In 1940, Henry Ford said: “Mark my words: a combination airplane and motorcar is coming. You may smile, but it will come.” Nearly 80 years later, no flying car has yet reached production stage.
That may be about to change. Slovakian firm AeroMobil, currently working on its fourth prototype flying car, plans to start taking orders for its vehicles as soon as next year.
DM: In all honesty, we haven’t defined absolutely what the price is. It’s not going to be cheap – it has an awful lot of technologies that are very early on in their maturation process, and because of that the price associated with some of the technology is reasonably high.