- Airspeeder, founded in 2016, wants to be the “world’s first electric flying car race,” CEO Matt Pearson told Insider.
- For many forms of transportation, racing has been a venue for relatively unrestricted development – leading to both safety and performance improvements in cars, airplanes, and the like.
- “The mission is really to be the race that creates the ultimate flying car,” Pearson told Insider. “It’s not just an innovation project, but this is about creating a race that ultimately will deliver vehicles for everyone.”
By now, if 1960s sci-fi is to be believed, we would have our meals in pill form, a healthy and happy society, robot butlers, and flying cars to take us to and from work. That’s not exactly the case, but the last point is closer to reality than you think.
While myriad flying car concepts are revealed every year, a project called Airspeeder is nearer to the skies than most. Airspeeder CEO Matt Pearson revealed the project with a realistic but sadly hollow scaled model of the final racer at the 2019 Goodwood Festival of Speed with a simple idea: to be the first flying car race series, and let others worry about creating the “road-going” versions.
Airspeeder, founded in 2016, is there to be glamorous and show the world that not only are flying cars real, but they’re coming quickly. Insider talked with Pearson about where Airspeeder is now, and how close we are to seeing a flying race car series.
