Ola announced that the company was offering a new product to its users an electric flying car.
On April Fools Day and social media was flooded with memes, pranks and hoaxes. Joining in the fun were several startups and companies that come up with innovative ways to tickle everyone s funnybones.
For instance, Ola co-founder Bhavish Aggarwal announced through a video message that the company was offering a new product to its users an electric flying car. This flying car, called Ola Air Pro, has a dedicated website that was also accepting bookings. While it was clear to many that this was an April Fools Day hoax, some users were in two minds.
Ola announces electric flying car AirPro, but there s a catch
New-age materials were used to create the car, including carbon fibre and titanium, all sustainably sourced from F1 cars in Germany, fighter jets from the US and soft drink cans from Shivajinagar, stated Ola
Anwesha Madhukalya | April 1, 2021 | Updated 17:14 IST
Ola announces flying car but there s a catch
Bhavish Aggarwal and co pulled a fast one on their followers today. But considering Ola s track record, one should have expected it. The Ola founder, in a video shared on Twitter, announced the Ola AirPro. While it sounds like two MacBooks were mashed together, the company promised the one thing that everyone s looking forward flying cars.
PC: olaairpro.com
Unanimously, humanity decided that we will have flying cars by the year 2050. Why and how? We don t know. But we assumed that there will be flying cars by 2050. However, in 2021, there seems to be little hope for flying cars especially when we haven t learnt how to deal with pandemics yet.
However, recently, ride-sharing company Ola Cabs announced that they are now coming up with the worldâs first-ever fully autonomous, electric flying car called
Ola AirPro. Apparently, the flying car will drive itself, require no charging or fuel and land rooftop parking and the best part of all- you can rent it!
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Sometimes salt looks like sugar, and so when Ola s Bhavish Aggarwal says he s launching an electric flying car that doesn t need to be recharged, you might want to take a quick peek at the calendar.
Indian startups have stepped up April Fools pranks this year, following in the footsteps of Wall Street where press releases announcing outlandish product launches and fictitious news stories are tradition. Google is considered the number one April Fools day spoofer in the corporate world, having kept at it for nearly a decade now. The pranks include its Where s Waldo game on Google Maps which claimed that its search technology uses trained pigeons to rank pages, and fictitious job opportunities for a research centre on the moon.