--- description: ... we don't need roads. A Toyota-backed startup in Japan is working to develop a flying car called Skydrive, which it hopes will carry a driver to light the Olympic torch in the 2020 Tokyo Games. Here, other initiatives to make Back to the Future II a reality. title: Roads? Where We’re Going … image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaf7a5eca943e7f33/6988d0b2656a3f07edbd053f/roads-where-going-flying-car-aeromobil.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Science](/section/science/) ## Science Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Aviation](/tag/aviation/) ## Aviation Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Roads? Where We're Going ... by [Kate Samuelson](/author/kate-samuelson/) ## Kate Samuelson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 8, 2017 10:26 AM CUT  AeroMobil by [Kate Samuelson](/author/kate-samuelson/) ## Kate Samuelson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 8, 2017 10:26 AM CUT UBER The transportation company is planning to test a program called Uber Elevate, an on-demand network of vertical-takeoff-and-landing electric air taxis for urban areas, as early as 2020. KITTY HAWK A Silicon Valley company backed by Google co-founder Larry Page is working on the Kitty Hawk Flyer, an electric aircraft designed to operate over water and doesn’t require a pilot’s license to fly. AEROMOBIL Slovakian company AeroMobil’s roughly $1.2 million flying car will begin shipping in 2020\. The gas-powered vehicle can be used on the road and in the air, and can fly from London to Paris in one hour. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4810481/flying-car-innovation/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4810481/flying-car-innovation/"},"headline":"Roads? Where We're Going ...","datePublished":"2017-06-08T10:26:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T11:01:58.571Z","description":"... we don't need roads. A Toyota-backed startup in Japan is working to develop a flying car called Skydrive, which it hopes will carry a driver to light the Olympic torch in the 2020 Tokyo Games. Here, other initiatives to make Back to the Future II a reality.","url":"https://time.com/4810481/flying-car-innovation/","keywords":["Aviation"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaf7a5eca943e7f33/6988d0b2656a3f07edbd053f/roads-where-going-flying-car-aeromobil.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Kate Samuelson","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/kate-samuelson/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaf7a5eca943e7f33/6988d0b2656a3f07edbd053f/roads-where-going-flying-car-aeromobil.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"roads-where-going-flying-car-aeromobil","caption":"roads-where-going-flying-car-aeromobil","creditText":"AeroMobil","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/aviation/","name":"Aviation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4810481/flying-car-innovation/","name":"Roads? Where We're Going ..."}}]}] ```