Digital music legend Jean-Michel Jarre turned the first-ever passenger to journey in KleinVision’s groundbreaking flying automobile in a transfer the corporate known as “a brand new period of transportation with a contact of magic.”
That is in keeping with Stefan Klein, an inventor, pilot and the Founder and CEO of KleinVision. The corporate’s AirCar, which transforms from a sports activities automobile right into a airplane in minutes, was licensed to fly in 2022 and its proprietors reportedly hope to deliver it to market inside a yr.
“We’re bridging the hole between the highway and the sky, giving automobiles the liberty they symbolized 50 years in the past,” Anton Zajac, co-founder of KleinVision and ESET, mentioned in a press launch.
Jarre has been backing cutting-edge applied sciences because the Nineteen Seventies, from experimenting with trailblazing {hardware} within the studio, to paving a path ahead for live performance audiovisual tech and in the end altering the best way stay reveals are skilled. Furthermore, his early views on society’s embrace of AI demonstrated his prescient tendencies again in 2018.
Now, Jarre is taking one other leap into the longer term after his historic journey within the revolutionary flying automobile.
“One second you converse to the driving force, and subsequent, you’re up there within the air—an incredible expertise!” he mentioned after finishing two flights within the AirCar at Slovakia’s Piešťany Airport.
Watch footage of Jarre’s flight under.
