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Bizarre real-life 'flying car' can fly right over the top of traffic jams

By T.K. Randall
February 22, 2025

Image: Driving Car
Credit: Santeri Viinamäki / CC BY-SA 4.0 (adapted) It seems that companies have been vowing to deliver on the promise of flying cars for decades now, but this latest prototype by Alef Aeronautics is perhaps the closest thing we've seen to the real deal so far.

The car certainly looks unusual - almost like something out of a 1960s Gerry Anderson TV series - with an all-black design and a centralized cockpit where the driver and passengers would be situated.

The first footage of it in action (see below) was released recently and it does look quite impressive.

"While previous videos exist of cars driving and using a runway to take off, videos of tethered flights, and eVTOL flying taxis taking off, this is the first publicly released video of a car driving and taking off vertically," the company said in a statement.According to CEO Jim Dukhovny, the car's controls take a mere 15 minutes to learn.

"This drive and flight test represents an important proof of technology in a real-world city environment," he said. "We hope it will be a moment similar to the Wright Brothers' Kitty Hawk video, proving to humanity that new transportation is possible."

But is this vehicle truly a car ?

While it can drive and act like a car on the road, in the air it operates more like a drone with a series of eight propellers providing lift and steering.

You can check out footage of it in action in the video below.


Source: Mail Online

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