PAL-V says it hired Italian designers to make the car’s design elegant, and the interior is full leather. The first 90 vehicles sold will be the Liberty’s limited edition, called the Pioneer with a pre-tax price tag of $599,000, it won’t come cheap that price includes $150,00 worth of options and the model is being marketed as highly personalizable. PAL-V expects to complete its certification with the European Aviation Safety Agency in 2022 (it’s been in the process since 2015). There will also need to be regulations about how high the cars can fly they of course wouldn’t be able to go anywhere near the 30,000-foot cruising altitude of planes, but there’s a big difference between flying 200 feet above the ground versus 1,000 feet above the ground (and everything in between)-and in fact, the Liberty’s maximum operating altitude is listed as 3,500 meters, which is just under 11,500 feet.
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there will need to be designated areas or even “lanes” in the air that drivers (or maybe they should be called pilots?) have to stick to to avoid colliding with buildings, trees-and other flying cars. That will involve a lot of regulations, clearance from aviation and city commissions, and careful consideration of safety measures, i.e. Speaking of which, big spoiler: the car isn’t allowed to fly yet. Liberty’s engineers will likely work on streamlining the process in future models. Switching between flying to driving modes isn’t just a simple matter of extending the rotors or folding them away it’s a process that takes several minutes. For comparison’s sake, the average helicopter can go up to about 160 miles per hour. In driving mode the Liberty can go up to 99 miles per hour, and in flight mode its max speed is 112 miles per hour. It needs a runway at least 590 feet long for takeoff and 100 feet long for landings. So while the car can hover like a helicopter, it can’t take off or land vertically. The Liberty is a gyrocopter, which means rotors on top provide lift, but they’re not powered by the engine a separate propeller engine on the back of the car provides thrust.
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