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Three-Dimensional Travel
Cars are boring, primitive even. It’s 2018 and most of vehicles today are still using an Internal combustion engine! In other words, in order to propel our cars, we are still burning fuel to produce heat energy and turning it into mechanical energy, this involves many parts, such as pistons, valves and crankshafts, that must move violently and are bound to break down. The internal combustion engine is so sadly primitive, the basic engine dates back to 1794! Patented by Robert Street in England. But what about Tesla? Tesla is innovating, bringing electric vehicles to society! I have news for you, Tesla is boring too! No matter the innovations, self-driving, all electric, cars themselves are a primitive mode of transportation that modern society has outgrown. Millions of vehicles around the world all sharing the same Streets, the same highways, the same bridges. And these streets and highways are getting increasingly crowded. According to the United Nations, the world’s urban population has grown rapidly from 746 million in 1950 to 3.9 billion in 2014. And by 2045, the world’s URBAN population, not total, URBAN population is expected to surpass 6 billion people! We need a change, because we are stuck on a 2-dimensional plane. In the future, every day travel will need to go 3 dimensional, by way of flying cars, namely air taxis and personal air transportation vehicles. We have been waiting for flying cars to become a reality for over a hundred years! The first attempt to build a flying car resulted in the Curtiss Autoplane, invented by Glenn Curtiss in 1917. The Autoplane had a 100 hp engine that drove the propeller. It had removable wings and a fully enclosed aluminum body. The autoplane was able to get off the ground and do a few short hops but development stopped when the US entered WWI. Ford experimented with Ford Flivver in the late 1920’s. The Flivver was an airplane, not flying car but in the spirit of the Model T, the Flivver was designed to be massed produced as an everyman’s aircraft but production was halted after a fatal crash. Despite of the Flivver failure, Henry Ford remained convinced that flying cars will be a reality someday. Yet here we are in 2018, stuck in traffic, stuck at traffic lights, waiting for our turn to continue on our 2-dimensional path. But it looks like Ford’s prediction of flying cars will FINALY come true in the near future. Many companies from giant aircraft manufacturers to small startup companies are working on radical ways to take urban transportation into the 3rd dimension. Uber is boldly working towards piloting an air taxi service in Los Angeles and Dallas Texas by 2020. Uber’s taxi service will use Vertical-TakeOff-and-Landing or VTOLs, which are aircraft that takes off and lands like a helicopter but flies horizontally like an airplane. They plan to Uber repurpose tops of parking garages, existing helipads, and even unused land surrounding highway interchanges to create an extensive network of “Vertiports” or “Skyports” which are Hubs where the VTOLs will travel between. Uber believes that over time, as Elevate expands, the production of VTOL vehicles will grow and drive prices for the aircrafts down and ultimately, using a VTOL transportation service will be less expensive than owning a car. One of Uber’s partners will be Bell Helicopters based out of Texas. Bell’s displayed the cabin of their air taxi at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show but not the flying mechanism which Bell is keeping secret. The cabin will have leather seats with futuristic blue lights along with touch screen tablets and will be able to carry 4 people. The air taxi will be operated by a pilot until autonomous technology is perfected. Although Uber wants to start testing the air taxi service by 2020, it will probably be a later according to Bell which hopes to start testing in the early 2020s. Next is Airbus who created the all-electric powered VTOL called Vahana. The Vahana project started in 2016 and is designed to carry one passenger or cargo and aims to be the first certified passenger aircraft without a pilot. Sources: http://ift.tt/2EDvt4U http://ift.tt/28LIvOw http://ift.tt/2lEzMGY
via YouTube https://youtu.be/cEYU8aojy3I
Cars are boring, primitive even. It’s 2018 and most of vehicles today are still using an Internal combustion engine! In other words, in order to propel our cars, we are still burning fuel to produce heat energy and turning it into mechanical energy, this involves many parts, such as pistons, valves and crankshafts, that must move violently and are bound to break down. The internal combustion engine is so sadly primitive, the basic engine dates back to 1794! Patented by Robert Street in England. But what about Tesla? Tesla is innovating, bringing electric vehicles to society! I have news for you, Tesla is boring too! No matter the innovations, self-driving, all electric, cars themselves are a primitive mode of transportation that modern society has outgrown. Millions of vehicles around the world all sharing the same Streets, the same highways, the same bridges. And these streets and highways are getting increasingly crowded. According to the United Nations, the world’s urban population has grown rapidly from 746 million in 1950 to 3.9 billion in 2014. And by 2045, the world’s URBAN population, not total, URBAN population is expected to surpass 6 billion people! We need a change, because we are stuck on a 2-dimensional plane. In the future, every day travel will need to go 3 dimensional, by way of flying cars, namely air taxis and personal air transportation vehicles. We have been waiting for flying cars to become a reality for over a hundred years! The first attempt to build a flying car resulted in the Curtiss Autoplane, invented by Glenn Curtiss in 1917. The Autoplane had a 100 hp engine that drove the propeller. It had removable wings and a fully enclosed aluminum body. The autoplane was able to get off the ground and do a few short hops but development stopped when the US entered WWI. Ford experimented with Ford Flivver in the late 1920’s. The Flivver was an airplane, not flying car but in the spirit of the Model T, the Flivver was designed to be massed produced as an everyman’s aircraft but production was halted after a fatal crash. Despite of the Flivver failure, Henry Ford remained convinced that flying cars will be a reality someday. Yet here we are in 2018, stuck in traffic, stuck at traffic lights, waiting for our turn to continue on our 2-dimensional path. But it looks like Ford’s prediction of flying cars will FINALY come true in the near future. Many companies from giant aircraft manufacturers to small startup companies are working on radical ways to take urban transportation into the 3rd dimension. Uber is boldly working towards piloting an air taxi service in Los Angeles and Dallas Texas by 2020. Uber’s taxi service will use Vertical-TakeOff-and-Landing or VTOLs, which are aircraft that takes off and lands like a helicopter but flies horizontally like an airplane. They plan to Uber repurpose tops of parking garages, existing helipads, and even unused land surrounding highway interchanges to create an extensive network of “Vertiports” or “Skyports” which are Hubs where the VTOLs will travel between. Uber believes that over time, as Elevate expands, the production of VTOL vehicles will grow and drive prices for the aircrafts down and ultimately, using a VTOL transportation service will be less expensive than owning a car. One of Uber’s partners will be Bell Helicopters based out of Texas. Bell’s displayed the cabin of their air taxi at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show but not the flying mechanism which Bell is keeping secret. The cabin will have leather seats with futuristic blue lights along with touch screen tablets and will be able to carry 4 people. The air taxi will be operated by a pilot until autonomous technology is perfected. Although Uber wants to start testing the air taxi service by 2020, it will probably be a later according to Bell which hopes to start testing in the early 2020s. Next is Airbus who created the all-electric powered VTOL called Vahana. The Vahana project started in 2016 and is designed to carry one passenger or cargo and aims to be the first certified passenger aircraft without a pilot. Sources: http://ift.tt/2EDvt4U http://ift.tt/28LIvOw http://ift.tt/2lEzMGY
via YouTube https://youtu.be/cEYU8aojy3I
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