Re: [ipwave] Flying cars and taxi one step closer to reality

Impressive,

The kind of thrill seeing these videos is similar to seeing (manned)
first plane vertical take-offs.

Airbus also featured air taxi ambitious concepts (cartoons) on youtube 
since almost two years.

A company named AKKA in Europe proposes a similar concept of more of a 
plane (horizontal take-off) which self-... flies.

The Dubai air taxi did fly a year ago, but there was no human inside, so 
one legitimately wonders whether it could actually carry that much weight.

The new thing about the boeing video is that we see larger propellers 
and a dummy body inside (hopefully weighted).  It seems much closer to 
implementations.  Impressive.

The next step would be to see a human take responsibility of sitting on 
the drone while lifting a few meters above ground.  Like in what they 
did with first elevator in NYC, first man in first plane, bridge 
engineer first walk on bridge, agency director first liftoff towards 
first man in space, etc.  Until then one still doubts :-)

Remark, contrary to the self-piloting(?) air taxies, the challenge for 
self-driving cars is to see a car, or a group of cars, on the road 
_without_ humans inside.  One did see drivers with hands off the wheel, 
drivers on passenger seats (nobody on driver's seat), etc.

Alex

Le 23/01/2019 à 16:46, Templin (US), Fred L a écrit :
> Hi, lately we have been talking quite a bit about flying cars and taxis in a
> theoretical sense, but today Boeing has issued a public announcement
> showing that they are one step closer to reality. Here is your air taxi for
> the urban air mobility environment:
> 
> https://www.yahoo.com/news/boeing-passenger-air-vehicle-prototype-111551329.html
> 
> Thanks - Fred
> 
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