying car can transform itself into a city car by directly coupling to the ground module, which features a carbon-fibre chassis and is battery powered.
For megacity journeys with high congested traffic, the capsule detaches from the ground module and is carried by a 5/ 4.4-metre air module propelled by eight counter-rotating rotors. With this configuration, the Pop.Up System converts to an urban self-piloted air vehicle.
Once travellers arrive at their destination, the air and ground modules with the flying car autonomously return to dedicated recharge stations and wait for their next riders.
The ground module has two electric motors making a combined 79bhp with a range of 129km. The flying module with four motors produces 181bhp and has a range of around 97km. Airbus says the Pop.Up System flying car will recharge in 15 minutes.
Till the flying car becomes a reality, the current ground four-wheeled cars rule the roads, below is an extensive photo gallery of the next-generation Maruti Suzuki Swift hatchback, which can be easily driven around congested roads of a city.
