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Japan Is Getting Serious About Flying Cars
The country’s once-envied government skunk works has set its sights on speeding up the arrival of aerial taxis and trucks.
26 Jan 2019, 02:04 PM IST
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- Japan often appears stuck in yesterday’s vision of tomorrow. Flip phones are common enough that they’re cited as the exemplar of a phenomenon called Galapagos Syndrome, referring to the country’s tendency to stick with technologies endemic only to its islands. Another anachronism, Yahoo, remains wildly popular. Tokyo of the 1980s may have inspired the futuristic cityscape of Blade Runner, complete with fly...
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