Flying car startup backed by Google founder offers test flights

[rangerrebew]

Flying car startup backed by Google founder offers test flights
June 6, 2018


A flying car project backed by Google co-founder Larry Page was closer to take-off on Wednesday, with a model for test flights by aspiring buyers.

Kitty Hawk, funded by Page, unveiled a "Flyer" model it described as "an exciting first step to sharing the freedom of flight."

The company was created last year in Google's home town of Mountain View, California, and has been testing a prototype in New Zealand.


Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-06-car-startup-google-founder-flights.html#jCp

[rangerrebew]

Most people can't maneuver well on the ground so it's hard to imagine the skies filled with bad pilots.

[thackney]

Kitty Hawk chief executive Sebastian Thrun, who founded the Google X lab devoted to "moonshots" such as self-driving cars and internet-synched eyewear, was quoted by CNN as saying piloting Flyer was as easy playing the video game "Minecraft."

Doesn't the typical user die within minutes of first playing these games?