An Australian startup has taken to Kickstarter to
reveal its plans for a flying car demonstration race and, eventually, a world
championship.
The company, Alauda Racing, has created a prototype
of its ‘flying car’, which in reality is just a large quadcopter designed to
fit a person. Dubbed the Alauda Mark 1 Airspeeder, the startup says it will
begin testing in the next few months ahead of a proposed demonstration race in
an unnamed desert in the middle of 2018.
The two Airspeeders that will take part in this
demonstration race will be unmanned, but by 2020, the firm hopes to kick off
the ‘Airspeeder World Championship’ with human pilots.
At the time of writing, the Kickstarter campaign had
raised AUD 4259 (US$ 3222) of a AUD 100,000 (US$ 75,653) goal, with the
campaign running through until January 11, 2018.
