Reports reveal that Google co-founder Larry Page has been pouring some serious money into two startups based in California that are seriously working on flying cars. Page has reportedly been funding one startup, named Zee.Aero, since its creation in 2010, and putting money into another, named Kitty Hawk, since previous year. Page supposedly invested in the company, which is headed up by founder of the Google X special projects research division, last year.
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Flying cars have appeared in countless sci-fi visions of the future over the years, and several companies are working to make those dreams a reality.
The two companies operate completely separately, the report says, and Zee.Aero conducts tests at an airport that is less than an hour from Alphabet’s Mountain View campus.
In 2015 a second competing flying-car startup called Kitty Hawk, also began operations in its headquarters very near Google’s.
Zee.Aero’s website doesn’t give much away. It is now pursusing a “simpler, more conventional-looking design”.
The team at Kitty Hawk, the younger of the two firms, is comprised of veterans from Zee.Aero and Google’s experimental ventures.
Larry Page has an alias.
While it is known that both Zee.Aero and Kitty Hawk have been working on designs for flying cars, the details of their designs are unclear.
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However, technology is ever improving, and with access to better materials and autonomous navigation systems, it is thought that within the next few years we will have a self-flying vehicle that takes off and lands vertically.
