Google’s Founder’s ‘Flying Car’ Project Canceled

Co-founder of the US-based technology giant Google Larry Page, had implemented the flying car project called Kittyhawk many years ago. Established in 2010 as “Zee” for this job, the project, which was implemented under the roof of a company that used the name “Wisk” in the later process, included a car that can take off and descend in a vertical plane and can travel completely autonomously. Introductory video shared in 2017 flying carin 2018 as a prototype was shown.

Larry Page and his team cared too much about the flying car project and did their best to bring it to life. Even the aircraft company for this job Boeing A large-scale agreement was signed with and strategic cooperation was made. However, things don’t seem to be going well. Because, according to an official statement made by Google, the Kittyhawk project terminated.

It is unknown why the project was canceled

In the statement made by Google, the reasons for the cancellation were not mentioned. However, a Google spokesperson said the cancellation of this project does not reflect its strategic cooperation with Boeing. will not affect told. In other words, Wisk and Boeing will continue to work in the future. However, will these studies be a new flying car or will they appear as different projects? not yet clear.

The name at the head of Google’s flying car, Sebastian Thrun was an engineer. Thrun said in his statements in recent years that flying cars will reach people through services such as Lyft or Uber, rather than being purchased individually. In an interview with CNBC at the beginning of 2018, Sebastian Thrun said that the flying car they were working on was 5 years later, that is. 2023He stated that it would be available in . At the point we have come to today, all of these explanations seem to have been in vain…