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

Hi Alex,

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> From: its [mailto:its-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Alexandre Petrescu
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2019 3:47 AM
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> Subject: Re: [ipwave] Flying cars and taxi one step closer to reality
> 
> Impressive,

Thanks.

> 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 :-)

Already been done, and a long time ago (Lunar Landing Research
Vehicle (LLRV) - 1969):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSlaYfxklm4

Fred

> 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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