Hyundai Unveiled a Flying Concept Car to Hover Over Traffic
Andrew Sztein — April 24, 2013 — Autos
Auto-manufacturer Hyundai had a heck of a surprise at their annual Idea Festival: a functional flying concept car prototype.
We can probably use the term 'car' here rather loosely as the flying concept has more in common with a military drone quadrocopter than any cars that you'd see on the road today. The flying concept car was demonstrated with a crash test dummy in the driver's seat while a red-cape clad Hyundai employee took the controls with a remote control.
The chances of regular consumers getting a chance to take a figurative spin in the flying concept car are rather low at the moment, but considering how long we've been promised by Sci-Fi movies and books that the flying car is coming, we're officially one step closer to the dream.
We can probably use the term 'car' here rather loosely as the flying concept has more in common with a military drone quadrocopter than any cars that you'd see on the road today. The flying concept car was demonstrated with a crash test dummy in the driver's seat while a red-cape clad Hyundai employee took the controls with a remote control.
The chances of regular consumers getting a chance to take a figurative spin in the flying concept car are rather low at the moment, but considering how long we've been promised by Sci-Fi movies and books that the flying car is coming, we're officially one step closer to the dream.
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