Flying cars finally exist… sort of

[Mike Wehner]

• Toyota-backed flying car startup SkyDrive Inc. has produced a vehicle capable of flight.
• The SkyDrive SD-03 took off for a brief test flight at a testing facility in Japan.
• The vehicle could be available by 2023.

Back in the 1940s and 1950s, everyone assumed that by the year 2000 we'd all be flying around in our own personal aircraft. There were a lot of big dreamers back then, and with the rapid advance of technology, it seemed a given that we'd have mastered the art of the "flying car" within a few decades' time. Well, that didn't happen. In fact, we're really not even close to having flying cars yet, and we're well past the year 2000 deadline.

That's not to say there hasn't been progress in the area of flying cars, of course, and in a new video from the SkyDrive Project — a flying car project backed by Toyota — shows that we might still get the flying cars of our dreams... someday.

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