Although there aren’t as many manufacturers currently working on flying cars as there are working on driverless cars, the number looking into getting us off the ground is growing as now even Porsche has entered the fray. Porsche has now joined the likes of Daimler, Italdesign and Volvo’s Chinese owner Geely as one of the […]The post Flying Porsche" appeared first on Pursuitist.

Although there aren’t as many manufacturers currently working on flying cars as there are working on driverless cars, the number looking into getting us off the ground is growing as now even Porsche has entered the fray.Porsche has now joined the likes of Daimler, Italdesign and Volvo’s Chinese owner Geely as one of the companies who think flying cars could be the best way of escaping our increasingly congested roads in the future. According to Porsche, cities the world over are struggling to keep up with rapidly increasing population growth and the inevitable overcrowding of the roads and infrastructure that creates. This already means reaching an airport through metropolitan areas can take hours, and the problem is only likely to get worse over time.At a press event held at Porsche’s Stuttgart offices, sales chief Detlev von Platen said: “There’s another dimension out there that is completely empty without any traffic jams. So why shouldn’t we develop something in this direction"” He went on to add: “Think about Mexico or Br...