通过智能手机预订的电动无人机从办公室屋顶上接人，缩短了几个小时的旅行时间，减少了停车和清除烟雾的需要。

这种对未来的展望正在推动日本政府的“飞行汽车”项目。主要航空公司全日空航空公司，电子公司NEC公司以及十几家其他公司和学术专家希望在今年年底之前制定路线图。

“这是一个全新的领域，日本很有可能不落后，”负责该项目的政府官员Fumiaki Ebihara说。

没有人相信飞行汽车很快就能实现。许多障碍仍然存在，例如电池寿命，法规需求，当然还有安全问题。但是世界各地涌现出数十个类似的项目。到目前为止，原型不像传统汽车，更像是大到足以容纳人的无人机。

飞行汽车被定义为具有无人驾驶能力的电动或混合动力电动飞机，可以垂直降落和起飞。它们通常被称为EVtol，代表“电动垂直起飞和着陆”飞机。Ebihara和其他支持者说，飞行汽车的概念有望比直升机更好，后者维护费用昂贵，飞行起来很嘈杂，需要训练有素的飞行员。

“你可能会想到'回到未来'，'高达'或'哆啦A梦'，”Ebihara说，指的是好莱坞电影中的飞行器和日本漫画中的机器人。“到目前为止，这只是一个梦想，但随着电机和电池的创新，它应该成为现实。”

谷歌，无人机公司Ehang和中国汽车制造商吉利以及德国大众汽车公司都投资了飞行汽车技术。日产汽车公司和本田汽车公司表示，他们对飞行汽车没什么可说的，但丰田汽车公司最近投资5亿美元与优步合作开发自驾车技术。丰田集团公司还在一家正在开发飞行汽车的日本初创公司Cartivator上投资了4250万日元（37.5万美元）。希望是在2020年东京奥运会上飞起并点燃火炬，但目前还不清楚它是否会实现这一目标。

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Will the flying car take off soon? Look at the Japanese idea!

Electric UAVs booked on smartphones pick up people from office roofs, shortening travel time by several hours and reducing the need for parking and smoke removal.

This vision of the future is pushing the Japanese government's "flying car" project. Major airlines, All Nippon Airlines, electronics company NEC, and a dozen other companies and academics hope to develop a roadmap by the end of this year.

"This is a whole new area, and Japan is likely to lag behind," said Fumiaki Ebihara, the government official in charge of the project.

No one believes that a flying car will soon be realized. Many obstacles still exist, such as battery life, regulatory requirements, and safety problems. But dozens of similar projects have sprung up all over the world. So far, prototypes are not like traditional cars, but more like large enough to accommodate human UAVs.

Flying vehicles are defined as electric or hybrid electric aircraft with unmanned capabilities that can land and take off vertically. They are usually called EVtol, representing the electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft. Ebihara and other supporters say the concept of flying cars is expected to be better than helicopters, which are expensive to maintain, noisy to fly and require trained pilots.

"You might think of'back to the future','up'or'Doraemon'," Ebihara says, referring to aircraft in Hollywood movies and robots in Japanese comics. "So far, it's only a dream, but with the innovation of motors and batteries, it should come true."

Google, UAV Ehang and Chinese carmaker Geely, as well as Volkswagen, have invested in flying car technology. Nissan Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Corp. said they had nothing to say about flying cars, but Toyota Motor Corp. recently invested $500 million to develop self-driving technology in partnership with Unibus. Toyota also invested 42.5 million yen ($375,000) in Cartivator, a Japanese start-up that is developing flying cars. The hope is to fly and light the torch at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, but it is unclear whether it will achieve that goal.

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