(3 Oct 2018) FRANCE MOTOR SHOW FUTURE OF URBAN TRANSPORTATION
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Paris - 3 October 2018
1. Various of "Flying car" from FLUTR (Flying Urban Transport) on show
2. SOUNDBITE: (English), Vince Ferrndon, FLUTR engineer
"It is a drone for transportation. It can carry two people. As I said, it is like a drone but a convertible drone. It means that the propellers can turn and it transforms into an aircraft. And thanks to this new technology it can fly further and it can stay in the air longer than a normal drone. We use this technology to fly up to 200 kilometers at a speed of 250 kilometers and stay in the air up to 45 minutes, plus 15 minutes reserve which is one hour."
3. Various of "Flying car" from FLUTR (Flying Urban Transport)
4. SOUNDBITE: (English), Vince Ferrndon, FLUTR engineer
"We have already talked to civil aviation in regards to the pilots licence. I hear what you say, most people, when you talk about pilot license and regulation, it really is a turn-off. They really don't want to buy because they believe it is too complex and too hard. But we are going to propose a simplified pilot licence. And we have already talked to civil aviation for this. We are not the only ones, most drone manufacturers want actually to propose the same kind of licence. So it is going to be something in between a car license and a pilot license. But definitely much more simple than a pilot licence."
5. Various of trams and cars in central Paris
6. Various of Paris Motor Show
Paris - 2 October 2018
7. SOUNDBITE: (English), Antuan Goodwin, car review editor, CNET's Roadshow
"Throughout the year we have been seeing more and more about flying cars. And the interesting thing about flying cars is that calling them a flying cars is a bit of a misnomer. They are kind of more like flying taxis in a lot of situations. Uber for example thinks that they are going to be testing these things in the next two years and they are going to be doing test flights in cities in the next five. So flying cars are definitely on the horizon, one way or another. It is just a matter of how long before we get them."
Paris - 3 October 2018
8. Various of Renault EZ-Go concept
9. Various of Renault EX-Pro concept
10. Various of autonomous bus made by Dutch companies Altran and 2Getthere
11. SOUNDBITE: (English), Ralf Bus, Altran director of marketing
"It is going to the roads, yeah. Very soon. So this is an autonomous shuttle, built by 2Getthere and Altran designed it fully for the customer 2Getthere. Next year, 25 of these vehicles will be running in Dubai to connect the mainland metro station to blue waters island."
12. Various of autonomous bus made by French company Transdev
13. SOUNDBITE: (English), William Levassor, Transdev Deputy director of Autonomous system
"The vehicle will be able to drive above 30 kilometers per hour on the autonomous mode. So that will be new. And that needs a lot of new technologies. A lot of safety. technology inside these vehicles."
14. Various exteriors of Paris Motor Show
LEADIN
How will we get around urban spaces in the future ?
According to exhibitors at the Paris Motor Show, flying cars and autonomous busses will revolutionise the way we travel around large cities, sooner that you might expect.
STORYLINE
This is a "Flying Car" from the Munich-based company FLUTR, which stands for "Flying Urban Transport."
The drone-like vehicle has four propellers, making it smaller than the 18 propelled flying taxi developed by another German company called Volocopter.
But how about a pilot's license?
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