Boeing Flying car

This means that the cars do not need a strip of land or much room to get into the air. Prizes were presented just one months after Uber's flying cab schedules with demonstrations scheduled to start in Los Angeles in 2020. Although challenging and rather unfeasible due to regulation restrictions, Uber's intentions are pushing the whole airline industry into aircraft design.

These are the top 10 creations from around the globe, among them Latvia, the Netherlands, Japan, Great Britain and the USA. Some of the creations are built on motorbike aesthetics, others are all-electric and range in the number of blade assemblies used to get the car up and running with some five or even 10 blade creations.

The next part of the contest is about to begin: translating these concepts into functioning aircraft. It is still open for new entries, even if a team has not submitted or won a car at all. By 2019, the contest will have distributed around $2 million in prizes. Boeing announces that the main awardee will try out the best aircraft in the autumn of 2019.

Uber, Boeing and Airbus are cooperating with Japan to use flying automobiles within a ten-year period.

It is not a global market leading producer of automobiles or electrical equipment, but it is about taking automobiles to heaven. Today, Japan unveiled that it is uniting 21 corporations and organisations, among them major players such as Uber, Boeing, Airbus, Cartivator and Japan Airlines, to take aircraft to heaven within 10 years.

Challenges: The goverment said it would deal with one of the most important things that hold flying automobiles back: regulations. "Japan's federal authorities will give adequate assistance to implement the flying car approach, such as the establishment of reasonable rules," the minister said. When Japan is able to quickly set up a judicial system in which flying automobiles can operate, it could get a jump-start from a country like the US, whose Federal Aviation Association is known to be sluggish in its progress with respect to pronge regulations.

Airborne automobiles are definitely not yet prepared for the next generation, but there has been significant improvement lately. The flying cab starter Kitty Hawk, owner of Larry Page, has tested his large New Zealand aerial cab and began demonstrating his flyer early this year. About plans to use flying cabs in just five years, among them the opening of a Paris hubs until 2023.