Flying car race scheduled in Australian Outback a new Sport of the Future

[Mark Gregory]

Here is a video of the Airspeeder  

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8447623/Flying-car-race-scheduled-end-year-Australian-Outback-Mad-Max-filmed.html

 

Flying car race scheduled for end of the year in the Australian Outback at the site of the original Mad Max film production

• Airspeeder will host an exhibition race of flying cars in the Australian Outback
• The company hopes the event could become the F1 of the 21st century
• The first race will take place with remote-piloted vehicles outside the remote town of Coober Pedy, where the original Mad Max films were shot

 

A new tech startup has announced plans to hold a flying car race in Australia before the end of 2020, the first of what it hopes will be a series of events that could become the 21st century version of F1.

Organized by Airspeeder, a tech startup with offices in Adelaide and London, the race will feature two remotely piloted flying cars, racing through the outskirts of Coober Pedy, a small town in the Australian Outback used as the setting for the original Mad Max films.

The first race is planned as a public exhibition, with support from Australia's Civil Aviation Safety Authority, and Airspeeder hopes it will be the first of an international circuit of races that could expand to include piloted vehicles.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[zepher]

Looks neat but real unsafe.

Kinda like early auto racing.

[TheMoneyPit]

At my age I might try it if I had an opportunity, would definitely bring back that devil may care feeling from my more foolish years...

[keithb7]

Remote control flying racing initially to test the airwaves so to speak.  Potential to become manned planes they say.

[hidden_hunter]

19 hours ago, Mark Gregory said:

Coober Pedy

 

Probably not somewhere I'd be rushing to go in summer, that place gets to be over 110F routinely... 

 

 

[zepher]

3 hours ago, hidden_hunter said:

 

Probably not somewhere I'd be rushing to go in summer, that place gets to be over 110F routinely... 

 

 

 

That is a normal summer day in the US Southwest. 😁

But that much heat and the driver is going to be locked up in a little cockpit, hope those things have good AC.

[joe_padavano]

Isn't this called the Reno Air Races?

[TTR]

"Looks like a RC operated drone, flies like a RC operated drone, ...."

So, must be a "car" , right ???

🙄

Edited June 24, 2020 by TTR (see edit history)

[padgett]

Don't see many wheels, what is their definition of "car" ?

 

ps 102F on the patio door today but we always have lots of them humidities.

[wayne sheldon]

Think these will do about the same as the Segway?

Airplanes and helicopters are what airplanes and helicopters are. Cars/automobiles are what they are. While we may dream of life with the Jetson's, or "speeders" out of "Star Wars", flying cars for many millions of people will not be practical until they can make them stop in extremely short space, without hitting the ground or anything else. It will likely require some sort of gravitational/spacial interface drive system not anywhere on our horizon yet.

[Bill Stoneberg]

Some drivers have issues with 2 dimensional driving, can you imagine if they throw a 3rd dimension (height)in the mix.

[28 Chrysler]

17 hours ago, padgett said:

Don't see many wheels, what is their definition of "car" ?

 

ps 102F on the patio door today but we always have lots of them humidities.