FLYUNG CARS ARE OFF … AND RACING

Is it a car? Is it a plane? Well, it’s both – kind of. What you’re looking at could be described as an oversized drone, but its creators, Alauda Aeronautics, are calling it an electric flying racing car, or more specifically, an electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle (eVTOL).

After the first units of these ‘Airspeeder’ flying cars were revealed earlier this year, the first race between them was held recently in the deserts of South Australia, previewing a future electric flying car