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A Flying Car Concept From Volkswagen

The “future” may be here soon, finally!

No matter how much we advance in technology, lengthening lifespans, creating artificial organs, and plastering touchscreens of all sizes on absolutely everything, it won’t feel quite like the “future” until we can fly to work. That most basic element in depictions of the future, the flying car, has been absent from reality, somehow leaving us unconvinced of how far we’ve come.

From Volkswagen, and a young gaming design student from Chengdu city, we get a flying car concept that fits not only our own desires for futurism, but also the closest idea yet to something that will effectively introduce flight into our daily routines.

The People’s Car, as it has been dubbed, is a pod not unlike George Jetson’s famed bubble vehicle. It’s essentially a two-seat pod shaped something like a giant truck wheel. As far as making a city full of these things float, let alone zip around, it would have to utilize mag-lev or use a method of anti-gravity that has not quite been perfected. In short, it will be a matter of time before these things become an everyday sight, but let’s be glad that we’re one step closer to the real future.

[via: Design Buzz]

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