Watch – Toyota-backed flying car passes first flying test - Hoping to export 60km/h for 30 min versions

Japanese startup SkyDrive has released a video showing the first successful piloted test flight of its SD-03 flying car. The SD-03 is punted as the world’s smallest electric VTOL (vehicle take-off and landing) vehicle.

For its next step, the company is planning to increase the maximum speed of the vehicle up to 60 km/h, with a flight duration of 30 minutes. This would make it capable of a range of 30km between charges, which the company believes would be sufficient to justify exporting it to other countries.

Using similar technology to drones for stabilisation it may be easy enough for anyone to "drive".

See Watch – Toyota-backed flying car passes first flying test

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