The car will be controlled by a nice-looking joystick that, based on the video below, is quite easy to use. It has distance sensors that keep the craft from colliding with other vehicles on the road.
Video of an early prototype of the Aero-X can be seen here. The Aero-X seats two people and can hover up to 12 feet above the ground at speeds of up to 45 miles per hour.
The Hover Car is a two-seater zero emissions vehicle that hovers above the ground using electromagnetic road networks. California-based firm Aerofex is developing a hover vehicle called the Aero-X that has been compared to the speeder bikes seen in the Star Wars films. 'The creative ideas from the ‘Peoples Car Project. The People’s Car Project debuted in China last year. Volkswagen defines the car as an all-electric two-seat city car that hovers just above the ground and travels along electromagnetic roadways. For more hover car goodness, check out the video after the break. Volkswagen studied more than 119,000 ideas submitted to its People’s Car Project website and chose three concepts, the Hover Car concept being one of them. The German car maker challenged a few of the folks in China to submit their ideas of what the car of the future must look like. But little did we know that Volkswagen is already working on a hover car concept. So far we’ve seen a few of them, in movies that is. You must steer it, like you would a normal vehicle, but the only difference is that it’s flying in the air. This Volkswagen hover car is a concept vehicle that is used for personal transportation in the same way a modern car is employed.
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