From utopia flying cars turned into reality. Today we can talk about 10 models of real cars capable of climbing the sky.
Overview
About the flights people dreamed long ago. Thanks to this, an airplane was created more than 100 years ago. Then, humanity met helicopters and aircraft. But about the hearts subcorded with their appearance and speed of flying cars from fantastic films, it was possible to dream.
More than a hundred years, many companies have worked on their creation. Finally, we managed to move the process from the dead point.
Flying Aeromobil.
Slovak company Aeromobil worked since 1990 over the creation of a flying car. Not one prototype was created, a lot of tests were carried out. Testing the car successfully passed in 2016. Watching the flight they told that the spectacle was impressive!
Finally spoke about his serial sale.
The flying car, according to the developers, works on gasoline, perfectly feels on the motorways. But, the main thing is the flying car can rise into the air. All that he needs for take-off - 200 meters of level road surface, for planting enough 50 m. It can land on any level plot if there is no tracks next.
What is known?
Filling
For the manufacture of the core used steel and carbon fiber - very light and durable modern material.
Flying car just stuffed with modern devices:
- autopilot;
- perfect navigation,
- system for night flights;
- rescue parachutes.
To turn from terrestrial transport to the plane, it will be enough for 20 seconds.
Cost
A little known about it. But it is clear that I will have to post money not small. According to rumors, it is at least 300 thousand euros. Indeed, quite a few. This money can be purchased your own double helicopter or 5 is a local comfortable plane.
Characteristics
A car capable of flying, named Aeromobil 3.0. His rotax 192 engine is characterized by a capacity of 100 "horses". Thanks to the power unit on the track, the maximum speed can reach a mark of 160 km / h, in the sky - 200. But, it is necessary to have 250 meters of smooth and free road to take off, 50 m can be limited to landing.
And also to technical parameters include:
- width, in cm - 2200;
- length, in cm - 600 meters;
- wingspan, cm - 8300;
- motor power - 100 hp;
- front drive. He pushes the front wheels and screw;
- consumption - 16 l / h;
- max flight range - 700 km;
- ground stroke - 875 km;
- running speed - 10 km / h.
Control
In order to be driving a fantastic flying car in some driver's rights not enough. It will be necessary to learn from flight courses (or contact a particular voice pilot) to get a document giving the right to air piloting.
Folding and wheels are made from superprocerary carbon. The weight of the transformer without fuel and the weight of the passenger is 450 kg. Flying Slovak Car Reminds the Gabarities Status Terrafugia Transition:
While a flying car is designed for 2 people, despite the dimensions, decent limousine. But, the plans of the company far-reaching, so "not far from the mountains" plan to please the 4-bed model.
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Video: Aeromobil 3 0 Official Video 1920 × 1080
Terrafugia Transition
A real car that can fly is a novelty of the current year. To see an incredible means of movement on the ground and air, we can thanks to developing technologies.
Overview
It is a Boston drone TF-x Quad Sedan.
The developer equipped it with two electric motors and the same amount of wings that two provisions can take: horizontal - when preparing to take off and vertical - when driving on the ground. Thanks to the possibility of wings fold, a unique car-aircraft is easily placed in the usual garage. And he also has 300-strong DVS.
Thanks to the added propellers and the tunnel fan in the tail, a flying car still, where to land and where to take off. It does not necessarily have a runway at all.
Speed
Its limit value reaches a mark of 320 km / h, and overcome the distance overcome the flying machine - 800 km.
Control
It is automatic. Therefore, the pilot is not obligatory. It is enough simply into the control system to enter the appropriate point so that the transport began moving in a given direction.
In a non-standard situation, the driver of a flying miracle has the opportunity to make a forced landing or stop.
Everyone who has a driver's license and the last training course of the pilot will be able to ride the flying machine and fly.
Cost
The price of such a miracle transport will appear by 2025, will reach 279 thousand euros. But, in the future, she will decline and maybe someday the flying car will become the same intensity as classic.
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Video: The Terrafugia TF-X
Safety
She is paid to maximum attention. The developer of a flying car claims to fly on aeromobile capable of overcome 1000 km in 3 hours, safer than to ride on the roads.
Work on the creation of flying cars and other companies, example, which is another auto and airplane hybrid.
Moller Skycar M400.
Overview
What is just not for sale on the Internet. Here is a flying car - the creation of Moller International, already put up for sale on eBay. True by the transmission price - 1 million dollars.
True, the buyer will not be able to climb it into the air. Until the prohibition imposed by the Federal Office of America's Civil Aviation.
Created a flying M400 Skycar Professor Paul Moller - University employee at Davis.
The American company Athena Technologies and China, who wants to place production facilities for the production of such flying vehicles to his project today. Therefore, the place of the developer appeared a chance to come true.
An investor was already found, ready to invest 80 million dollars. Thanks to successfully emerging circumstances, preparation for serial production of a car capable of flying is already begun.
Take off and landing with a flying car will be vertical, and this requires careful preparation. The transformer is calculated for 4 passengers.
The speed is maximum, which will develop a flying car is very tempting - 610 km / h. But, it is unlikely that everyone will be able to buy him, since the price is supposed to be half a million dollars.
Parameters
- number of places - 4;
- take off - vertical;
- fuel - gasoline;
- consumption per 100 km- 8.5 liters;
- speed in air - 610 (at an altitude of 6 km), 480 (8.8 km), 225 (at sea level);
- flight range - 1450 km;
- motor - 645 hp
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Video: M400X DemonStration Flight
PAL-V.
Overview
A flying car created by the Dutch is called Pal-V. His in the near future will be able to buy anyone who has the desired amount.
A flying machine with minimal risk for the user can "be filled" to swell right from the path near the house and without it - from the take-off strip of a small airfield. Of course, it is not provided for the takeoff of a flying car stuck in the road plug, as it is associated with danger. The driver with a license for air control, without which the owner of the wing does not become easy, will easily get, turn the ram, in any place through the air.
And, if necessary, after landing in need the place to get there, as on the usual car.
The novelty represents a mixture of autogyry with folding blades on the carrier screw, and the tricycle that is capable of tilting.
From rare analogs distinguishes this flying car rear-wheel drive and permission (quite legal) move on highways. All items needed for this it is available.
In the flight mode, all the power of the power plant is aimed at unwinding the flint screw.
It is driven by a double motor installation. Its power corresponds to 100 "horses" in "earthly conditions" and 200 in the air.
Fuel
Flying machine on fuel:
- AI-95-98;
- aircraft gasoline;
- mixtures of ethanol and gasoline in a 1: 9 ratio.
In the car IP content, the design accelerates easily up to 160 km / h with acceleration to hundreds of 9 seconds. The covered path is 1315 km, and the consumption per hundred - 7.6 liters.
Gabarits.
For road ride, the design is the following dimensions:
- length - 4 m;
- width - 2m;
- height - 1.7 m.
In flight mode:
- length - 6.1 m;
- width -2m;
- height - 3.2 m;
- the diameter of the screw is 10.75m.
By air, the Liberty car is able to fly up to 500 km. The digit varies depending on the load. But the tank will not be empty. There will be a reserve, which is enough to flush by 3.5 km up and accelerate to 180 km / h.
For take-off, a flying car requires 180 m of a flat coating and 30 m. To land. The average fuel consumption is 26 l / h.
Weight
Weighs empty (without passengers and fuel) Flying car 664 kg, designed for two and luggage weighing 20 kg. To this, add 100 liters of fuel. As a result, the maximum weight for takeoff reaches 910 kg.
Who is interested?
The flying car is calculated more on Europe and America, since the network of private airfields is well developed there. But it is planned that in the US will go for sale 90 first copies, to Europe - 10.
Price
In addition to the cost of the device, the amount for the introductory course and the workout designer. "Pure" price is 499 thousand euros for Europeans plus tax, for Americans - 599 thousand euros.
Later promised producer cheaper version. The cost of which lies within 299-300 thousand euros.
Already today you can make pre-orders to make deposits in the amount 10-25 thousand dollars. Deliveries are promised by the end of the year.
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Video: Pal-V Flying Car, World's First Flying Car Production Model
Parajet Skycar.
Overview
The idea of \u200b\u200bcreating a flying car is not Nova. So that he appears in real life had to work hard. And the flying car is already flying from London to African Tumbuct. This is Parajet Skycar. Which for the transformation from the car to the plane you need 3 minutes.
Two large companies - Parajet International Ltd and Rage Motorsport Ltd entered into a deal, so it is quite possible that everyone will soon be able to purchase such a transformer.
The truth will cost it a lot. The second company itself will make the design, and the first details will take place for flights.
Chassis
The manufacturer gave a flying car a completely new chassis, which reduced an aircraft mass by 80 kilograms.
Also, cars provided:
- rear parachute;
- increased foot space;
- three-cylinder motor Yamaha firm with gasoline injection.
The power of the aerobial is higher. Than in the models occupying the upper positions in the top 11 - 140 horsepower.
Speed
Overclocking until hundreds in ground conditions requires only 4.5 minutes. The speed is limited to a mark of 180 km / h. The passing path is 400 km.
In the air, the car, to create which we used innovative technologies, flies at a speed of 110 km / h (in the future promise 160), flying to 300 km. Its takeoff reaches 60 km / h, and the cruising height is 900 meters (maximum - 4500 m).
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Video: The Parajet Skycar's First Flight
MAVERICK SPORT.
A flying machine, which occupies 6th place in the top 11 from the company I-Tec, is a car and a paraglider at the same time. She does not need wings and antigravitational technologies.
The company decided to use parachutes for flights. Moreover, to do it precisely for staying in the air, and not to use them, as in supere-speed cars to help the brake system.
Difference
The main one is that, in contrast to the analogs (even if there are already at the stage of serial production), this aerobil is already sold.
Design
Appearance, he resembles a golf car, so it looks unacceptable. If you do not take into account the screw and parachute, then this is usual, the truth is lightweight, the car. But he flies !!!
Principle of flight
He was borrowed from the Paraglider of Motor. The flying car was equipped with a large ferry engine and a parachute "wing". Obtaining it during the movement, the design, quickly by typing the speed, sweeps up, moving along it due to the rush ensures the screw that is available in the rear.
Safety
To protect themselves to protect themselves from injuries, the aeroobial driver takes off and sits only on the unloaded tracks.
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Video: Flying Car - Maverick 2
Kitty Hawk.
The fifth place in the top 11 took a fully electric design with a vertical take-off and landing - the electric car Kitty Hawk.
What is known about him?
According to developers, you will need only a few minutes to fly to this car. To do this, the flying car has joysticks similar to those used in computer games.
Design
Externally, the prototype is similar to a huge dragon, under the grid of which are 8 rotors raising it into the sky.
It is registered as a ultralight vehicle, so make a license for flights, users do not need. Promise Aeromobile to submit this year.
Cost
The exact figures on how much will need to pay for aerobil, no, but those who pay a membership fee for three years in size in 100 dollars, promised priority in line and a discount of $ 2000.
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Video: Introducing the Kitty Hawk Flyer
Airbus.
The dream of people about overcoming large distances, which will not be hampered by the boring traffic jams, decided to implement in the German corporation Airobus.
In Geneva, the developers were represented by an aircraft, which makes it possible to slide over the air above the shoghole of the highway - Flying Airbus.
The hybrid is equipped with two modules - wheels for ground movement and propellers for air flights.
Operating principle
The passenger only needs to sit in the car, calculated for two, and specify the destination. Drone will independently pave the route to optimally get to the specified place. He will decide how it is easier to do - by air or road.
On ordinary roads, he must appear in five years.
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Video: popup.
Surefly.
At the third step, the top-11 flying car from carbon fiber is an okokhodter, designed for 2 passengers.
Description
He has 4 wings and 8 screws, which are fixed from the bottom of the wings. The paired screws rotate in the opposite direction, which is positively reflected in the stability of the model.
The engine device is equipped with gas capable of generating energy. Necessary to actuate 8 electric motors.
In addition, there are two lithium batteries that are capable of a flying vehicle, in the event of a motor failure, take on the function of spinning screws. For the final version will be provided parachute.
Characteristics
- The highest flight speed is 113 km / h;
- With a fully charged battery, the passable path is 112 km;
- Payload permissible - 180 kg, i.e. This is the weight of the pilot, passenger and cargo.
Price
In Workhorse plans for later models, use the offline control, and while this is a joystick controller. The serial release of those who want to be ready for 2020. In the meantime, they have time to assemble the required amount - 200 thousand dollars. Such will be the price of the first samples.
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Video: Surefly Personal Octocopter Revealed by The Workhorse Group
Aeromobil.
Overview
This futuristic flying car Slovak Company was presented in Vienna 4 years ago. After the presentation, the company received an investment, the amount of which amounted to 3 million euros and plunged with his head to work.
The next generation transformer was presented in Monaco the exhibition (April 20). Developers make a "hundred changes", improving its design and characteristics.
Prove the Slovaks do not need anything, as their brainchild goes well and flies.
Technical indicators
- The speed developed on the roads and air is 160 and 200 km / h, respectively;
- Mileage on earth and in the sky - 875 and 700 km;
- In the length of the car reaches almost six meters;
- Width in car and aircraft mode - 2.2 m and almost 9;
- Tank volume - 90 liters;
- Fuel - gasoline;
- Acceleration to 100 km - 10 seconds;
- Attachment at 130 km / h.
Cost
Pre-orders will begin to accept this year. And the announced price will be from 1200,000 euros to 1500,000 euros.
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Video: Aeromobil 3.0 - Official Video
Opposite "Four", which is equipped with a hybrid, supplies the energy of 2 electric motors.
His drive from its front, power in the automotive mode - 110 hp And 300 - in aviation.
Salon
Two adults are placed in it. Run weight (maximum) - up to 960 kg.
For the transition of the machine to the take-off mode for 3 minutes.
Safety
For her (on earth), belts and airbags are responsible. In the air, this issue is solved due to integrated parachutes with automatic disclosure.
The Lilium Jet.
Description
This model is the top 11 leader. Flying apparatus working on electricity. It is equipped with 36 electric motors, thanks to which it is possible to develop the transcendent speed of 300 km / h. It is clear that to transport a person to the right place he will not deliver problems.
Its maximum load is limited to 200 kg, which in weight corresponds to the mass of two, large people or three with medium weight.
He does not need the take-off strip, since the landing and takeoff is carried out vertically.
Below is a diagram that displays the cost of driving on Lilium Jet.
Perspective
The developers received investments from the European Space Agency, the size of which amounted to 10 million euros. Thanks to them, the test continues and the release of this car will approach, which will save from standing in traffic jams.
Price
The car has already made the first flight. The cost of it at the expense of the minimum of requirements may be close to the classic car. The speed will be more than five times - 300 km / h. In terms of noise, it exceeds even the usual motorcycle. It consumes energy in comparison with ordinary LA 90% less.
In the future, it is planned to increase the capacity.
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Video: Lilium Jet Flying Electrocar Made the first trial field
Dreams Come True. The day came when cars are willing to break away from the ground and climb into the sky. Dutch designers showed the first serial model of the flying machine. What is it represents, and what opportunities gives drivers - in this review.
People have long dreamed of crushing the car and the plane. The first attempts are dating back 1917. It was then that American designer Glenn Kurtis tried to create a plane that could not only fly, but also comfortably ride on the roads.
We made such attempts and engineers of the Soviet Union, who wanted to make a flying tank. But all these attempts suffered fiasco. Over the past decades, technology has stepped far ahead, and perhaps it is now the time has come when cars will finally be able to open their wings.
The ambitious dream embodied in a new flying car, which was called Liberty. Developed his notorious company Dutch company PAL-V. Surely many have already ever heard about it, because it was the designers of this company that the goal was to create a flying car a few years ago.
After a 10-year work on achieving your goal, Pal-V shows the car, which, according to the developers, is not at all the "next promising sample", and the most real serial model. The car from the first batch will cost 600 thousand dollars and 25 more for the right to get it among the first.
Together with the car itself, the company promises 10 lessons in its management, and anywhere in the world! Another option to get a car is to pay only 10 thousand dollars, but wait for the second series. And yes, you will have to pay all the same 600 thousand for the car itself.
As for the technical characteristics, Liberty is glorified here by a 100-strong engine that allows him to accelerate him on Earth up to 160 km / h. Up to 100 km / h car accelerates in 9 seconds. Some experts are worried about the aerodynamics of the car, expressing the view that at speeds above hundreds, the car will start shaking. For flights Liberty uses another, 200-strong engine. The manufacturer claims that the car can fly 400-500 km.
However, it is not necessary to hope that Liberty can be filled into the sky at any time when it is necessary for the driver. Changing the mode takes 5-10 minutes. In addition, it is impossible to fly anywhere. To do this, you need a good-quality strip with a length of at least 180 meters for only the separation from the Earth.
It is worth considering that most of the legislation will require Liberty to take off and sitting only in specially intended places. And of course, a flight license will be required to manage such a hybrid.
And recently the Russian concern "Kalashnikov" declassified. It is worth seeing.
Aeromobil promises to release the first flying car to the market. The double car was presented at the SXSW conference in Austin. Engineers declare that she can ride along the usual road, and then transform and take off. It requires a small runway and ordinary fuel. More about the functionality of the car we wrote.
First, Aeromobil will be released by limited edition, stated CEO Slovak Jurai Watsulik in an interview with CBC. It will cost "hundreds of thousands of US dollars."
Previously, the creators stated that they want to promote a car in developing countries, where there is no broad transport infrastructure, as well as money for its creation. This was explained by the fact that the Aeromobil can be filled at any refueling, and the lack of roads or their poor quality machine is not a hindrance. However, this model is aimed at rich buyers and aviation enthusiasts.
In addition to the flying machine, the company simultaneously wants to run similar to the Uber service for transportation. A client who wants to go to the city, let's say, 4-5 hours from home, can cause self-governing Aeromobil through the application. If there is free transport in the garage, he will go to the customer himself and will deliver where necessary. The advantages are obvious here - to fly faster than to go, the chance to get into the plug disappears, as well as talkative drivers.
The reality of such a service so far seems futuristic, but Watsulik is very confident in your team and project.
Even more futuristic time to perform this idea. In 2013, in the United States at a meeting of the Congress, a specialist from the University of Carnegie Melon said that people would have to manage cars from a dozen years: "Only somewhere in the 2020s, the car will become a completely autonomous system that does not require the involvement of a person."
Two years ago, the unmanned car loomed somewhere in the distant future, and Aeromobil, after two years, wants to give the world to the world, which also flies. By the way, in Moscow traffic jams it would not be avoided - the flight is prohibited in the capital.
Ideas Combine the aircraft and the car appeared before the Second World War. It was possible to do this in 1946 Robert Fulton. His invention Airphibian has become the first flying car in the world, which received a certificate of civil aviation management of the United States. Wings and sections of the tail of this aircraft were shot, and the propeller was applied to the fuselage. Having a six-cylinder engine with a capacity of 150 horsepower, the car could fly at a speed of 200 km / h and drive 80 km / h. The prototype was successful, but Fulton failed to bring it to mass production - failed to find money.
Hoverbike Aero-X
Two years later, we can please Aerofex With your calboy (flying motorcycle). In the spring of 2014, the company announced the yield of a commercial model for a price of about $ 85 thousand. It is able to float over the ground at the maximum speed of 72 km / h and at an altitude of almost 3.7 meters above the ground, allowing you to transport two people. Aero-X is able to work for an hour and fifteen minutes in full tank gasoline.
Among other interesting developments in the automotive area - the car concept Thorium.capable of riding 100 years of reconciliation as well
Last year, the Slovak company Aeromobil from Slovakia presented the third generation of his flying car called Currently, the model undergoes tests in real flight conditions.
The new machine is required only a few seconds to turn from the car into the aircraft and back. The length of the model is 6 meters, and the width is 2.24 meters in the form of a car and 8.32 meters with straightened wings.
Aeromobil 3.0 is made of composite materials, equipped with aviation side equipment, parachute input system and autopilot. Thanks to the changeable angle of inclination of the wings, the novelty can rise in the air in just "several hundred meters" overclocking along the runway.
Powerful suspension allows Aeromobil 3.0 accelerate and sit even on uneven surfaces.
The prototype of the flying car was tested on the road and in the air in the fall of 2014. The model is built on the steel frame and uses the body from the carbon fiber with folding wings. According to official information from the manufacturer, Aeromobil is equipped with a Rotax 912 engine, which provides models of the rise of 130 kilometers per hour, the speed in flight to more than 200 kilometers per hour and speed on the road to 160 kilometers per hour.
In the air, the model consumes 15 liters of fuel per hour and can fly up to 700 kilometers. Fuel consumption of the machine on the track is 8 liters per hundred kilometers, and the maximum stroke reserve is 900 kilometers.
Aeromobil is collected in two years to bring the serial version of its invention in two years, transfers "behind the wheel.rf". Aerobil will be released in 2017 both in two- and four-seater versions. The estimated cost of the model is several hundred thousand euros. Not only the driver's license will be required to control the machine, but also a pilot license.
The target audience of the novelties - supercar buyers who wish to start the "expensive hobby". The company also considers the ability to launch Aerotexi service.
For take-off and planting a flying car Aeromobil requires a run-off strip of airport or prepared herbal coating. Herbal stripes can be organized along the highway and near refueling stations.
In 1924, on the pages of the July issue of the Popular Science magazine, the famous American pilot Eddie Rikenbecker promised readers to expect "flying cars in the next 20 years." The flying machine of the rickenbecker was supposed to have retractable wings with a length of 3.8 m, suitable for swimming with housing and wheels, which would allow to move along the rapidly growing network of the United States roads.
"Flying" Citroen DS from the film "Fantômas wake up", 1965. Photo: IMDB.
Already 93 years old, but did not have learned cars. However, the concept of "aircraft with wheels" has determined our understanding of a flying car. This vision, which was cultivated with decades in pop culture and copied with engineers, restrained progress.
True, they will not drive around the roads - they will only fly and return the best from the technology of offline management, designing drone and joint travel programs.
We will be able to see them in heaven already very soon, perhaps, even in the next ten years. Flying cars in the form in which we used to understand them do not have the future, while there are no harsh borders for the development of passenger drones.
Simple part of the plan
If you were going to cut through the air in your personal flying car, then these dreams are hardly destined to come true. If each owner of such transport had to fly for 40 hours only to obtain a pilot license, it would not have had prospects. Passenger drones must be autonomous and do it easier than it seems.
Complicated part of the plan
Passenger drone developers have advanced further than the majority thinks. In June 2016, the Chinese company Ehang received from the authorities of Nevada permission to test the first passenger drone. According to Guardian, Drone is able to rise to a height of 3,500 meters and move at a speed of slightly more than 100 km / h, but no longer than 23 minutes. In Uber, it is calculated for ten years to launch the flight service on the requirement of Uber Elevate. His vertical takeoff and landing devices (VTOL) are largely similar to the drone of Lilium Aviation, which attracted $ 10 million during the investment series A. Very soon, other manufacturers such as DJI, 3D Robotics, Hubsan and even Amazon can join this technologies. .
If we can give passenger drones to development, our understanding of personal transport will change completelyThese companies will encounter two main problems:
Charging. At the moment, the main obstacle on the way to an increase in the duration of the flight is the capacity of the batteries. No one can guarantee a breakthrough in the field of battery creation, so everyone solve the problem on their own.
For passenger drones, the possibility of recharging in the air should be designed. The most prominent progress here boasts a lastermotive startup from Seattle, creating a wireless charging technology. In 2012, a company in conjunction with Lockheed Martin conducted an experiment to increase the duration of the Stalker Unmanned Aerial System. Their "Laser Radiation Transmission" system helped hold the drone in the air for 48 hours, directing the laser beam to the solar cells installed on the machine. Thus, the increase in flight time was 2400%.
Another prototype of the passenger drone. Photo: Joby Aviation
Of course, the idea of \u200b\u200bshooting a powerful laser in the sky causes some questions, but not if this infrastructure will minimize the number of accidents. Cities could highlight the space for the flights of drone and limit the use of lasers outside it. The recharging system in the air would significantly increase the duration and frequency of flights, since drones would be able to perform their work continuously.
Legislation.Unfortunately, regulatory authorities are not in a hurry to invent full-fledged rules for the drone industries. In the United States, the current version of the rules from August 2016 requires that Drone be in the field of view and under the permanent control of the operator. Because of this, the further development of the industry will slow down.
In some countries, all conditions have been created for the use of autonomous drones.
For example, in the Dutch city of Delft, the world's first network of completely autonomous drones with charging stations and lease points will be created. In New Zealand, Flirtey and Domino's will launch the first commercial delivery service, since the laws of the country do not interfere. On November 16, pizza delivery was performed for the first time using a drone.
In the US, the situation could be corrected, conducting drone tests for emergency services. Unmanned vehicles can be used for search operations and in situations where human life is standing on the horse. For example, in the event of a heart stop to save lives, assistance should be provided for six minutes. At the same time, the average time for avoiding ambulance in New York in 2015 amounted to 12 minutes. So why not take the risk for the sake of a person's salvation, which otherwise will die anyway?
Such tests in case of their positive result would help the administration and accelerate the adoption of the necessary laws.
In Russia
Despite the fact that we recently in our country cannot be said that work in this direction does not interfere. We asked experts, what legal restrictions still inhibit the development of passenger drones in Russia.
Trying to apply modern legislation to such passenger drones, as it is not adapted to such problems.
With development, the following problems will stand up to the legislator:
- Definition of the personality of the robot from the point of view of the legal system. Obviously, every robot will participate in relations with people. At a minimum on participation in air traffic, interaction with other robots and people. And here it is a curious question - whether it is necessary to recognize it with an equal man, create a fictitious personality, or qualify this device as a mechanical thing with specific functions.
- Definitely - unmanned cars, both on Earth and in the air, will not be able to go into mass use, until the uniform algorithms for the behavior of such cars in motion are not determined.
- Well, probably, the most obvious legislative restriction is the lack of rules of mass use of airspace and ensure the safety of people and cities from such flying machines. Modern rules of civil aviation are not suitable for regulating the movement of thousands of drones at the same time.
Sergey Voronin,
Passenger drones - technology is still new, in connection with which it still requires a lot of refinement. In such devices, most often there are military technology, which also imposes its imprint on their use. Among the possible restrictions in the application should also be noted that it is necessary to have a pilot license to control the aircraft, and the current. This also applies to the bulk devices.
In addition, it will be necessary to determine the technical requirements for planting and take-off places of such "taxi", the duration of being in the air, as well as to develop rules for the transportation of passengers, taking into account the designs of the drone themselves.
The legislative problem is today the greatest obstacle to the effective development of the direction of creating drone - both ground and air. Including passenger.
On March 30, 2016, an updated air code came into force. The new edition of the Air Code is found, for example, the term "external pilot". At the same time, in the new version of the 57th article of the Code, it is said that "the commander of the aircraft<...> It is a person who has a valid testimony of the pilot (pilot, an external pilot), as well as the preparation and experience necessary for independent aircraft management of a particular type. " It is the external pilot and will have the rights of the aircraft commander. It turns out that drink and drone, and the passenger drone must be the external pilot with rights.
The main question for passenger drone - who is responsible for the accident With the participation of unmanned funds. In the case of flying drones, the question is still not even climbed to study. It is relevant everywhere, and in our country, among other things. Who should be responsible for an accident that happened with the participation of the drone, especially the passenger: the owner of the fund, or who has developed the technology of the company, or the producer of drones, manufacturing and sold it? Lawmakers are more or less consolidated to answer.
In the resolution document, adopted on the results of the work of the "Round Table" in the Commission on Information Systems of the DG Committee on Native Technology in March 2016, it is clearly written: "Save full responsibility for the management of the BPTS on the driver (operator). Adjust this position by an additional point in Art. 264 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation or an additional point for this article, which will unambiguously broadcast this change. " And this is the only one or tangible landmark in this topic. It is assumed that the action of Article 264 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation will also be distributed on the airless drone operator.
We also foresee that seriously cut in the rights Development of the branch of unmanned aircraft anti-terrorist law. The technological portrait of terrorism is seriously changing during the development of unmanned systems. A flying drone with a fixed bomb can be remotely sent to the crowd, and the passenger drone control can be intercepted from a third-party computer ... This perspective is still the main brake when working out the legislative framework.
Symbol of progress
Cinema, literature and television have already prepared us for the fact that ultimately the engineers will still create public air transport. Although many still consider it just an invention from science fiction, in fact this time can come very soon.
Let we not see those flying cars that Eddie Rikenbecker promised us, in reality we will get something better. Only Americans are lost due to traffic jams 6.9 billion hours annually. More importantly, unmanned drones in emergency services will help save thousands of lives. If we can give passenger drones to the development of development, our understanding of personal transport will change completely.
