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多家企业正在积极开发飞行汽车
发表时间：2019-01-31 18:54:41 作者：飞行汽车 点击：
它们可能不是科幻小说中承诺的飞行汽车，但它们是距离现实最近的，并且可能会快就是实现。在继续之前，我们先定义一些术语。1924年，《大众科学》杂志(Popular Science)在报道《未来汽车旅行》时，将这种理论上的交通工具(承诺在短短20年内就能投入使用！)称为“飞行汽车”。它们一半是汽车，一半是飞机，能够在城镇中穿行，然后在开阔的道路上展开翅膀，飞向空中。
1917年，美国航空业的重要人物格伦·柯蒂斯(Glenn Curtiss)建造了第一条柯蒂斯自动驾驶飞机跑道。这是一辆四轮汽车，看起来像福特T型车，带有机翼和螺旋桨。在那之后的几十年里，雄心勃勃的商人们做了一些尝试来改进柯蒂斯的设计。在20世纪40年代中期，飞机公司Convair推出了两款真正会飞的汽车。这些车辆与雪佛兰类似，飞机用螺栓固定在车顶上。 这种设计美学一直延续到20世纪70年代，AVE Mizar是Cessna Skymaster和福特平托的字面混搭。
由于第一代飞行汽车未能成功起飞，一些发明家把目光从飞行汽车转向可驾驶的飞机上。上世纪50年代初开发的布莱恩自动驾驶飞机(Bryan Autoplane)的机翼是可折叠的，而不是可拆卸的，它的起落架在汽车模式下充当轮胎。大多数飞行汽车现在更关注飞行而不是汽车，像直升机一样的垂直起降成为最主要的设计。那么我们怎么称呼这些交通工具呢？没有人知道垂直起降是什么意思，不同飞行汽车设计者建议不同的标签。空客称其Vahana项目的产品为“个人飞行器”。由丰田汽车支持的Cartivator开发的SkyDrive，更像是一款载客无人机。来自谷歌首席执行官Larry Page的公司Kitty Hawk的宣传片，从水中起飞，使它更像一艘飞艇。百合喷射看起来像一个会飞的鸡蛋。从马萨诸塞州的Terrafugia到AeroMobil 4.0，都有充分的理由接受“飞行汽车”这个词——它们的本意是沿着公路行驶，然后飞向天空。
AeroMobil负责企业发展的副总裁Jonathan Carrier表示：“这就像一辆拥有超能力的超级跑车。”该公司飞行汽车的最新版本看起来更像是几十年前的混搭。Carrier说，设计的选择相当于该公司押注什么将首先成功。“我们正在积极开发垂直起降机。然而，我们相信将产品推向市场的踏脚石方法会让我们盈利，”Carrier说。因为AeroMobil 4.0将依赖现有的跑道，并提供一种人们熟悉的飞行方式——水平起飞——该公司认为消费者将更快适应。
优步正押注于垂直起降飞机。2017年，这家拼车公司宣布推出Uber Air，这是一项空中出租车服务，将在短短4年内推出。该公司表示，到2023年，它将“在郊区、城市之间，最终在城市内部，实现共享、多式联运”。达拉斯、洛杉矶和一个尚未确定的国际市场被选为试行地点。该公司制作了一段想象Uber Air未来的精彩视频，视频显示一名女性在上班回家的路上，搭乘该公司称之为“垂直起降飞机”的垂直起降设备下班回家。“他们一家三口住在郊区。她回家正好赶上吃晚饭。”
优步所设想的世界是这样的：日常通勤不再是购房者的考虑因素。城市和郊区被重新规划。通勤者愿意居住的城市周围的合理半径将会扩大，因此从帕洛阿尔托到加州蒙特雷之间的通勤将从90分钟缩短至15分钟。Lineberger说：“如果人们能够乘坐这种交通工具，他们可以选择住在更远的地方。”当优步视频中的女性搭乘垂直起降飞机时，她拿出笔记本进行工作。“郊区和城市地区的生活质量将会提高，”Lineberger 谈到我们未来的飞车时说。因为人们不用开车，他们将有更多的时间用于“工作和休闲”。
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AeroMobil is currently accepting an order for AeroMobil 4.0, which is expected to be delivered by 2020. Ubuntu said its air taxi service would be launched in 2023. Dubai is desperate for an air taxi to go into operation, while Japan's Artivator hopes its SkyDrive will help ignite the torch for the Tokyo Olympics in 2020.
They may not be the flying cars promised in science fiction, but they are the closest to reality and may soon be realized. Before proceeding, let's define some terms. In 1924, when Popular Science reported on Future Car Travel, it promised to put this theoretical vehicle into use in just 20 years. ) It's called a flying car. They are half automobiles and half airplanes, capable of traveling through cities and towns, then spreading their wings on open roads and flying into the air.
In 1917, Glenn Curtiss, an important figure in American aviation, built the first Curtiss autopilot runway. It's a four-wheeled car. It looks like a Ford T with wings and propellers. Over the decades since then, ambitious businessmen have made some attempts to improve Curtis's design. In the mid-1940s, Convair, an aircraft company, introduced two truly flying cars. These vehicles are similar to Chevrolet, where aircraft are bolted to the roof. This design aesthetics continued until the 1970s, when AVE Mizar was a literal mix of Cessna Skymaster and Ford Pinto.
Because the first generation of flying cars failed to take off successfully, some inventors turned their eyes from flying cars to drivable aircraft. The wings of the Bryan Autoplane, developed in the early 1950s, are foldable, not removable, and its landing gear acts as a tire in automotive mode. Most flying cars now focus more on flying than on cars, with helicopter-like vertical takeoff and landing becoming the main design. So what do we call these vehicles? No one knows what vertical takeoff and landing means. Different flying car designers recommend different labels. Airbus calls its Vahana product "personal aircraft". SkyDrive, developed by Toyota's Cartivator, is more like a passenger UAV. Kitty Hawk, a promotional film from Google CEO Larry Page, took off from the water to make it more like an airship. The Lily jet looks like a flying egg. From Terrafugia, Massachusetts, to AeroMobil 4.0, there are good reasons to accept the word "flying car" - they are meant to drive along the highway and then fly to the sky.
"It's like a supercar with superpower," says Jonathan Carrier, vice president of corporate development at AeroMobile. The latest version of the company's flying car looks more like a mix-up decades ago. Carrier says the choice of design is equivalent to the company's bet on what will succeed first. "We are actively developing vertical takeoffs and landers. Nevertheless, we believe that the stepping-stone approach to bringing products to market will make us profitable, "Carrier said. Because AeroMobil 4.0 will rely on existing runways and provide a familiar way of flying - horizontal takeoff - the company believes consumers will adapt faster.
Ubuntu is betting on vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. In 2017, the carpooling company announced the launch of Uber Air, an air taxi service that will be launched in just four years. By 2023, the company said it would "share and multimodal transport between suburbs and cities, and ultimately within cities". Dallas, Los Angeles and an undetermined international market were selected as pilot sites. The company produced a fantastic video of Uber Air imagining its future, showing a woman on her way home from work on what the company calls a "vertical takeoff and landing aircraft" with a vertical takeoff and landing device. "Three of them live in the suburbs. She came home just in time for dinner"
Ubuntu envisions a world in which daily commuting is no longer a consideration for homebuyers. Cities and suburbs have been redesigned. The reasonable radius around the city where commuters want to live will expand, so the commute from Palo Alto to Monterrey, California, will be shortened from 90 minutes to 15 minutes. "If people can take this kind of transportation, they can choose to live farther away," Lineberger said. When the woman in the Uga video was flying in a vertical takeoff and landing plane, she took out her laptop to work. "The quality of life in suburban and urban areas will improve," Lineberger said of our future flying cars. Because people don't have to drive, they will have more time for "work and leisure".
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