Hoverbikes

[nivek]

Dubai Cops Chase Criminals on Futuristic Hoverbikes

This week the Dubai Police unveiled their new criminal-chasing manned hoverbikes. They’re so cool, people may want to speed just to get pulled over (or hovered over) by one.

RT reports that the police hoverbikes were unveiled this week at the GITEX(Gulf Information Technology Exhibition) Technology Week held in Dubai. They’re made by the Russian drone manufacturer Hoversurf and are based on the company’s Scorpion 1 single-seat aircraft platform.

The electric-power craft has four propellers that can lift it to 5 meters (16 feet) in altitude while carrying an armed police officer weighing up to 300kg (662 lbs.) who can chase down getaway cars and speeders at up to 70 kph (43 mph) for 25 minutes on a full charge. (A gas-powered option will keep it aloft for up to an hour). That may not seem fast enough, but the hoverbike never gets stuck in traffic jams. It can also be operated remotely without a driver onboard.

Not surprisingly, the Hoversurf was designed for extreme sports enthusiasts and gets its name from its two modes – hovering motionless in place or surfing on waves of air. The website also shows its two-seat craft, drone taxi and cargo drone, but no information on pricing for these nor the Hoversurf in dollars, rubles or Arab Emirate Dirhams.

Not that price matters to Dubai – the city earlier this year put Robocops on the streets, has expensive sports cars for police cars, and police representatives at the convention were reportedly also looking at electric smart motorcycles and self-driving police vehicles that can carry and release a drone for surveillance and pursuit.

 

[August]

Imagine the carnage with 100,000 of these flying around every day. Bit like flying cars I do not see it happening. But just for the Police maybe. Like in this Hollywood scene.

 

[Dr_Doom]

Colin Furze is great haha.

 

[Toroid]

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