A start-up company named SkyDrive from Japan announced on 28th August, Friday that it has successfully run a test drive in its brand new ‘flying car’ with one person on board. The drive took place on Tuesday, August 25 that means three days prior to the announcement. It happened on Toyota’s test field which is approximately 10,000 square meters of ground. The article mentioned that the automobile named SD-03 is believed to be the World’s tiniest electrical vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) model which stayed in the air for about four minutes.

As per SkyDrive, the vehicle is intended to be a roadster exemplifying dreams and radiating magnetism, with the end goal that it will be invited into individuals’ lives and utilized normally. The organization included that they trust the vehicle will turn into individuals’ ‘accomplices in the sky’ instead of only a product. Furthermore, the company claimed that it will conduct more test drives in future with the SD-03. However, the tests would take place outside the Toyota test field this time ‘that is’ by the end of 2020. Moreover, the chief of the organization Tomohiro Fukuzawa communicated his enthusiasm for the fruitful trial and disclosed that they plan to take the SD-03 to the ‘next level’ by 2023.

Opening up in an interview, the CEO of SkyDrive stated that they were highly amused to have attained Japan’s first-ever crewed flight of a flying car in two years. He also disclosed that the company was started in the year 2018 in order to commercialize such aircraft. He exclaimed that they plan to take their social investigation to the next level by 2023. He believed, to that end they will quicken their mechanical turn of events and business improvement.

Moving on, he mentioned that they focus on making the world secure, safe and modern. He remarked that “We need to understand a general public where flying vehicles are open and helpful methods for transportation in the skies and individuals can encounter a sheltered, secure, and agreeable better approach forever.” In addition, he optimistically stated that they try to create markets over the world as a team with their accomplice organizations, so a metropolitan air portability society with airplane provided by SkyDrive turns into a reality in Japan as well as over the globe.

Repeating Fukuzawa, SkyDrive’s CTO Nobu Kishi stated that they will keep on creating advancements and procure type accreditation with the goal that sheltered and secure flying vehicle activity administrations can be dispatched in financial 2023. Humorously, the article mentioned that Elon Musk must be seething about another organization making a flying vehicle before him.

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