The Slovakian car company AeroMobil showed off a future vehicle that could air on the ground at the Paris Air Show exhibition this year.
Vehicles flying from AeroMobil that look unique with a round muzzle and wings can be folded according to the plan will be produced in series in 2020.
"Once you land at the airport, you can turn a plane into a car and walk to wherever you want," Simon Bendrey, deputy chief of AeroMobil engineering, told AFP on Wednesday (28/06/2017).
AeroMobil claims to have received a number of orders, although the vehicle was sold for 1.2-1.5 million euros (about Rp 18-23 billion)
The flying car that originally only appeared in a number of films would become a reality following many technology companies that developed such vehicles.
Flight Era
Bruno Sainjon, the head of the French aerospace laboratory (ONERA), on the sidelines of the Paris Air Show, said the true future is "an on-demand air transport system, which is clearly the beginning of a new era of flight," such as a flying taxi service.
Flying cars are not just something that humans can ride, "because it's too risky," Pascal Pincemin, a freight specialist at Deloitte, told AFP. He envisions the existence of a digital platform that manages new traffic, including in the air.
The idea, according to him, is to develop a vertical take-off aircraft network that will be demonstrated for the first time by Uber in 2020.
Dubai will be the first location for the launch of a new small autonomous electric helicopter scheduled for operation later this year.
There is "a real passion, a real interest" in this type of transportation in some crowded cities, said Jean Brice Dumont, chief engineering officer of Airbus Helicopters.
At the automotive exhibition in Geneva, the Airbus company presented its flying car prototype called "Pop Up" which was developed in collaboration with Volkswagen subsidiaries.
On the other hand, Patrick Cipriani, director of security directorate of the French civil aviation questioned the safety of using flying car units.
"Will we be prepared to receive light-level aircraft, which are 100 times less secure?" He said.