Real or fake? Rotor-board flying down the road

Person standing on a multi-rotor flying platform hovering above a night-time road

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv5JQnmD1Yk

Personal multi-rotor craft — sometimes called rotor-boards or manned drones — use several electric motors and propellers to lift a standing pilot a short distance above the ground.

At low altitude the vehicle trades battery mass and control complexity for the spectacle of road-level flight; real builds rely on distributed thrust and pilot input rather than cinematic CGI.

Wednesday April 28th 2021