Flying taxis take off at Paris Airshow • FRANCE 24 English
it’s not a bird It’s not a plane No it’s a flying taxi And soon the sci-fi means of transportation will be a reality These sleek machines are currently on display at the Paris Air Show at Le airport and change is in the air I think the industry for these aircraft is going to be very very large Hard to predict This is day one Day one of of a new industry It’s like the first Boeing 737100 and it’s 1964 and we’re trying to predict how big this industry will be Air taxis will be used for 15 to 20 minute trips at first at a maximum altitude of 3,000 m They take just 15 minutes to charge and carry up to four passengers And that’s not counting a pilot because there isn’t one Similarly to self-driving cars these machines are navigated with the help of AI We understand that this is different There’s no pilot on board We’re all used to having pilots and other personnel on every journey with us So it is on us to make sure that we’re designing this aircraft to the highest safety levels as possible Flights will be monitored by a human being on the ground though Archer for its part already has contracts with companies in the United Arab Emirates Ethiopia and Indonesia to launch its vehicles Whisk anticipates that its taxis will be operational by the end of the decade in US cities including Houston Long Beach and Miami
Two companies are showing off what they consider to be the future of transportation at this year’s Paris Air Show – flying taxis. The electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles are getting ready to accept their first fares, and perhaps sooner than you think, reports Simon Moritz.
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11 comments
Hopefully it'll be cheaper than an ambulance in the US.
They will be falling off like manna
I hope it’s economical in the USA
so its like an helicopter….
Would have been nice to hear range and electricity consumption.
15’ regards time sounds awesome!
Is this made by boing?
Air taxi = population control device 😊
So who do you tip on journey completion?
Weren't you allowed to record the noise levels during hover and cruise flight?
They finished playing Cyberpunk before it was cool. Corp life is best life.
getting them to fly is the easy part the hard part is getting the legal approval and insurance to do it over cities
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