Japan’s ‘flying car’ takes off with a person on board

A test flight of a manned ‘flying car’. Picture: SkyDrive/CARTIVATOR 2020 via AP

The decades-old dream of zipping around in the sky as simply as driving on roads may be becoming less illusory.

Japanese company SkyDrive, among the many “flying car” projects around the world, has carried out a successful though modest test flight with one person on board.