Whether or not you feel excited about flying cars, they are coming, as shown through the first flight in the U.S. of Intel’s volocopter’s air taxi. Intel capped its keynote address at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show by letting an 18-rotor air taxi prototype known as the Volocopter VC200 fly across the stage. The Verge calls it less of a flying car and more of a “drone you can sit in,” but it is still pretty cool. The Volocopter 2x features a flight time of 30 minutes and maximum range of 17 miles, though the batteries can be exchanged to compensate for those numbers while the technology improves.
“What Intel sees in this technology is an enabling of a whole new market, with different segments and different partners,” Jan Stumpf, the chief of architecture for Intel’s drone group, said, according to The Verge. “But Volocopter is course now our biggest and most important one.”
Watch the video below to see the volocopter fly.
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