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Toyota joins flying car project

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May 30, 2017 1:00 AM

Rasheed Bisiriyu Toyota Motor Corporation has announced that it will finance a flying car project that is expected to take off by 2018 but adds that the sky drive car will be unveiled this year. A flying car is a type of personal air vehicle that provides door-to-door transportation by both road and air, according to wikipedia.org. Before now, the biggest story in the auto industry was the production of autonomous or self-driving vehicle. But the project has been enmeshed in controversy even before it could properly get off the ground. Until the latest development, there had also been talks about flying cars, which experts viewed as future rides, with prototypes exhibited by sponsors but none had reached the production stage. According to multiple online sources, including independent.co.uk, Toyota plans to give engineers £274,000 to develop the jet-propelled vehicle that will travel up to 10 metres from the ground. It says some of Toyota’s young employees have been voluntarily working on the project led by a start-up group called ‘Cartivator’. The report recalled that the project began in 2012 and the project members had hitherto donated free time to the goal of developing a ‘flying car’ or drone capable of carrying a person (the ‘Sky drive’ prototype has three wheels and four rotors). A news agency, Nikkei, says Toyota has agreed, in principle, to provide some 40 million yen to Cartivator, which has so far relied on online crowd-funding and other means for financing. It adds that the group plans to develop a prototype for a manned test flight by the end of 2018 and hopes to commercialise the flying car in 2020, when Tokyo hosts the Olympics. Drone technology, it says, is being used to power the three-wheeled prototypes, which measure just nine-and-a-half feet by four feet, with projected top speed of 62mph. Another report by Autoblog.com also confirms that so far crowd-funding has paid for the development of the Sky drive car, which uses drone technology and has t  

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