Ho Chi Minh City plans to test flying cars

(Dan Tri) - Ho Chi Minh City will test drone services to develop low-altitude economy. These include drones for rescue, cargo transport, passenger transport, and flying cars.

The Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee has just reported on the implementation of Resolution 57 of the Politburo and Resolution 71 of the Government related to breakthroughs in science and technology development, innovation and national digital transformation. In particular, low-level economic development is one of the key contents of Ho Chi Minh City in the period of 2025-2030, with a vision to 2045.

To achieve this goal, Ho Chi Minh City will establish a free and controlled testing space for technological solutions and drone management systems. The city will form a controlled testing area for drones on the basis of simplifying flight management and flight licensing procedures.

Drone model on display at the exhibition to welcome the 1st Ho Chi Minh City Party Congress (Photo: Hoang Quy).

The locality also promotes research and development (R&D), design and production of unmanned aerial vehicles. This is to master basic and core technologies such as hardware, software, facilities and management infrastructure.

In the coming time, Ho Chi Minh City will test application services and exploit unmanned aerial vehicles. These include the fields of smart agriculture ; urban security and order monitoring; transportation and delivery; relief, rescue, and passenger transport (flying cars, flying motorcycles, etc.); and establish and test operate a system for managing and coordinating unmanned aerial vehicles.

Regarding the low-level economic sector, Ho Chi Minh City recommends that the Government soon issue a low-level economic development project to create conditions for Ho Chi Minh City to implement.

Ho Chi Minh City also proposed the Government and the Prime Minister to allow a pilot co-investment sandbox mechanism. In which, the city will co-invest with Ho Chi Minh City National University and local universities to build shared infrastructure (R&D laboratories, computing infrastructure using artificial intelligence), and build new technology testing areas.

To improve the legal framework and enhance the effectiveness of high-tech policies, the city recommends that the Government amend incentive regulations to closely link them with businesses' performance commitments. At the same time, regulations need to regularly update the high-tech list, perfect the high-tech park model associated with a synchronous innovation ecosystem, and increase decentralization to localities.

Since the end of 2024, Ho Chi Minh City has passed a resolution stipulating criteria, fields, and content to support controlled testing of new technology solutions within the scope of high-tech parks and concentrated information technology parks.

The resolution of Ho Chi Minh City is applied to technological solutions related to drones and self-driving cars.

For the unmanned aerial vehicle participating in the test, Ho Chi Minh City has proposed a number of features and technical specifications that need to be met. In particular, the maximum take-off weight of the vehicle is 70kg, maximum flight speed is 100km/h. The test will be carried out from 7am to 5pm.

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