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Japan's first test of flying car with pilot


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With the pandemic crushing the pace of innovation, most flying car projects backed by American tech giants have remained grounded. But a Japanese startup is quietly taking a manned prototype to the sky and aims to make travel by flying taxi a reality by 2023.

Tokyo-based SkyDrive, showed off a test flight of its SD-03 flying car model earlier this month in the Japanese city of Toyota; a video was released on Friday. The single-seat car, powered by a battery and four pairs of propellers, was lifted to six feet above the ground and hovered in a netted test area for about five minutes. Most significantly, the car had a pilot on board.

It was SkyDrive’s first manned flight with the SD-03 model.

https://observer.com/2020/08/japan-skydrive-test-manned-flying-car-vtol/

https://techxplore.com/news/2020-08-japan-car-ground-person-aboard.html

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Driver! Follow that cab! 

....never mind 

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