Cars can fly like airplanes

In the future, cars with flight functions such as the M400 Skycar can provide the perfect solution for avoiding traffic jams.

Model of the flying car Skycar. Photo: Daily Mail.

The M400 Skycar designed by Moller International, based in California, USA, can fly at 576 km / h and the maximum distance it can reach after a fuel spike is 1,200 km. Thus, the car only takes 35 minutes to fly from London to Paris.

Moller International claims that a four-seater is designed so that everyone with a driver's license can control it. In flight mode, the driver adjusts speed and direction.

Skycar will run on alcohol and its fuel consumption is lower than vehicles like Land Rover and Porsche. Moller International expects the prototype model to come out in 2012 and they will apply for a car license a few years later. The company believes the Skycar will be relatively cheap, at $ 500,000, because of the use of internal combustion engines rather than jet engines.

However, you can not sit in Skycar and take off from your home. Instead, the user must drive to an airport to take off and land. Vehicles only take off at 56 km / h.

The design team said that in the future a computer-controlled traffic control network could help all of the cars move in the air at the same speed and the distance between vehicles was maintained at a steady pace. regulations. Engineers are working on ways Skycar can fly at a height of about 10 km.