This bizarre Japanese flying bike wants to bring air travel to the streets

Update March 29,2022: The company tested the flying motorbike in front of a live audience in Japan. You can watch footage of the trial below. If you’re a fan of sci-fi futuristic movies such as Battlestar Galactica and Star Wars, you’re already familiar with hoverbikes, or simply flying bikes. For those of you who wrongfully haven’t seen Star Wars, that’s the Speeder bike. It’s a flying motorbike used by the Stormtroopers, the army of the bad guys. Image: Disney Well, seeing hoverbikes in movies presenting futuristic and semi-human societies is normal, I guess. But seeing them in real life can…This story continues at The Next Web https://thenextweb.com/news/bizarre-japanese-xturismo-flying-bike