The Italian designer Pier Paolo Lazzarini he is a regular at Futuro Prossimo. We like his vision, and we make no secret of it: of course, it is often out of scale with respect to current times, but it contains many ideas to inspire the future, and this is worth a lot. Today Lazzarini is working on a revolutionary idea concerning the future of transport: the Aircar. In summary? The flying car according to his reinterpretation.
How Lazzarini's Aircar is made
The Aircar is a futuristic 6m long module designed to accommodate a pilot and three passengers. Its monocoque carbon fiber structure makes it ultra-lightweight, while the four Rolls-Royce jet engines allow it to soar the skies at a maximum speed of 750km/h, with an estimated range of 3200km when fully loaded of fuel. Each of the four engines of the aircraft conceived by Lazzarini will be able to independently adjust its inclination and rotation, guaranteeing stability and great manoeuvrability.
Will we see you around?
At the moment the Aircar is still a concept, but Pierpaolo Lazzarini, founder of the studio, hopes to build a full-scale prototype by 2024, before launching the product on the market. If all goes to plan, someone will be able to say goodbye to traffic and fly to work with the Aircar within the decade. However, to achieve this goal it will be crucial to address several technical and economic challenges, and that's not all.
There are those regulations: it will be necessary to develop new regulations to ensure the safety of flying vehicles and people on the ground. Establishing adequate take-off and landing infrastructure may also require significant investment and well thought-out urban planning. In other words, "radical" technology requires "radical" efforts.
Overcoming these obstacles won't be easy, but if we succeed, the sky really is the limit!
