Airbus wants to make autonomous flying taxis by this time next year
Aug18
Airbus, the second largest aeronautics company in the United States (behind Boeing) envisions a future of flying taxis operated by artificial intelligence. The ambitious plan sounds almost laughable when it reveals that it could begin testing as early as 2017, but then you remember that whole part about being the second largest aeronautics company in the US and the fact that most of the technology to do this already exists. Passengers looking for an autonomous taxi ride would book a seat on a zenHop ‘City Airbus’ drone and proceed to a zenHub helipad. From the helipad, they’d be flown to…
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