This Australian start-up is aiming to invent a new sport by 2020

While advancements in self-driving cars continue apace (here’s one that tackles icy roads), flying cars, or something like them, are looking less like mere flights of fancy — or so Australian startup, Alauda Racing, would have us believe.

The Airspeeder Mark I, developed by Alauda over the past two years, looks like something out of Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Technically a quadcopter — that is, essentially a large drone, like Dubai’s air taxis — the conveyance features a single seat for a human pilot and can allegedly reach speeds of up to 124 miles per hour and cruise at