These compounds are released at all times and so a move toĮlectric vehicles which don’t produce them, whether that is land-based electric
tiny solid particles that become suspended in the air (soot). sulfur dioxide which causes respiratory problems and. other hydrocarbons such as benzene, which is known to cause cancer. carbon monoxide (an odorless, colorless but toxic gas). Includes substances that are directly harmful to the health of humans such as The majority of these land-based vehicles burn fossil fuels,Įven when stationary, producing several harmful substances in the process. Roads that were built a long time ago simply can’tĬope with the huge number of cars, trucks and other vehicles that compete for One of the biggest problems in most modern cities is trafficĬaused by road vehicles. But what are the main potential advantages and disadvantages of this new technology? These VTOLs look more like small, light helicopters rather than planes and as technology rapidly advances, companies such as Uber have set the ambitious goal of 2023 for when it’s services will first become commercially available.įor the rest of the article when I talk about flying cars I mean VTOLs. Technology today are creating vertical take-off and landing vehicles (VTOLs).Īnd the good news for the environment is that they are mostly electric. Then, emphasis has since changed and most of the big companies working on the The Transition looks and acts like a small plane, but since The Transition was the world’s first roadable aircraft, meaning it could take off and land on a normal road without the need for an airport runway.Īt this stage the flying car was fuelled in the same way as most regular cars, with petroleum-based fuel. The dream only started to really gain momentum in 2011 when a company called Terrafugia released ‘The Transition’. Subsequent decades, but nobody managed to produce anything that got past the Various other people attempted to make a breakthrough over the That being during the great depression and people had more pressing issues thanįlying cars. Was shortly followed by the Ford ‘Stout Skycar’ in the early 1930s, but due to The Fliver’s dream wasĬut short however when it crashed on a test flight and killed the pilot. Henry Ford attempted to do this in 1926 with the ‘Ford Fliver’ which wasīasically a small plane but intended for the average man. 
In fact, people have been building flying cars from the start of the century.
Companies such as NASA, Boeing and Uber are testing out the latest prototypes to try and bring the first flying cars to our city skies in the next few years.īut apart from looking cool, what potential benefits could flying cars bring for the environment? And will those potential benefits outweigh the disadvantages?įlying cars have been a dream of many people for a long time. However, here we are in 2019 and I look out the window of my city office and still I don’t see any signs of flying cars in the sky.įinally, this might be about to change. It was thought by many that by this point in time we would be zipping around the cities in the air instead of stuck in traffic on the ground. Flying cars have been a fantasy of science fiction for decades.
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