The Future is in The Air

The waves of cars that flood the roads today have been seen to go crazy. The passengers fight their way to their destination among the vehicles that look like tiny beetles in the day light and transform into fireflies at night. We wonder amidst this crowd of bug like machines if only they could actually fly above this mess and save our time wasted trying to get through.

This is obviously not the first time to come across the idea of a flying vehicle. The attempts, no matter how feeble, have been made ever since the Wright Brothers’ experiment in 1903. From aircrafts to horse carts, man has tried every possible way to carve a design and bring the idea into reality. The work has since been carried out by numerous practitioners and consists of 80 patents so far (Kevin Bonsor "How Flying Cars Will Work" 1 December 2000).

There exist, a large number of engineers who have been keeping up with the spirit of the notion, trying to make it work all these years. The following decades have seen the creation of technologically advanced and smoother running automobiles, however, there is not yet a well-established market for flying cars. Despite the lack of business in these machines, the world has seen many of these vehicles and to name a few of them we present the models designed and tested so far.

Dating back to the 1990s, a Solvakian organization named AeroMobil has been evolving the 4-seater model of its flying car that is expected to enable a vertical takeoff as well as an equally smoother run on the road. The independent takeoff and landing is supported by an electric mechanism which moreover, helps in the excellence of flight functions.

Another such model is the PAL-V ‘liberty’ which is described as “the car that flies and the plane that drives” (Production model of the PAL-V liberty flying car takes off, 2018). This automobile conveniently fits into the size of a regular one which makes it easy to run onn the road just like a normal car.
Last, but not the least, is the UK's first ever flying taxi- the vertical aerospace "eVTOL". It is a drone shaped automobile that has a distinctive characteristic of reducing  carbon production in the air and can be said to have an eco-friendly mechanism.
With this and a lot more sprouting designs, the future can see lesser fireflies and beetles on the roads, soaring high in the air instead. It is, however not yet so certain as to when that time may actually come.