Google’s Larry Page is pitting two startups against each other in a race to build flying cars
Jun09
on June 9, 2016
at 12:52 pm
Posted In: Aerial vehicles, Around the Web, Flying cars, Gadgets, Google, Kitty Hawk, larry page, Zee.Aero
Between two-legged robots, tech for cities of the future and self-driving cars, Google’s parent company Alphabet certainly has its fingers in many gee-whiz pies. Bloomberg Businessweek reports that its leaders’ ambitions don’t stop there. The publication’s new piece reveals that, for years, Google co-founder Larry Page, has been quietly funding two startups that are working on developing flying cars, which can take off vertically and transport an individual to their destination by zooming through the skies. To be clear, it’s more accurate to describe these as electric personal aerial vehicles. Page has funded Zee.Aero with more than $100 million since…
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