Google co-founder Larry Page has been secretly funding two startup companies developing flying cars.
Page, himself worth just shy of $37 billion, has poured at least $100 million into one of the companies, Bloomberg Businessweek reported.
But he didn’t want to be publicly associated with the companies.
Flying cars have been a strong obsession of technology-oriented people for at least a century.
With the proliferation of cars and planes, dreamers have been predicting a combination of both—an affordable small plane, easy to take off, and easy to fly—and many have attempted to construct one.
But, so far, all have ultimately failed.