The Chief Executive Officer of Lacuna Technologies, Hugh Martin, has said that flying cars could be commercially available by year 2024. He however disclosed that managing the new form of air traffic will be a big concern to the world’s cities.
Many cities across the world are getting increasingly concerned about how to manage traffic for flying cars in the future and it’s going to take a long time to get this figured out, disclosed Martin in an interview monitored on CNBC news.
Concerns such as where the vehicles will be allowed to take off, land or travel, whether they can fly at any time or only during allocated time, and how far apart the cars must be from one another, are some of the issues that might stall its adoption.
When one considers the addition of flying cars, drones and air taxis to air transportation, it becomes obvious that air travel is about to experience a revolution as instead of having one airport per major city, cities would now have thousands of airport scattered around.
A number of auto companies have been developing aerial vehicles but taking the effort to a commercially – affordable level is still an uphill task.
Martin expressed further that he believes some people will be able to afford flying cars but most will likely still travel on the road in electric vehicles or self – driving cars adding that vehicles that don’t have to lift off the ground can be safer and are able to lift more people. Where the flying cars would likely have an advantage is the carrying of freight and packages, he remarked.
