Dubai Police start training on flying motorbikes

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From https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/08/middleeast/hoverbike-dubai-police-flying-lessons/index.html

Dubai Police start training on flying motorbikes



By Tom Page, CNN
Updated 2:37 AM ET, Thu November 8, 2018

(CNN)The flying motorbike is back in Dubai -- and you could see the police riding one in the not-too-distant future.

A year after California-based startup Hoversurf showcased its hoverbike at tech expo GITEX in the white and green livery of the Dubai Police, the company has returned with a new model and evidence its electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vehicle might be, well, taking off.

Making good on a deal signed in 2017, Hoversurf has now gifted Dubai Police its first serial production unit of the S3 2019 Hoverbike and has begun training officers to fly it.

Brigadier Khalid Nasser Alrazooqi, general director of Dubai Police's artificial intelligence department, described the eVTOL vehicle as a first responder unit used to access hard to reach areas. He said he aims to have hoverbikes in action by 2020.

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[displacedtexan]

1. I still want the Jetsons' flying car, but this is cool, too.

I wonder how loud it is and what happens when a bug hits you in the face.

[Bongo Prophet]

2. Yeah, better in cartoon form than practical, perhaps

"I wonder how loud it is and what happens when a bug hits you in the face."

I wonder how safe it is and what happens when one of the propellers hits someone in the face.

I don't think I'd like to beta test those, fun as it looks...

[Boxerfan]

3. Been waiting to see a passenger drone....

But this looks like danger gurl city.

Open blades-no cages or edge barriers. And the rider perched on top of what is basically a huge 4 blade blender. What could possiblie go wrong?

[ProudLib72]

5. Numerous decapitations are worth it just for the coolness factor!

Can you imagine a cop coming after you on one of these? There is no way in hell I would stop, not when those blades are closing in!

[SKKY]

4. Being Dubai...

...they'll for sure hire some TCNs from the Philippines, India, perhaps Pakistan to test fly it and make sure it is safe. They'll probably hire 10 - 12, pay them 10 dollars a day, house them all in a 3 bedroom apartment, and then charge them 150 dollars a month rent.

[Ferrets are Cool]

6. What could go wrong?