Google Shocks Market With ZweeProp Personal Flying Drone -  Fly to Work! (SAT PAR News Feb 09, 2015) Google has done it again, introducing technology everyone thought would only arrive in the era of the extreme future portrayed in the 1960's cartoon show, the Jetsons (1962-1988). A personal aircraft that vertically lifts you off the ground to a safe altitude (to clear buildings and antennas) then swivels the multiple propellers (6 independent blades in safe cages) to become more airplane driven. It is referred to as a drone as Google explained in a press release, because it flies autonomously. You select via controls or say the location (after an ID check). Using GPS, Google maps (of course), current flight information, and object detection, the aircraft will not only avoid collision with anything you can imagine (even birds - but not the speed of falcons) and get you where you need to go as the crow flies, but at 80 mph. The craft is rated for one person up to 240 lbs. It can go a distance of 67 miles. It uses a hybrid engine burning standard jet fuel and electricity - it even has solar cells (one version has bike pedals to add energy while you exercise). The flying transporter has a unique light system that identifies it as a Zweeprop - blue and white light that appears to shimmer and form an outline of an egg at night. For safety the light can be seen more than 10 miles away, and the craft comes with a parachute that - in line with the drone technology - automatically engages when the engines stops in flight or there is an impact. As is customary in these times, there is no regulation or system in place to handle such a device ahead of it s time, to be used by the common commuter. Australia has allowed 20 Zweeprops to be tested in small towns where there is little interference with other flying objects. Test pilots have likened the experience to riding a motorcycle in the sky.