VW Levitating Car

Volkswagen held a competition for input into revolutionary auto design. What you will see is the winning design from a girl in China - she looks to be about 16. This not only shows her amazing creativity, but it's also a strong indication of the competition the western world can expect from China in the decades ahead. They will be our next world power for sure. Either way, this is amazing! Wonder what other parts of the world this could work in.

Here's another thread on it.

Really a cool find though, glad you shared it! I forgot all about it. I think Johnny Anonymous once said that he was pissed there weren't flying cars yet, and I am inclined to agree. Mr. Anonymous probably wasn't that crass though. Domo is crass, Johnny is class.

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Is this real!? I told my friend yesterday....I sure wish we had flying cars.... It looked cgi tho!

My son that is 7 said, that's real mom...I know it!!

Oh goodness I hope this is real, movies of the future always show a flying car!! I want one!

Peace and love and thanks for sharing!
-nat the crazed cat-

Thats fake right?

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I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn...... (rolls eyes)......

That looks fake to me, but if it ever does become real, I WANT ONE!

If that had been an American commercial we wouldn't have known whether it was for Jeans, Skittles, Budweiser, or VW until the very end...

In other words I enjoyed it, thanks for posting

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The design is real, but the car depicted in the video is not truly levitating... not yet, anyway.

Originally posted by natalia
Is this real!? I told my friend yesterday....I sure wish we had flying cars....

There is this one

It's an idea, want to be the next one?

As depicted in a video simulation, the Hover Car is a puck-shaped vehicle that rides on edge, scooting through narrow Chinese back streets like a Roomba vacuum cleaner.

NYTimes Source

But I love the concept.

From a Forbes article...this guy is right!

Contrast Detroit to Beijing and you see how wacky early-stage capitalism can be. Volkswagen’s People’s Car site started soliciting ideas for the future of automobiles from the Chinese public last year. To date, they have received more than 119,000 ideas and 33 million hits. The Hover Car was one of three finalists in the competition, but the popularity of the campaign has led the company to extend it indefinitely. The win here is not just the ideas generated, but the engagement of consumers with the brand. VW may never release a puck shaped floating car, but the Chinese are more likely to buy whatever the company produces because they were asked to dream of it.

Here’s a radical idea, maybe American car companies should be asking, too.

I concur!!

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That's super interesting!!! But the price.....

Yikes!!!!

Flying cars would be flipping awesome!! They just need to make them affordable for us poor folk!

Peace and love
-nat the translucent cat-

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Thanks for that link friend!!

So neat looking!!!

Peace and love
-nat the wild cat-

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I doubt it will ever happen, at least not with this type of design. The entire infrastructure would need to be changed and the safety risks would be astronomical. Imagine if one got bumped into at speed, knocking it off the magnetic road. It would zoom fast and far before friction and gravity could slow it down.

For now you will all have to wait until I decide it's time to unveil the perfect personal transportation device (I call it the PTD) that my genius created (I keep him locked in the basement). It's good to have a pet genius.

Originally posted by CLPrime
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The design is real, but the car depicted in the video is not truly levitating... not yet, anyway.

Right we all should have know that when they said it works by interacting with minerals in the ground (which could never work) and then it takes a high bridge.

www.snopes.com...

Originally posted by natalia
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That's super interesting!!! But the price.....

Yikes!!!!

Flying cars would be flipping awesome!! They just need to make them affordable for us poor folk!

Peace and love
-nat the translucent cat-

IT would be the cheapest car on the planet, if you go with the idea.

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The entire infrastructure would need to be changed and the safety risks would be astronomical. Imagine if one got bumped into at speed

That's the very first thing I thought of when watching the vid

Intelligence level and pursuits of 16 year old in China:
Create future, world changing technologies.

Intelligence level and pursuits of 16 year old in North America:
Attempt high score on online game as though it is a real life achievement. Download movies illegally.

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... the safety risks would be astronomical. Imagine if one got bumped into at speed, knocking it off the magnetic road. It would zoom fast and far before friction and gravity could slow it down.

Especially if it was to have a top speed similar to the Maglev -- 430 km/h.
I'm also having fun picturing one reaching escape velocity....

It's good to have a pet genius.

Always remember to have your pets spayed or neutered.

This one's legit, with a little more Star Wars speeder potential than a carplane.