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Early in 2025, people were captivated by a Chinese electric car capable of hopping over potholes in the road. Topping that, there’s an American electric vehicle designed to do something even more ambitious: rise into the air and fly over obstacles entirely. The company behind it is California-based Alef Aeronautical.
Alef’s flying car concept represents a bold leap toward a long-imagined future of personal aerial mobility. While practical, widespread flying cars remain a distant prospect, projects like this push the boundaries of what’s possible and keep the dream alive. Whether or not such vehicles ever become commonplace, the ambition on display is genuinely exciting, offering a tantalizing glimpse of where transportation innovation might one day lead.
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The shyster man-bun appears to be selling a drone draped in a car-like skin. The “car” has no apparent access points or door seams. Not so handicap accessible. You can see better than 6-8 inches under the skirt of the “car”. Add this to the fact it has to be light enough to fly or hover as the case may be and you have a “car” that doesn’t stand a chance of passing any of the NHTSA crash evaluations…that is unless the passenger compartment is a simple carbon fiber sphere.