Xpeng officially becomes first to market with its flying car, but getting behind the ‘wheel’ of the X2 is a completely different story.
  • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    11 days ago

    Incoming Chinese carmaker Xpeng

    Australian firm Pegasus Aerospace Corp received airworthiness certification from CASA for its driveable Pegasus E flying police car last year

    you would need a pilot’s licence – not simply a car licence – to be able to eventually fly the X2 in Australia.

    likely to be bungled in red tape for some time before it could take to the skies

    We can take orders… you can secure one with a fully refundable $100 deposit.

    So I guess a more accurate headline would be this:

    “Australia’s” “first” “flying car” “now” “on sale.”

  • TheOSINTguy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    7·
    11 days ago

    I don’t see any wheels, I bet it’s controlled by a yoke or stick, it has 4 copters.

    This is a drone, not a car

    • ouRKaoS@lemmy.todayEnglish
      111·
      11 days ago

      You can only call it a drone if it’s from the Droné region of France.

      This is just a sparkling quadcopter.

    • dev_null@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      11 days ago

      A drone is an unmanned vehicle, e.g. SpaceX drone boats serving as mobile landing pads, Ukrainian drone boats carrying explosives, drone research submarines, ground drones for mine defusal, etc.

      This is definitely not a drone. It’s a quadcopter.

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    11 days ago

    “They could buy five X2s for the price it would take to [replace the engine] in their regular helicopter.”

    Australian farmers aren’t buying million dollar helicopters to herd cattle. I don’t know what the author is smoking.